Re: (erielack) DL&W Hopper Today

[Robert Stafford <erielack1_@_yahoo.com>]

EL Company Sand
About 1974 at Bangor we stopped sending our company
service 40 ft Erie box car to Ohio and begun to send
it to South Jersey on the CNJ via Lake Jct. I do not
remember anymore the station name I used to waybill
the car too. It was taking too long to go to Ohio and
come back. With all the increased business we where
running out of sand. You can not run the B&P with out
sand. The turnaround time via the CNJ was a lot
faster.
Bob Stafford


- --- Mike Oravec <MOEL_@_paonline.com> wrote:
> > Re: DL&W covered hopper in Leesport, PA
> 
> 02905 was one of the sand cars that according to the
> stencil was in "Dry Sand Service Between Scranton
> Diesel Shop And Phalanx Ohio".  It never was
> re-lettered EL.  Conrail had it at the
> locomotive terminal in Rutherford (PA) in 1980 where
> I saw it; the DL lettering continuing to fade away.
> 
> Here is my question.  Where did DL get their
> locomotive sand from before the merger?  Did they
> have one dedicated location like Phalanx O. on the
> Erie.
> 
> Mike Oravec
> 
> 
> 

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