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From: "William E DOT Botkin" webotkin AT ecentral DOT com
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:15:43 -0700
Subject: Re: (erielack) Former EL Gon At Steamtown (FY08-056)
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Folks,

Thanks to Patrick and his report, I was able to model this gon using a P2K
undec gon and Champ decals as a close stand-in. The link shows my result.

Bill Botkin

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Subject: RE: (erielack) Former EL Gon At Steamtown (FY08-056)


> This gondola was acquired from Conrail by Steamtown in 1993. It is
> actually a DL&W gon (#68528) built by ACF in 1951. I wrote a short report
> on it and can send copies to anyone interested.
>
> Patrick McKnight
> Historian/Archivist
> Steamtown NHS
> 570-340-5193
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> 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
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> Michael Dye
> >
> om> cc: (bcc: Pat
> McKnight/STEA/NPS)
> Subject: RE: (erielack)
> Former EL Gon At Steamtown
> 01/04/2008 06:19
> AM EST
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> OK, I guess that I'll have to admit to ignorance, but why does this gon
> still have (apparently) friction bearing trucks? Judging from the
> stencils,
> these are the trucks that it operated with and IIRC, trucks that have been
> converted generally have the doors removed. 'Course, there's no telling
> when it arrived at Steamtown...
>
> Michael> From: paultup@comcast.net> To: erielack@lists.elhts.org> Subject:
> RE: (erielack) Former EL Gon At Steamtown> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:45:08
> -0500> > Yep, that's an ex-Erie Greenville gon - a.k.a. the Proto 2000 kit
> :)> > - Paul> > Probably nothing new or that interesting, but thought I'd
> >
>> share just in case. I took these on December 21, 2007. Ex Erie, yes?> > >
>> Joshua
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