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From: Mike Del Vecchio mdelvec952 AT aol DOT com
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2021 22:04:49 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: (erielack) DL&W June 1920 List of Agents, etc. pp 75 - 85
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Great freight car roster, Mark, thanks for posting.
Got a kick out of the subgroups of cars assigned to or accounted for by the component companies. There's one boxcar still labeled for the Sussex Railroad. Time to start looking for that number, and a few other notables on the roster.
Was hoping it would explain the early eight-wheeled cabooses on passenger trucks. I thought they were drover's cabooses since they were so long, but on this roster the numbers are among the normal road fleet of 4-wheeled cabooses. Attached is an example of one in a Steamtown collection photo, numbered 329. They're styled like the four-wheelers which was maintained into the steel underframe eight-wheelers starting at the 600s with which we're all so familiar.
Too, some renumbering must have been done over the years as I have some pictures of snow plows that were built before this roster, but the numbers don't appear, such as the 95962 which is a turn-of-the-century wooden Russell plow but in the modern boxcar-style paint and stenciling ca. 1940.
Thanks for sharing these ....Mike Del Vecchio


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From: Mark Schmitt
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Sent: Sun, Mar 14, 2021 11:28 am
Subject: (erielack) DL&W June 1920 List of Agents, etc. pp 75 - 85


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Freight Equipment in Service: 29,826 cars of all types. This list
reflects a part of the transition from all wood construction to wood
carbodies on steel underframes to all steel construction. There are large
numbers of 35, 36, 37 foot long boxcars. Of particular interest are the
car markings for various component companies and the seventeen drovers
cabooses remodeled either from passenger cars or freight cabooses. 1,300
USRA standard design cars (800 box cars, 500 hoppers) have joined the
roster.


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