Re: (erielack) DL&W Hopper: Locomotive Sand Service

[Robert Stafford <erielack1_@_yahoo.com>]

- --- Mike Oravec <MOEL_@_paonline.com> wrote:
> >  Robert Stafford wrote:
> > >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.
> >
> 
>   Would you elaborate on the equipment used?
> 
> > Tim Costello
> 
> In May 1981, I found Erie 61507 still at Bangor.  It
> might have been a sand
> car since CR was still using the locomotive
> facility.
> 
> Mike Oravec
> 
> ERIE 61507 was the EL company sand service car
assigned to Bangor. It was painted a dark green color
that had faded a lot with a small yellow, IIRC, Erie
diamond.
Equipment used to unload the car was a wooden plank, a
shovel and a wheel barrow all operated my Jimmy
Pensyl, the machinest. Jimmy dumped the wheel barrow
into a hopper and the sand was blown up into the sand
tower using compressed air.
Bob
> 
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