So the question becomes, what did the cars look like when they came out, presumably enroute to being scrapped elsewhere? What did they remove: doors, couplers and draft geer, wheelsets? Were they sitting on flatcars? did the reclamation work occur indoors or out? Depending on the answer, you could consider a loads-in, empties-out operation (often done for open loads like coal) where the cars end up behind a viewblock. Use a pair of tracks, so you see them being moved in and out. As for the TOFC ramp, it was located at the west yard office off S Water St and consisted of a single track with ramp on the west end. I'm not sure about the 60's, but in the 70's it was used sporadically since Meadville was out in the sticks. The active ramps were further west at Sharon (Youngstown), Akron and Cleveland. The only use of the Meadville TOFC ramp I've ever come across was deramping a pair of Cleveland UPS loads off a TTX cripple destined for the Akron ramp. The trailers were then hiwayed to Cleveland from there instead of Akron. Paul B The Meadville scrap plant was known as the Reclamation Plant and that's what it was; it reclaimed material from cars prior to scrapping them. In the late 60's and early 70's there was a lot of activity there: Old coaches, baggage cars, outdated freight cars, Alco HH switchers and M of W equipment, machinery and cars were scrapped there. The place was switched daily, I think on 2nd trick. SMT The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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