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From: Mike Del Vecchio mdelvec952 AT aol DOT com
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 01:32:42 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: (erielack) Color of DL&W Ice Car
"DLW 7594 gon Kingsland 1909 X0178-2.jpg" - image/jpeg, 7594 (24bit)



Here's the class of gondola, cropped from the full image
....Mike Del Vecchio


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Rose
To: EL Mail List ; Mike Del Vecchio ; robt.a.mitchell@gmail.com
Cc: paultup@comcast.net
Sent: Fri, May 22, 2020 9:10 pm
Subject: Re: (erielack) Color of DL&W Ice Car

Amazing find!
So many things came together!
Warmly;
Tom Rose

> On May 22, 2020 at 6:11 PM Mike Del Vecchio wrote:
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> Best evidence we can find says that those cars were brown with black heralds.
> The photos show the side boards of a gondola of the same era holding up the first floor of a house near the old East Dover Car Shops. The house was built in 1908 by a local carpenter who bought lumber from the DL&W.
> If that house is ever torn down it would be nice to save a section of the boards. That's Verizon technician Lloyd Leone shining a light on the herald. After arranging for a visit to the house through official channels so I can document the find, the house it turns out is owned by one of my high school English teachers. She's never seen that part of the basement.
> This may be the only look we'll get of the colors of the pre-WWI Lackawanna.
> ....Mike Del Vecchio
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Mitchell
> To: EL Mail List
> Sent: Fri, May 22, 2020 3:11 pm
> Subject: (erielack) Color of DL&W Ice Car
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> Thanks to Paul T's excellent work cataloging the Steamtown negatives, I
> have a question about DL&W Ice Car 5990.
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> Were these cars boxcar red? I'm asking as the 'Lackawanna Railroad' herald
> seems to stand out making me think they might have been dark green like the
> wooden milk cars.
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> Bob Mitchell
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