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From: Paul Tupaczewski paultup AT comcast DOT net
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 07:29:51 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [REPOST] New York 1939 World's Fair & Hudson color
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From: Mike Del Vecchio
To: erielack@lists.railfan.net, paultup@comcast.net
Date: February 6, 2020 at 12:44 AM
Subject: New York 1939 World's Fair & Hudson color




Well gang, here's a low-res frame of the movie film showing the Lackawanna Hudson in color. The original 16mm film was badly curled and required years to flatten it enough for a scanner. The cracks from age and curling are smoothed over, but it's otherwise as it looks. When the World's Fair display train made its little tour of hour-long stops on the way to Hoboken, April 5th, the East Strou dsburg newspaper described the engine as follows: "... has a stainless steel trimming or apron skirting the center of the englne which is about eighteen inches wide. On this panel the legend "Pocono Mountain Route" is carried. The president of the company requested that the Pocono Mountain region be brought out prominently in the company's World's Fair display. Gold leaf lettering on the engine names the Lackawanna Railroad and
the same legend is on the rear of the tender in sllver Ieaf letters. Car handles, rails and all the fixtures are in brilliant stainless steel."

For such a detailed description of the type color and tones, the writer didn't mention maroon. But he did mention a very large crowd to greet the special on a Wednesday. A high res image of this and others and the story of the Lackawanna's role in the '39 Fair will be in a (near) future Block Line magazine. Will try to provide a link so all can see it.

Mike Del Vecchio


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Tupaczewski
To: EL Mail List
Sent: Mon, Feb 3, 2020 10:28 pm
Subject: [REPOST] Re: (erielack) Slightly O/T - New York 1939 World's Fair &


From: Raymond Wetzel < eriepacific AT aol DOT com mailto:eriepacific@aol DOT com >
To: erielack < erielack@lists.railfan.net mailto:erielack@lists.railfan.net >
Sent: Mon, Feb 3, 2020 11:52 am
Subject: Re: [REPOST] Re: (erielack) Slightly O/T - New York 1939 World's
Fair &

Actually, I was to the 1939 World's Fair too, in the Fall of '39, along
with my parents and (older) brother, although I can't say I remember a
thing -- not the Lackawanna #1151 (renumbered to #1939 for Fair) Hudson,
not the model railroad exhibit nor the GM Futurama exhibit. Having been
born in June 1939 I was no more than 4 or 5 months old at the most; perhaps
less. Been in GG1 cabs several times and can vouch for them being
cramped. I remember well the many trips over the years starting in the
early 1940's on the SAL Silver Meteor twice a year, starting when I was
about 3 and continuing for many years thereafter. Memories of those trips
are still quite vivid. My grandparents had a Winter home down in Miami
when that town was still nice, before the riff-raff invaded. My parents
would take my brother and me down there, some years for only a few weeks
and other years for several months. Those years the Silver Meteor departed
Miami in the early morning daylight. Changing to PRR power or vice-versa
was always fun those days, as just as you did, especially at those times
and especially on Miami -- New York runs, I would spend my time at the back
door of the observation and watch the steam switcher come up from behind
and couple onto the train to pull it away from the SAL E3's. If the rear
window could have been opened I could have just about reached out and
touched the number boards of those switchers. Apparently, the power wasn't
cut away to be changed but the passenger consist was shuffled to another
track having the overhead wires with waiting G's to continue north. Often
enough, I'd see races on the PRR anywhere between Washington and
Pennsylvania Station, NY between the train I was on and one on the adjacent
track -- sometimes one or sometimes two tracks away. On one such trip,
while I didn't know the class of PRR motor at that time, I knew they were
different from the usually GG1's that would haul the "Meteor." Only years
later did I realize that I had witnessed a brace of streamlined P5a's
pressed into passenger service, racing my train. The GG1 became so popular
with the kids growing up then, that Lionel put it on the front cover of the
first catalog they published after the War.

Ray Wetzel


-----Original Message-----
From: Janet & Randy Brown < jananran AT mymailstation DOT com mailto:jananran@mymailstation DOT com >
To: erielack < erielack@lists.railfan.net mailto:erielack@lists.railfan.net >
Sent: Sat, Feb 1, 2020 8:54 pm
Subject: Re:Re: [REPOST] Re: (erielack) New York 1939 World's Fair &

Ironically, I was there. We went to the Fair in 1939 ( I was seven) but I
don't remember the Lackawanna loco. I do remember the model railroad and
th working car ferry and how tight the GG1 cab was and the GM Futurama
exhibit of cars soaring this way and that on super- highways -- just like
today! I had already experienced a Florida- to-New York trip on the brand
new Silver Meteor where I spent most of my time at the back door of the
observation car ( my mother and sister and I had seats in the coach section
at the front of the car) so the passenger exhibits were old hat to me.

That was a while ago!

Randy Brown, remembering Peterborough, NH
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THANK YOU HENRY!! The quote," Looks maroon to me" was the exact quote
Randy Brown made, at the time of its showing on this list. Bob Bahrs

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 12:45 AM J. Henry Priebe Jr. < root@bluemoon.net mailto:root@bluemoon.net >
wrote:

>
> https://archive.org/details/medicus_1939_nywf_reel4_part3
>
> Look to the center right at the 3:24 timestamp. Looks maroon to me.
>
> Henry
>

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