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Justin Kahn
I recently bought one of the full-scale Lionel trailer on flat car sets, intending to convert it to two-rail. The trailers are painted very nicely in the Pacemaker scheme, but another O scaler is pretty sure that they were never used in train service. Who has definitive information on that?
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Jeff English
Jace,
Your friend is absolutely correct. The Pacemaker trailers were used for local pick-up and delivery in association with the box-car based, expedited LCL service that the Pacemaker name promoted. LCL shipments that started and/or ended their trip in a highway trailer were resorted and loaded into box cars dedicated to Pacemaker Service. During that period (1946-circa1954) NYC was not operating any TOFC that I'm aware of. When NYC did get into intermodal later (about 1960-ish?), it was FlexiVan, not conventional TOFC. Jeff English Troy, New York --- In STMFC@..., Justin Kahn <harumd@...> wrote: sets, intending to convert it to two-rail. The trailers are painted very nicely in the Pacemaker scheme, but another O scaler is pretty sure that they were never used in train service. Who has definitive information on that? IM, we give. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=text_hotmail_join |
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Malcolm Laughlin <mlaughlinnyc@...>
Before 1960 TOFC was not possible on the NYC because of clearances. There were many bridges east of Buffalo with 15'6" clearance. That's why we saw Flexivans on NYC and TOFC on the PRR. Later NYC began running TOFC to eastern points that they could get to because clearances had been increased for the multi-level autoracks.
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