> I just finished reading "Railroad Days" written by Louis C. > Langone. It has many old accounts of life and happenings on > the DLW/EL Utica Branch. One of the many interesting things > mentioned in the book is a Suburban Gas ( Suburban Propane > precursor? ) facility located in Richfield Springs, NY. The > author mentions cars of propane being spotted there. I'm > wondering if anyone could identify the type and size of the > tank cars spotted there. A link to a photo would be an > incredible bonus, even if not an actual Suburban car. It > would still give me the proper impression of the size and > type of car spotted there. I do have a couple of N scale > 33,000 gallon propane cars, but wonder if these are much > larger than the cars that would have been spotted at the > location in question. Lighter rail on the branch, tighter > curves, etc. all may come into play. Thanks for any help in > this matter. I enjoyed the book immensely! Oddly enough, there's a photo in Larry De Young's "EL In Color Vol. 2 - New York State" of a Suburban Propane car in East Binghamton yard - perhaps going to Richfield Springs? It's basically the big "whale" 33,000 gallon car that Atlas released in HO and N scales... - Paul The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------ End of EL Mail List Digest V3 #2495 ***********************************
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