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(erielack) Wayland ELHS activities today

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I gave a Power Point presentation today at the Wayland Historical Society in Wayland to commemorate the 70th anniversary this last August 30th of the Wreck of the Lackawanna Limited.  Well attended, good questions, and audience participation (still some folks around Wayland who saw the wreck scene as children).  It is the ELHS Archives Committee's intention to take the Presentation, add narration and several dozen unused photographs, plans, newsclips, etc., and offer it to offer it as a DVD for sale.
       Attendees also got to see the former DL&W caboose that was moved onto the museum property within the last two weeks (some pictures separately later).  There is no number visible anywhere on the caboose, exterior or interior, but the following email item from 2008 was found and referred to me.  The date (1975) matches with local thoughts on when this caboose showed up in Wayland: 
"Here is  just a footnote to the discussion on Gunlocke last month.  EL
sold them  a Lackawanna wood caboose #838 in July 1970.  I wonder what
they  wanted it for.  838 was the caboose used for many years on the
Laurel  Line freights in the early 60s.  It did get an EL paint  job."
 The interior has been made into a paneled room retaining some of its "cabooseness" (ladders to cupola, etc).  The Wayland Historical Society would like to paint and letter the car's exterior in a correct DL&W scheme--any in service photographs or plans would be of service and the ELHS would receive credit.  
MJC
 

 
 		 	   		  

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