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Erie Interchanged Cars
Revised 3/6/01
Baggage
Erie 200-221
Erie Express car, 200-221, Blt. AC&F 1950, 78'. Doors 8' and 6' in same sequence on both sides.
Photos of E-L 203 and 209 photographed in Southern trains, 1968 & 1967. Erie Lackawanna Historical Society collection.
Bethlehem Car Works Kit #831, express 200-221.
These cars in Erie service would have been green or later Erie two-tone green. E-L paint comes sometime after the merger in 1960. Kits of the 200-221 series are available from the Erie Lackawanna Historical Society for $55. The EL kit is #832, the Erie #831, with trucks #95A $10 extra, shipping $5. Contact Jay Held, 36 Coolidge Place, Hawthorne, NJ 07506. They are also available minus trucks and couplers from Bethlehem Car Works, using Easter Car Works core, $59.95.
Erie 528-534
Erie Express cars, 528-534, Blt. AC&F 1942, 70'
Erie 534 from The Warbonnet, 2/97, O H. Borsum, Joe Shine collection.
Erie 540-549
Car 542, Roanoake, VA, on a N&W train, 1962. E-L Historical Society Collection.
Built by Pullman in 1929 these included Pullman Top-equalizer six-wheel Commonwealth trucks. 69'3" long inside. 7' and 8' doors are opposite each other.
Bethlehem Car Works #830 is a model of ERIE 70' Baggage #540-549 ($59.95). This is a brass car side / styrene core kit.
Erie 575-597
Cars 580 and 595, 1966. Bob Wilt, E-L Historical Society Collection.
These are dimilar to 540-549 except their doors are opposed. Built in 1928 by Standard Steel Car Co.
Former DL&W cars which became Erie Lackawanna
Possible use after 10/60
DL&W 250-323, 400-429
400, Marion Ohio, July, 1962. Paul C. Winters.
60 foot cars. 250-51 were former DL&W 2066-67; 260-66 were former 2085-92, 306-317 were former 2065-96, \ 322-23 were former 2104-05, and 400-429 were former 2035-64. These cars were built by ACF and Pressed Steel, 1925-27.
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