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 VIDEO REVIEW


SP Steam Variety Greg Scholl Video Productions, P.O. Box 123, Batavia, OH


45103-0123; www.gregscholl


video.com; 513/732-0660. 56 minutes, B&W and color. DVD only, standard definition. $29.95 plus $5.00 shipping in U.S.; to Canada add $1:00; add $1.00 for each additional DVD. OH residents add sales tax


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


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Member price HO $5000 N


$1696


Member price $3800 (US Funds Only)


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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


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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


Greg Scholl continues to bring out programs based on newly ob- tained Kodachrome movies of regular service steam opera- tions in the U.S. that was shot by compe- tent amateurs. This DVD shows a variety of locomotives from switchers to Cab For- wards on freight and


passenger trains in regular service in the Golden State from 1930 to the ’50s. This show is mostly color with some b&w


Non-member price HO $6500


such as the opening 1930s shots of Cab For- wards near Bealville in the Tehachapis tak- en from trackside and in the cab. Next up are SP ferries in San Francisco Bay and the San Leandro leaving the Oakland Mole. The station at Third and Townsend is visited of- ten. We ride No. 99 in its all-Daylight livery (steam powered, of course) from Los Angeles to San Francisco and see a variety of very good scenes from the open vestibule along the ocean. Color coverage takes us to San Luis Obispo on the Coast Line, where the film switches to b&w as a 2-10-2 helper is added for the run up Cuesta grade. Donner Pass is visited briefly in February 1952 where new F7s on the point of freights have Cab For- wards as pushers. Then in the Siskiyou Mountains a train is ridden northbound to Grants Pass, Ore., behind a 4-8-2 before switching to color film for the return south – viewing snow, tunnels, semaphores, Mount Shasta, and the water plug at Black Butte. The next chapter covers action around the


Bay area. We see 4-8-2s on fast passenger train at Giant, Cab Forwards of various vin- tages on freights, Pacifics on passenger trains, many steam powered named trains, the Oakland Lark with a New York Central observation car, a Pacific leaving a bucolic Palo Alto for the run to Los Gatos, engines backing to their trains at Third and Townsend, MT-5 class 4-8-2s lined up six across with their afternoon commuter trains, and 4-8-4 No. 4440 on train 72 at Guadalupe. At Oakland we visit the Mole, the West Oakland diamond, and the engine terminal. GS-4 No. 4449 in black and with- out skirts backs onto, spins, and leaves the turntable.


Ending on an upbeat note, a railroad pa- rade in May 1939 marches down Alameda Street to celebrate the opening of Los Ange- les Union Passenger Terminal. This rare footage is quite something – you’ll witness the C.P. Huntington 4-2-4T and Virginia & Truckee’s Inyo under steam as an AC-5 pulls a 14-inch railway gun. An SP 4-8-4, Union Pacific Challenger, and Santa Fe 2-10-4 are


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all hidden under decorations that mask each locomotive from view; the slogans on their flanks seem quaint today. In addition to the main topics are cameo shots of steam meets, glimpses of Santa Fe diesel power, light en- gine moves, engine terminal and switching moves, and the inevitable Oakland dead line, where rows of locomotives await the torch. Professional narration and well-re-


searched subtitles with appropriate music are used in lieu of what would otherwise be dubbed locomotive sounds. The train con- sists, scenery, people, towns, depots, high- ways, semaphores, and railroad infrastruc- ture are now almost all gone. While the film has been expertly transferred to video, im- age quality varies from acceptable to mostly very good to excellent with occasional under- exposed or poorly framed scenes. Competent camera work, sometimes from two guys on the same trip, and post production computer enhancement present very sharp and clean imagery with no jitter, dust, and such. Some sequences are long, others are more like quick clips. Some scenes are in low and dra- matic light, other times high noon sun or un- der clouds. Maps help locate the scenes; some are more legible than others. This pro- gram is a fine remembrance of the last of Southern Pacific steam on well-known and less-remarked routes. — TOM KELCEC


BOOK REVIEW


Norfolk & Western’s Clinch Valley Line By Ed Wolfe; Charles Wilson, Jr.; and Paul Mandelkern. Published by HEW Enterprises, 116 Oakview Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15218. B&W and


color, hardcover, 432 pages,


8¹/₂″×11″; $65.00 plus $5.00 shipping (add $1.00 per additional book).


This is the latest book by Ed Wolfe on the his- tory of the Norfolk & Western Railway.


It


covers N&W’s route through southwestern Virginia’s Clinch Riv- er Valley from near Bluefield to Norton, where it connected and interchanged with Louisville & Nashville


and the Interstate Railroad. The coal-hauling Clinch Valley route ran to the north of the N&W main line to Bristol, where it connected with the Southern Railway. The Clinch Valley Line served the Clinch Valley No. 1, Clinch Valley No. 2, and Tiller coal districts. Wolfe and company set the stage with an early overview of the N&W in the late 1800s before delving into the construction of the Clinch Valley Extension. This discussion also includes the L&N’s Cumberland Valley Divi- sion which was N&W’s interchange partner west of Norton to Corbin, Ky., the Clinch Val- ley Line’s physical characteristics and its construction. Each town, industry, and loca- tion is thoroughly described using vintage photographs and topographic maps. The line is also described using N&W track maps that show curvature, gradient, speed limits, and the


location


of grade crossings, bridges,


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