Larry;

Can you confirm that these were ex-EL cars? If so, what is the
provenance? As described by you below, they do not appear in my Erie
Lackawanna freight equipment diagram book, nor do they appear in my
Lackawanna diagram book. I don't have an Erie diagram book, perhaps
Schuyler Larrabee could check. I'm curious, as if it is an ex-EL
car, I would sure like to see it as such (even if it would be, as
such, past the time-frame of the STMFC).

Thanks;

Jim Harr



--- In STMFC@..., Lorraine Kirsch & Larry Rice
<lrice@o...> wrote:

Greetings,

In a collection of photos taken at the recent Naperville prototype

modelers

meeting is this photo of Steffan Ehnbom's fine model...

http://www.pbase.com/dh30973/image/51606809

The roof on this model surprised me, as I've read that GN boxcars

in the

15000-15549 series had roofs with rectangular panels and these

roofs were

painted (or covered with car cement) black. Are these published

sources

incorrect and if so, what would be the correct roof reference/name?

As background, these cars were originally Erie-Lackawanna 78500 to

78999 and

79000 to 79199.

Thanks,

Larry Rice
Port Townsend WA