RE: (erielack) New EL car from Tangent Scale Models!

["Paul R. Tupaczewski" <paultup_@_comcast.net>]

Paul,

Yes, I know that, but these are ConAgra's cars - not EL's. I've never seen a
photo of an EL PS4740 (the Tangent car) on the B&P trains. Again, Bob
Stafford can probably confirm/deny this...

	- Paul




> Paul,
> 
> "EL in Color" V3, photo on p53 shows 5 green CH's on the 
> headend of a grain train at Bangor. The caption says 12/74, 
> so presumably it's the Great Lakes off-season and they've 
> come in from Chicago.
> 
> Paul B
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul R. Tupaczewski" <paultup_@_comcast.net>
> To: "'Paul Brezicki'" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>; "'EL Mailing List'" 
> <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 7:56 PM
> Subject: RE: (erielack) New EL car from Tangent Scale Models!
> 
> 
> >> Getting off this tangent and back to Tangent, EL acquired 130
> >> of these cars for service to ConAgra at Martins Creek PA. For
> >> the most part I gather they shuttled back and forth from
> >> Buffalo elevators, but what did they do outside of the Great
> >> Lakes shipping season? Did they carry grain produced in EL's
> >> Midwest territory, or did they supplement the SOO unit train fleet?
> >
> > By the way, for as much as I've read that "purchased for 
> ConAgra service 
> > to
> > Martin's Creek," I have *never* seen a photo of these 
> anywhere on trains 
> > out
> > of Scranton. Bob Stafford: Can you confirm this?
> >
> > I've seen PLENTY of photos of the green ConAgra cars, 
> though. Most photos
> > I've seen of these cars show them out on the west end, but 
> I assume that
> > they ventured elsewhere, too.
> >
> > - Paul
> > 
> 


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