Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Two New ELHS Exclusives
Erie and DL&W
Wreck Trains by Ron Dukarm Available through the
MAITLAND TOWER HO Erie Lackawanna Historical Society
Changing Times In the Garden State
Maitland Tower
Erie Crossing Shanty
The Maitland Tower kit builds into a model of the tower's initial configuration and can be modified to represent a number of other Erie west end towers. Maitland also broke up the block between Glen Echo and Cold Springs on the Dayton Branch and was used by the DT&I to issue trains orders. This served to extend the tower life more than anything else and remained in service well into the Conrail years. Crossing Shanty not included
Member price $5200
plus $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only)
Non-member price $6500
ERIE CROSSING SHANTY
This kit builds into a model representing crossing shanties located throughout the Erie west end.
This 100 page, five chapter spiral bound book includes 153 photos of Lackawanna, Erie, and EL wreck cranes and their associated equipment. Most of these photographs are being published for the first time. The book also includes 36 drawings and equipment charts. Ron thoroughly covers the complete roster of wrecking cranes, wreck trains, and wrecking procedures of all three railroads. Ron also provides the first ever explanation of Erie's mysterious Maintenance Of Way numbering system. Non-member price
Member price $1400
plus $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only)
Member price HO $5000
plus $8.95 s&h
Non-member price $1750
★ ★ STILL AVAILABLE ★ ★ DL&W Vestal, N.Y. Station
(US Funds Only)
Member price HO $5000 N
$1696
Member price $3800 (US Funds Only)
plus $8.95 s&h $8.95 s&h
Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Erie Steam Locomotive Diagram Book Book No. 2 (1944)
Books from
Erie Passenger Equipment Diagram Book Book No. 76, May 1952
DL&W Locomotive Classificaton Diagram Book Revised July 1st 1939
Erie Passenger Equipment Diagram Book Book No. 76, May 1952
$32.00 $24.00
$32.00 $24.00
DL&W Classification of Freight Equipment Corrected to May 1, 1952
Erie Lackawanna Passenger Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 15, Issued Aug. 30, 1966.
Erie Lackawanna Freight Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 78, Updated May 9, 1975
plus $8.95 s&h
(Book prices are non-member. Please allow 4-6 weeks delivery) (US Funds Only)
plus $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only) (Book prices are non-member. Please allow 4-6 weeks delivery)
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Order from: ELHS, Department RF Jay Held, 10-10 ELLIS AVE, FAIR LAWN, N.J. 07410 No phone calls will be accepted For information send SASE
N.J., PA & Ohio res. add sales tax. Outside US extra s&h.
ELHS membership at $35 per membership cycle. Cycle includes four issues of our magazine “The Diamond” and four newsletters with modeling
information. Separate check please. Send to: ELHS c/o Randy Dettmer, 290 W. Prospect St., Hudson, OH 44236
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Erie Lackawanna Freight Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 78, Updated May 9, 1975
Erie Lackawanna Passenger Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 15, Issued Aug. 30, 1966.
DL&W Classification of Freight Equipment Corrected to May 1, 1952
$30.00 $21.00
$30.00 $21.00
$32.00 $32.00 $32.00 $32.00 ★ ★ STILL AVAILABLE ★ ★
Erie Waldwick Interlocking Tower HO & N plus
US Funds Only N Books from
$1995
Non-member price HO $6500
$4800
Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Erie Steam Locomotive Diagram Book Book No. 2 (1944)
DL&W Locomotive Classificaton Diagram Book Revised July 1st 1939
Lackawanna m.u.’s were gathered in the Gladstone yard at the end of the namesake branch in 1982 (above). The scene had changed a few years later as Jersey Arrow cars invaded the former DL&W territory by the time the scene belowwas recorded in 1986.
Non-member price HO $6500
I ADMIT IT—I WAS CLUELESS. While attend- ing Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., in the late 1970s there was a lot of great rail action going on around me (a lot of it within 20 or 30 miles of campus) that I had no idea about. In this pre-internet age, news was hard to come by. Sure, you had Trains, but with the long lead time in publishing, the news was hardly timely. RAILFAN was in its infancy, and the news was more railfan- friendly, but as a quarterly it didn’t come out anywhere near enough. I was clueless. It wasn’t until my junior year in 1978 or so that I made the discovery of the Model Railroad Shop in nearby Dunellen. And it was there that I found my first copy of the Tri-State Chapter NRHS newsletter (more
of a magazine) The Block Line. With timely local news, a whole new world opened up to me. Engine changes from E8s to GG1s at South Amboy. Ancient Lackawanna m.u.’s rolling on the Gladstone Branch. The north- ern New Jersey passenger world was chang- ing right under my nose, and I had nearly missed it. By the time I got things figured out, the Bayonne Scoot with its RDC had rolled for the last time across Newark Bay. During the last year of college I was a bit hampered by high gas prices (they had risen to almost 60 cents a gallon and it took over $12.00 to fill the 25-gallon tank in my Mer- cury Comet), but I got out as much as I could. I got out even more after college once I found a job, but I was living in South Jer-
PHOTOGRAPHY: STEVE BARRY
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