Erie RR. Livestock cars...

[Train-O]

Pleas, I would appreciate any photos. of Erie RR. Stock Cars of the latest date.

Thank you,

Ralph

[wanswheel]

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/frt/erie67059adb.jpg

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/frt/erie67062adb.jpg

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/frt/erie9960adb.jpg

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/frt/erie9950adb.jpg

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/frt/erie9950bdb.jpg

[Train-O]

wanswheel,

I thank you.

You are a gentleman.

You gave me five photos. of wood and steel livestock cars.

I was looking in the wrong places, until I thought of 'Classic Trains' Forum.

I tried looking on the 'Erie RR.' web.-site, but to no avail.

You replied to to request.

Again, thank you,

Sincerely,

Ralph

[Deggesty]

Mike (Wanswheel) can find almost anything in the way of railroad pictures, and many of us appreciate his good work. I am not sure that he has time to do anything else.

[Train-O]

Thank you Johnny,

I appreciate when I get help.

I like to and try to help, if and when I can, too.

Ralph

[Train-O]

wanswheel,

I would like to be able to call on your services again, this time if you would please and if possible, E-Mail me One-prototypical color photo. of a PS-2, 2-bay, white colored, covered hopper with red 'BORAXO' letters and with the red, white and black 'Boraxo' can of hand soap, on the sides of the car.

And One-prototypical color photo. of a PS-2, 3-bay, red and white colored, covered hopper with red 'Bakelite-Plastics' lettering and white 'Union Carbide' lettering, on it's sides.

I thank you,

Sincerely,

Ralph

[henry6]

Wanswheel...great pic...but there is no location indicated.   The reason I ask is that I've looked for pictures of Campville, NY where the Erie stopped all eastbound stock trains to water and excercise the animals.  I live a little more than a mile from that location but have never been able to find pictures of the stockyards and trackage that once was there...any help or suggestions?  Thank S.

[wanswheel]

Ralph, the Rensselaer Model Railroad Society might have a picture of the Boraxo car in an article, but only members can view the article. I couldn't find the Bakelite car either. Sorry.

http://railroad.union.rpi.edu/article.php?article=5778

Henry, Campville was mentioned in a letter to The New York Times.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50615F938551B7493C3AB178CD85F4C8584F9

Mike

[Train-O]

Mike,

Thank you again,

You gave me leads that I can go on.

I tried the inter-net, but without satisfactory results.

I believe, it would be easier to look for a needle in a moving hay stack, than to find some of these freight cars.

I know, the scale model train manufacturers sometimes have restrictions on reproducing exact models, but then again they produce what they feel will sell, even if the item is not prototypical.

I, also know that these scale models are toys, but for the price of these babies, they should be more prototypical of the actual car, due to most manufacturers obtaining copyright permission and these railroads and railroad societies making a profit on reproductions of their rolling stock, etc.

Ralph

 

 

 

 

 

 

Take care,

Ralph

[Deggesty]

wanswheel

Henry, Campville was mentioned in a letter to The New York Times.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50615F938551B7493C3AB178CD85F4C8584F9

Mike

Mike, that is quite a letter, rebuking the newspaper for declaring that the cattle had no water for almost three days. Perhaps the writer was cautioned to get the whole story in the future. I did not see, however, any refutation of the statement about crowding in the cars. I imagine that everyone concerned wanted to make the most of the space available.

How long would it have taken to travel the 200 or so miles?

[Train-O]

Mike,

I did not at first click onto (NAHX 31060), now that I did, I must apologize to you for not thanking you, sooner, for the photo.

Thank yoiu,

Ralph

[henry6]

Mike the Wanswheel is always on the spot and his expertise and willingness to share is so much apprecdiated by all of us.  Often the best reason to be on Trains.com and Classictrains!