RE: (erielack) A study of two ex-D&H SD45s

["Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>]

> Because of its original 6-foot gauge, the Erie was wide.  It 
> wasn't necessarily high.  The Jersey City freight tunnel was 
> a constriction; the K5s had their cabs lowered from the USRA 
> plans to allow passage, and I'm not sure the S-class could go 
> through at all.

The Erie was known for both its wide *AND* high clearances - ever see all those ads on the back of the Erie employee magazines showing gigantic industrial equipment on depressed-center flats?

Obviously, as you point out, it had its spots. So that begs the question - where did those giant pieces of equipment go? Were they routed to a different railroad before it got to the NY City area?



 
> Then, in EL days, much of the freight went Lackawanna-side 
> and the DL&W was neither high nor wide.

Hence all the undercutting that had to be performed on the DL&W side in New Jersey to allow tri-level autoracks and high-cube auto parts boxcars in the early 1970s!

	- Paul

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