Erie Lackawanna Historical Society
2015 ELHS CALENDAR ERIE L ACKAWANNA H ISTORICAL
HO S OCIETY 2015 Calendar 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
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This kit builds into a model representing crossing shanties located throughout the Erie west end.
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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
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$8.95 s&h Books from
Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Erie Steam Locomotive Diagram Book Book No. 2 (1944)
Erie Passenger Equipment Diagram Book Book No. 76, May 1952
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This kit builds into a model representing crossing shanties located throughout the Erie west end.
DL&W Locomotive Classificaton Diagram Book Revised July 1st 1939
DL&W Classification of Freight Equipment Corrected to May 1, 1952
Erie Lackawanna Passenger Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 15, Issued Aug. 30, 1966.
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Erie Lackawanna Freight Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 78, Updated May 9, 1975
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ELHS membership at $35 per membership cycle. Cycle includes four issues of our magazine “The Diamond” and four newsletters with modeling
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WELL, IT’S BEEN AN INTERESTING FEW MONTHS. It’s with more than a little sadness that RAILFAN & RAILROAD splits away from Carstens Publications. I was a journeyman accountant back in 1995 when then-associ- ate editor Mike Del Vecchio approached me about joining the R&R staff full time to re- place Bruce Kelly, who was leaving R&R to move to Idaho. I thought about it for about two seconds before saying “yes,” and I start- ed with R&R in March 1996. Good friend Jim Boyd became my boss, and I took over from him in late 1998 as editor. At the time I joined R&R I had been out of college and in the work force for 16 years, but when I walked into that door at Carstens in 1996 it was the first time I had a job where I felt at home. I really can’t thank everyone enough for
the opportunity I had with Carstens Publi- cations. Hal and Phyllis Carstens provided a family atmosphere at work, and I enjoyed working for Henry Carstens when he took over the business from his father. The 18 years just flew by. Now we’re embarking on what can proba-
bly be called “RAILFAN v2.0.” The publishing world has changed dramatically, and those changes made it difficult for a company structured like Carstens to compete. Fortu- nately, White River Productions has stepped in to take over R&R and RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, and Otto Vondrak and I look forward to many more years of provid- ing you with the best in railfanning news, information and photography. I think our contributors will appreciate some of the changes that will be implemented, and our readers can once again look forward to hear- ing from us every month. Don’t hesitate to let us know how we’re doing, please drop me an email at
editor@railfan.com. — S.B.
Close to Home
I was very interested to work on Ben Mar- tin’s article on the Finger Lakes Railway (page 28), since the topic is rather close to home. My office is less than an hour from FGLK’s headquarters in Geneva, N.Y., after all. You would think I would know every- thing there is about their operation, but the truth is I’ve only visited a handful of times over the last 15 years or so, and I have yet to photograph a moving train on its line (one of my friends is now a dispatcher for FGLK, so you’d think I’d have the advantage). It seems that visits to Geneva made while passing through the area were never timed right for train operation. What precious time I do have to get trackside is either spent close to home or on a planned trip somewhere hundreds of miles away. Like Ben Martin, I read with great inter-
est Pete Swanson’s article on the FGLK in the February 1998 issue of RAILFAN & RAIL- ROAD.I was a third-year graphic design stu- dent at Rochester Institute of Technology, and FGLK was in its third year of operation. Even then, the short line’s weekday opera- tion and lack of a car kept me from checking it out in person (though I did write an article about the Ontario Central Railroad in the
June 2006 issue of our sister publication Railroad Model Craftsman). Ben’s article taught me a lot about how the FGLK opera- tion has evolved over the last decade, and has inspired me to finally head over to Gene- va and see what I've been missing! Needless to say, Steve and I are both very
pleased to be back to work, and we look for- ward to serving you for many years to come as part of the White River Productions fam- ily. We hope you agree that it was a good move, and we look forward to earning your support month after month. See you trackside! — O.M.V.
A Tale of Two Covers
Speaking of the February 1998 issue that featured the Finger Lakes Railway, there is quite a coincidence here. That issue was my first as editor following Jim Boyd’s retire- ment and featured a photo by Pete Swanson of the Finger Lakes on the cover. Now we have the first issue under White River Pro- ductions and what’s on the cover? The Fin- ger Lakes Railway, this time in a photo by Ben Martin. That’s two major milestones (probably the most significant milestones in my R&R career, other than my first issue as a staffer) with the same cover subject. — S.B.
The 2014 Center Spread Contest
The RAILFAN & RAILROAD Center Spread Contest will provide a skilled and/or lucky photographer the opportunity to see his or her photo grace the center spread of the De- cember 2014 issue. We’ll award the first place winner a $100 cash prize, with $60 go- ing to two runners-up and $30 going to sev- eral honorable mentions. Any rail subject, photographed at any
time, qualifies for the contest. The only limitations are that the image must be in a horizontal format (vertical shooters read on —we have something for you, as well). The judges are strongly influenced by im-
ages that show creativity. So what is “cre- ative?” Let’s just say that we can’t define it but we know it when we see it. This isn’t to say that “traditional” photography can’t place well in the contest, but composition, lighting and a unique perspective will play a large role in how the judges view the shot. Here’s the fine print: Each photographer
can enter up to ten photos, but we generally only award one prize per winning entrant. Digital photos, scanned slides and scanned negatives can be entered (sorry, no trans- parencies or prints), and your name must ap- pear on each CD. Include your address, day- time phone number, e-mail address and caption information inside your package. Note that images with insufficient caption in- formation may be disqualified — if we don’t know what it is, it won’t win. A caption sheet must be included. For slide shooters that wish to enter, there are several scanning services that do a fine job for less than $1.00 per scan. Scans have several advantages for both you and us —it keeps precious original slides from having to be shipped (twice) and we find that organizing the contest is much
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