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From: "Paul R DOT Tupaczewski" paultup AT optonline DOT net
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:08:32 -0500
Subject: RE: (erielack) Consist (EL-era stuff)
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Unfortunately, I don't have any Erie sheets, but in doing some spring
cleaning around the house this weekend, I found a stash of EL train
order sheets that Bob Malinoski gave me a few years ago. I'll scan these
in as I have time (that seems to be fleeting as of late!)

Here's the first one... A Port Jervis Extra from Binghamton to Port
Jervis, unknown date. The notes on these scanned sheets are Mal's, not
mine. :) This one appears that it is a VERY early EL sheet, as there's
only a few EL cars in the consist, and many Erie/DL&W.

Train is led by the 7354, an Alco FA-1 (most likely painted EL
black/yellow). The second sheet notes that it has an Erie caboose
(888?), and "Caboose Radio No. 105" - does this mean it's radio #105, or
caboose #C105?

The next thing to note is the myriad consist of cars. My wife was
actually pretty fascinated by what the cars hauled (i.e., wool, fish,
peat!).

Unfortunately, Mal didn't comment on the columns, but here's what I can
make out:

Column 2: Reporting marks
Column 3: Car number
Column 4: Loaded or Empty
Column 5: Car Type (H=hopper, B=boxcar, G=gon, F=flat, T=tank, R=reefer,
C=covered hopper)
Column 6: Car load weight in tons?
Column 7: What's in the car
Column 8/9: Destination city and state
Column 10: Consignee
Column 11: Consignee location
Column 12: ??? Good question!

Note several times a location is referred to as "HARRMAN NJ" - do they
mean Harriman, NY?

A few notable line-items (in order as they appear)

BO 471733: Car of paper for the NYS&W's Lodi Branch
ERIE 7210: A flat, with garbled data? Could this be an indication for
"return to home location?"
Peat and fish cars to be floated over to NYC
NKP 13319: Boxcar of feed, what's the notification line for?
WAB 7002: Boxcar with tanks, for garbled destination
A whole slew of DL&W and Erie 50-top hoppers - apparently for "SJ
Coston," with no indication of what the load is?

Discuss. :)

- Paul




> -----Original Message-----
> From: erielack-owner@lists.railfan.net
> [mailto:erielack-owner@lists.railfan.net] On Behalf Of
> Schuyler G Larrabee
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 12:45 AM
> To: Erie Lackawanna List
> Subject: (erielack) Consist
>
>
> A couple years ago, someone came up with an EL freight train
> consist, the listing of all the cars in that particular train.
>
> Does anybody have a similar thing for an ERIE freight train?
> Or trains? Preferably (what the heck, I'm dreaming, you know)
> from the late 40's-early 50's.
>
> Hoping . . .
>
> SGL
>


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