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From: "Ron" rdukarm AT roadrunner DOT com
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:55:49 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) Early E-L Trailer Flats
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List,

Attached is a photo by Denny Mead of the Clejan car in wheel service at
Meadville. I'm surprised that EL left the handrails on the cars, as you
would think cutting them off would facilitate loading of the wheels.

Ron Dukarm


Subject: Re: (erielack) Early E-L Trailer Flats


> Erie/EL 7800-7849: Built by Pullman -Std (1956). These cars are Clejan
> French design cars and are suitable only for loading trailers (Plan Note)
> Named after Deodat Clejan, French designer and leader in European
> piggy-back technology. Only a few roads used Clejan cars (Erie, NH, SP,
> KCS). The New Haven Historical Society did a big issue on their Clejan
> Cars in 1986. Ron Dukarm talked about their later use as wheel cars in a
> Diamond article. (I vaguely remember seeing a long line of NH Clejan cars
> in Reading Pa, stored there back in the '80s.)
>
> EL 9499-9699 (DL&W 16499-16699): Surprisingly a lot of these shorties got
> renumbered EL. Rusty Recordon's RMC series in 2004 covered these and
> earlier DL classes well.
>
> Mike O.


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