Re: (erielack) Erie Three Truck Gon and Modified DLW Hopper (was Neat Ole DL&W Boxcar Pic)

[James Crump <w1ewn_@_yahoo.com>]

I have that book here and did find the caboose but not the car with 3 trucks - but I looked in the flat and gondolas sections.

Jim


- --- On Sun, 3/1/09, tonyhorn1_@_comcast.net <tonyhorn1@comcast.net> wrote:

> From: tonyhorn1_@_comcast.net <tonyhorn1@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Erie Three Truck Gon and Modified DLW Hopper (was Neat Ole DL&W Boxcar Pic)
> To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
> Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009, 1:21 PM
> Schuyler: 
> 
> I believe there were drawings for this car in a plan book
> published by Carstens in the late '50s or early
> '60s. This book also had plans for an 04600 caboose with
> Susquehanna lettering. 
> 
> Tony 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Schuyler Larrabee"
> <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net> 
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> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:31:44 PM GMT -06:00
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> Subject: RE: (erielack) Erie Three Truck Gon and Modified
> DLW Hopper (was Neat Ole DL&W Boxcar Pic) 
> 
> Eeeek!! Expert?? 
> 
> Yeah, well, whatever. There are drawings of this car in one
> of the magazines, right now I don't 
> have the information which one it was (I lost a lot of that
> sort of records when my un-backed up 
> computer crashed in late '07). The center truck has a
> sliding kingpin to allow for curves. I don't 
> know the entire series, but there were quite a large number
> of them. I seem to recall that they 
> were all gone by the mid-20s. 
> 
> And I'll stick my neck out on the hopper too. The
> DL&W added slope sheets to conventional hoppers 
> when the concept of covered hoppers came to pass, with the
> steeper slope sheet so cement would slide 
> out. I once had a photo showing the side of a car which had
> had those additional slope sheets, but 
> then they'd been removed; you could see the holes in
> the side sheets where the rivets had been. My 
> guess is that this car had been snagged for company
> service, for ballast as you suggest, with the 
> side outlets added to the hopper bottoms. 
> 
> The weathering on the hopper shot is wonderful! 
> 
> SGL 
> 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: Ed Olszewski [mailto:eolszew1_@_twcny.rr.com] 
> > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:59 PM 
> > To: EL Mail List 
> > Subject: (erielack) Erie Three Truck Gon and Modified
> DLW Hopper (was Neat Ole DL&W Boxcar Pic) 
> > 
> > Joshua, 
> > 
> > Thanks for the links to the boxcar photos. I poked
> around a little bit 
> > and found two photos that intrigued me. 
> > 
> > First is this three truck Erie gondola. Never seen or
> heard of a car 
> > like this. Can one of you Erie experts help me out?
> How about it Schuyler? 
> > 
> >
> http://www.boxcars.us/Boxcars_A_M/E/pages/image030.html 
> > 
> > Second is this Lackawanna open hopper with slope
> sheets added. I assume 
> > this was done to carry denser materials like ballast
> stone as opposed to 
> > the less dense coal. Is this a safe assumption or am I
> going down the 
> > wrong path. If this is correct then might this car be
> in MOW service for 
> > hauling stone? Paul T. any insights on this one? 
> > 
> >
> http://www.boxcars.us/Boxcars_A_M/D/pages/image061.html 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > Ed Olszewski 
> > 
> > Joshua wrote: 
> > > Never seen the LL tagline before: 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >
> http://www.boxcars.us/Boxcars_A_M/D/pages/image060.html 
> > 
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