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From: JJordan eltrainmaster AT copper DOT net
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:15:00 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) RV Drill vs. BJ Drill
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Hey guys-

The BJ Drill caboose looked like the attached picture even though many
other cabooses were used in its place.

-Joe Jordan
Train Nut Central
http://www.20thcenturyhobbies.com/trainnut/

At 09:54 PM 10/11/2010 -0700, you wrote:
>
>The EL Dunmore caboose assigned to this job was stenciled BJ Dril.
>Bob Staffordl
>
>--- On Thu, 10/7/10, JG at graytrainpix wrote:
>
>From: JG at graytrainpix
>Subject: (erielack) RV Drill vs. BJ Drill
>To: erielack@lists.railfan.net
>Date: Thursday, October 7, 2010, 6:57 PM
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>Hey Jim-
>
>When did they change the name of the Rutherford drill? In Erie Lackawanna
>days it was called the "BJ Drill". You noted it is the "RV Drill" in
>Conrail days. Did that happen when Conrail took over or when they closed
>the BJ Tower? Joe Jordan
>
>JOE:
>
>EL operating personnel listed the Rutherford Drill on operating forms as
either "BJ Drill" and "RV Drill"; no strict rule about that. That was
"Erie-side" railroading, a bit loose. RV was the telegraph call for
Rutherford depot, BJ for Rutherford Junction tower. I have attached a
track car line-up written at BJ Tower, and you can see what the operator,
John Tolino, called it that day. I have block sheets from BJ where Tolino
himself writes "BJ" for the drill. Other operators used "RV". I myself
wrote "RV Drill" on the block sheets when I worked at HX during the summers
in 71, 72 and 73. This was before Conrail came up with precise
alpha-numeric designations for each train. You say po - tah - to, I say po
- tay - to, Conrail called the whole thing off.
>
>Jim G.
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