From the archives at Steamtown the following letter appears: Bethlehem Steel Company STEELTON PLANT FROG & SWITCH DIVISION Steelton, Pa. February 29, 1956 Your Order WA-26380 Mr. G.A. Phillips, Chief Engineer Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co. Hoboken, New Jersey Dear Sir: We are sending to you under separate cover, parcel post special handling, for your careful inspection and approval, three prints each of the following drawings: General Plan No. 8 D.S. Crossings at Bridge No. 60 Drawing 145693 General Plan No. 8 (Enlarged Detail – 145643 Switch Point Plan – 124121 Movable Point Plan – 103370 Heel Block Plan – 187594 Rod Plan – 211475 Rail Plan – 211485 Kindly return one print of each drawing upon which you have either placed your signed approval or indicated changes desired. We wish to call to your attention pencil notes indicated with red pencil. Kindly advise with return of approval plans. Work on this order is entirely or partially suspended pending approval of these plans and immediate action is desired in order to expedite shipment. Yours very truly, SUPERINTENDENT WHG-KS Mill Order DB-32798 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is document 25 of 50 in a folder entitled: DL&W RR--Chief Engineers Files--7162 (folder 3 of 3)--Tracks in yard--Scranton, PA (1947-1958) Patrick McKnight Historian/Archivist Steamtown NHS 570-340-5193 We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.-Alan Bloom The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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