No, I won't call it a cabin, but I'll forward this to the STMFC so they
can comment on it.
Please, folks send your replies directly to Ron at
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Jeff English Troy, New York
Proto:64 Classic Era Railroad Modeling
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Interesting. I sent one message with an attachment (which I failed
to consider is probably a no-no with Yahoo), and lo and behold it
shows up as <two> messages on STMFC.
Well, I guess you guys are mostly clever enough to figure
that out, but just in case somebody out there didn't put two and two
together, there you are.
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Jeff English Troy, New York
Proto:64 Classic Era Railroad Modeling
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Good evening Jeff,

Both your mails concerning the ND cabin that the Danbury Railway Museum
recently acquired came through and I have contacted Ron regarding the
cabin car. Hopefully, I can be of some assistance to them regarding this
car as I was one of the contributors to the articles that Bob Johnson
and Gary Rau ran back in the middle 70's on PRR cabin cars. I will get
in contact with Bob and Gary and perhaps the three of us can come up
with some of the information that he needs. In 1996, working with John
Christy, I was able to furnish a lettering guide for their PRR X58A
class 50' insulated plug door box car which they finished restoring the
following year.

By the way, do you know anyone who would like to have a copy of an NYC
passenger car diagram book? When I was working in Passenger Operations
in Penn Center, Richard Decker, who was one of our car distributors,
allowed me to make a copy of his equipment diagram book. It is quite
thick with approximately three diagrams per page on 8-1/2"x14" paper and
has a roster in the front.

If you know anyone that may be interested, have them contact me and
something can be worked out.

Tom Olsen
7 Boundary Road, West Branch
Newark, Delaware, 19711-7479
Ph: 1-302-738-4292

Jeff English wrote:

Hi Tom

Regarding the NYC diagrams we have the Pullman Dover Straits at the
Illinois Railway Museum and perhaps that might be in the book since it
was assigned by Pullman to the NYC. If that is the case perhaps we
could reimburse you for copy of that info since we are always trying
to add any relevant info to the car file and history.

For the Danbuty caboose, we also have a bobber it IRM and if it would
be any help as you guys rebuild it, and are in our area, I would be
happy to make it available for any photos, measurements, etc that
would be of value to you. It is not yet fully restored but somewhat
better than your 'flatcar' so may be of use as a refernece. You can
contact me at my e mail or snail mail to Illinois Railway Museum, Box
427, Union IL 60180.

Bob Kutella

Tom;
Allen Stanley at raildata@... (Allen Stanley) might be interested
in a copy of the diagram book. He runs the Raildata exchange and trades
copies of diagram books. I'm sure he would appreciate a contact from you
about the book.

Regards,
Art Richardson
Clinton, MS

Good morning Art,

You can always tell when it is getting late. I crossed your email
address up with my reply to Bob Kutella's email on the SFMC email/

I will drop Allen an email about the roster and line drawings. This is
an old diagram book which was originally issued in the early '40's and
updated periodically by the late Dick Decker who I was fortunate to
obtain a copy from. This was one of the small perks that I was lucky to
get when I was working as a Supervisor (later Manager) Passenger Train
Movement in PC and CR system operations in Phila in the period
1972-1986. I believe that the period if time that I spent in that
office was the greatest period of my career as a professional railroader
and was a great help to my modeling hobby.

Thanks for the heads-up on Allen's Raildata Exchange.

Sincerely,
Tom Olsen
7 Boundary Road, West Branch
Newark, Delaware, 19711-7479
Ph: 302-738-4292
tmolsen@...

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