nice NYS&W single sheathed boxcar
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Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
Hi List Members,
Too bad the image is only a thumbnail, nice NYS&W single sheathed boxcar. Looks a lot like the ERIE boxcar right next to it. Is this coincidence? http://rrmuseumpa.andornot.com/archives/permalink/50398/ - Claus Schlund |
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al_brown03
No coincidence: see Westerfield kit #4352.
Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla. |
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ed_mines
Erie controlled the Susquehanna the steam era.
Ed Mines |
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paul.doggett2472@...
Hi Claus They are basically the same car a kit for these 36' fowlers is available from Westerfield kits I have just built one the NYW&S version. Paul Doggett England |
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Benjamin Scanlon
It is said that they stayed in traffic into the early 60s possibly (?) on express traffic as the NYS&W had dispensed with its PS1 cars as discussed on the group earlier. |
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paul.doggett2472@...
There were only about 40 left in 1950 Paul Doggett England |
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Benjamin Scanlon
That sounds about right. From memory there were 11 36' cars left in 1959, but having recently sold just about all their their PS1s to the Monon and I believe, the L&NE, I suppose the NYS&W had little other choice.
The operation looked quite interesting, involving a train consisting of an RS1, MP54 combine, one of the corrugated Budd coaches with a boxcar bringing up the rear. I think some NYS&W PS1s had brackets for marker lights for that reason. I do not know if the 36' cars did too.
Regards
Ben Scanlon |
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Eric Neubauer <eaneubauer@...>
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I have NYSW 403-435 to MON 541-565 in 1956 and LNE
9051-9058 in 1956-57. Only NYSW 401-402 remained. The mystery is, what happened
to the LNE cars when they sold off all their newer equipment a few years later?
Anyone have 8 second hand PS-1s with unknown origins? The built date should
be 11-52 or thereabouts..
Eric N.
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Benjamin Scanlon
IIRC, the suggestion in an old discussion I dug up on this was that the PS1s that went to the L&NE went to the SOO ? Does that ring any bells?
Ben Scanlon London, UK |
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Eric Neubauer <eaneubauer@...>
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Yes, that's where the PS-1s they ordered new went,
but apparently not the ex NWSW ones. Those 8 cars remain the most annoying hole
in LNE dospositions.
Eric
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Benjamin Scanlon
I dug up the thread in the erielack mail list and discovered my error. Thanks Eric.
Disposing of the PS1s seems to have been a daft decision, not the only one in that era.
Ben |
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