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From: "R DOT Dukarm" rdukarm AT roadrunner DOT com
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 02:23:27 -0500
Subject: RE: (erielack) Coach #1288
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List,

Attached is an article from the Buffalo Evening News of March 21, 1899
telling of a DL&W conductor who was blown off a platform while moving
between cars. I have seen several articles over the years of passengers and
trainmen blown off or falling off passenger car platforms.

Ron Dukarm


From: Janet & Randy Brown
Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 5:06 PM

As the American passenger car developed from open platforms to full width
enclosed vestibules, they went through a short period of "narrow vestibules"
which consisted of posts from the ends of th steps to the roof. They
supported diaphragms and folding doors at the top of the steps. Perhaps
someone on the Lackawanna christened them "skeleton vestibules?"





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