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From: Mike Oravec MOEL AT paonline DOT com
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:40:12 -0400
Subject: Williams Grove Update
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Thought I would take my Sunday afternoon walk over at Williams Grove
last week and check out the status of the passenger cars there. As you
can see in the photos, little has changed except the cars have further
deteriorated through vandalism, rust and the elements. When the foliage
is back in a few weeks much of the details will be hidden.

Williams Grove apparently got all of the Everett Railroad passenger
equipment sometime in the '70s. They still use two open-air cars (built
over flat cars) for their own passenger runs. The rest of the fleet was
left to some future restoration that never came.
There were also originally two wood, B&O ex-passenger cars in the
line-up. I noticed one is now gone; the other has suffered a major roof
collapse. (These were in B&O MofW service and don't know if they came
from Everett or not.) Next to the remaining B&O car is a suburban
Stillwell (ex-Erie 2191). Then there is also a neat little, short
Reading coach, with the side skirts.

By far the most interesting car is the last one in the line, a
Lackawanna modernized coach (ex-DLW 246). I think it's the last
remaining example of a 200 series coach. (In E-L days, this car was
even once used as a rider on Train 11 in 1962.) Both the Stillwell and
modernized coach were white-lined in an EL purge of passenger cars in
late '64. They were pulled from the scrap line in early '65 and sold to
the Everett for their nascent passenger operations. (The short line
wanted to offset the loss of freight revenue by running tourist trains
beginning in the Spring of '65, and that lasted until the '70s.)

So the cars continue to "survive" (if that is the word you want to use)
in 2008.

Mike Oravec



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