Page 24: Erie Lackawanna's premier train, the Phoebe Snow, wheels westbound through Dunmore, Pa., in the autumn of 1966 - and the autumn of her life; the train was discontinued in November at that year. Two E8s lead a handsome gray-and-maroon streamlined consist spliced by a hodge-podge at head-end cars, some still clad in pre-merger Erie green. Originahy the Phoebe was DL&W's flagship train on the Hobaken-Buffalo route, but following the Lackawanna/Erie merger in 1960, Phoebe became a Hobaken-Chicago stream-liner, operating more or less an the schedule of precursor Erie Limited.

Page 24 Left: An EL E8, mail dormitory 626, a 200-series lightweight baggage car and an ex-Erie modernized heavyweight coach cruise the HO layout of Ken McCory The short but varied consist represents prototype EL trains 21/22, a Hoboken-Binghamton local on the former Erie route.

Page 26: EL passenger trains had rich background roots through predecessor roads Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and Erie Railroad In this 1960 scene at the time of the merger Erie Alco PA No 861 leads a Hoboken- Binghamton local over Starucca Viaduct Lanesboro, Pa. Behind the two baggage cars are a modernized heavyweight coach and a StilIwell coach.

Page 27: Above Top: The Chicago-bound Phoebe plunges into the Bergen Tunnel just outside Hoboken Terminal in November 1966; the final Phoebe would run the next day. Her handsome tavern-lounge observation cars were built by the Budd Company. Authors Marty Obed and Joe Lofland will show how to model these classics in a future installment

Above Bottom: Binghamton-Hoboken train 22 at Port Jervis, N.Y, in September 1966 is yet another example of the modelability at EL varnish. E8 832 leads a heavyweight baggage car (still in Erie colors), clerestory-roof coach and modernized ex-Erie coach (see page 24 for a model at this train with another set at equipment).

Page 28: EL equipment survives into the Conrail era: Maintenance-of-way car 489011 at Scranton, Pa., in 1979 is ex-EL mail-storage car 457, formerly DL&W 2054.

Page 28: Author Lofland built his 60-foot baggage-express car using a Walthers body and Central Valley trucks; doors that represented those of the prototype had to be fabricated from styrene. A view at the completed car appears at the top of the next page.

Page 28 table: Note: Passenger equipment registers were issued early in the year and often listed renumbering and/or relettering which had taken place during the latter nine months of the previous year.

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Page 29: The completed 60-foot baggage-express car. The author modeled car 458, which was one of 38 cars EL rebuilt from various groups of 60-footers in 1965 (not indicated in the tabular on page 28).

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Page 29: EL baggage-express car 578 is at Chicago in September 1968. The 70-footer is a former Erie car built in 1928. The Athearn heavyweight baggage car makes modeling this series a cinch.

Page 29 The author modeled 70-foot baggage-express car 585 in its Erie scheme. The principal alteration is the reshaping of baggage-door windows (see fig. 1, next page). Note also in this scene the adjacent milk car, discussed later in this installment.

Page 30 EL rider car R-29, photographed at Warren, Ohio, in May 1979, is ex-EL baggage-mail 623, which had been Erie mail-dormitory 653.

Page 31: The basis for the three types of EL lightweight head-end cars is the Rivarossi streamlined baggage car, distributed in the U.S. by International Hobby Corporation. Shown here is author Lofland's EL baggage-mail car 627.

Page 31: In this 1979 scene at Deposit, N.Y, Conrail 489008 serves as a maintenance-of-way tool car. It began life in 1950 for Erie as baggage-express car 207; it retained that number under EL auspices. A model ot this car in Erie colors and markings (as car 212) appears below. Again, the Rivarossi streamlined baggage car is your base from which to work.

Page 32: Above left: Looking a little scrappy at Dear-barn Station, Chicago, is Erie RPO-dorm 626. The car was built in 1950 for American Car & Foundry

Above right: A model of the streamlined RPO-dorm (or mail-dorm) in Erie regala -as car 623- and (right) in Erie Lackawanna colors, car 653.

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Page 32: Author Lofland's model at heavyweight RPO-express No.600. The four prototype cars of this series were built in 1928 by Pullman. Rivarossi again provides a model that can be modified to represent the prototype.

Page 33: Model of mail-dormitory 606. The prototype was built by ACF in 1930 as a mail-express car, but at a later date it was converted to dorm status with the addition of nine bunks. Apparently there was no change in window configurotion which, outwardly makes it look like a typical RPO-baggage express.

Page 33: Erie milk car from the series 6655-6734, which had hinged doors. As with any car assigned to passenger service, the cars were equipped with high-speed trucks and steam lines.

Page 34: Twin E8s roll the westbound Phoebe Snow through the Delaware Water Gap near Stroudsburg, Pa., in 1962. Behind the units is a milk car still in Erie two-tone green. It is equipped with a sliding door which may make it one of the cars in the 6600-6649 series. Behind the milk car is one of the two heavyweight baggage-mail cars that were upgraded to match new Phoebe Snow equipment. These cars were DL&W 1812-1813, later EL 677-678. Built by Pullman in 1927, they were "streamlined" by the DL&W at Keyser, Pa., in 1949.

Page 34: Below: A model at car 6690, from the series illustrated by prototype car 6655 an the previous page.

Page 34: Below right: Models of EL express boxcars 154 and 106. Our next installment of this modeling feature will include notes on paints and decals.