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From: "Paul Brezicki" doctorpb AT bellsouth DOT net
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:06:56 -0500
Subject: Piggyback Items
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The List is slow this week, so I'm posting a couple of items.

First, Paul sent me some materials from the Stoker, including a rough sketch
of Croxton showing "route of CX-99" more or less duplicating the exit from
CX of the A/CX-99 in the ELHS/ELDCPS calendar: depart the pad presumably
from the east end, proceed through the New Loop to turn west again via the
High Line to HX. This was a convoluted route compared with departing west
from the pad for a straight shot at HX, but the sketch implies that this was
perhaps a fairly regular occurrence. Can anyone confirm this was SOP , and
if so, when did it start, and did eastbound counterpart 2/NY-100 also
operate via the NL?

The other item follows up on our recent discussion concerning the ultimate
disposition of Erie/EL 8500-8524, a group of 85' ACF channel-side TOFC cars
leased from the Rail-Trailer Co in 1960. According to the ORER, the 23
remaining cars were returned to the lessor in 1975. There are a couple of
mysteries about these cars. Despite regular appearance in the ORER
(including data indicating repainting into EL at the rate of approx one per
year), photo documentation of these cars is lacking. The other issue is that
since Rail-Trailer went OOB around 1972, who took over the lease? I
suspected the cars ended up on ATSF, as that road acquired some secondhand
channel-side flats during its period of rapid growth in intermodal beginning
in 1976. I checked with some folks in the ATSF historical society, and it
turns out it did acquire 159 cars of this type (ACF-1960). 146 came from
North American Car, but they don't know the source of the other 13. Could
they have come from that 23 car EL group? We'll probably never know for
sure, but I think there's a good likelihood. In any event, the cars went
through Topeka Shops in 1978 and emerged as class Ft-96 in dark orange paint
and minus bridge plates (movement restricted to terminals with overhead
loading equipment). I have attached a low-res scanned print of one of the
NACC cars in the consist of CR TV-53; I took several shots of this train at
Batavia NY in June 1985. Examining the print with a magnifying glass I can
make out car# 292141. I have never come across another photo of these cars.

Paul B


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