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    Erie/EL yard @ Jamestown, NY using USGS Historical Topo & County Tax Maps

    Jamestown, NY Erie-Lackawanna (former Erie RR) Yard. The scan on the left is a reduction of three taped together 8.5x11 copies of portions of the Chautauqua Co. Tax maps covering the depicted area. [FWIW, Each original tax map is approx. 2'x3' and showed more than I needed.] The area depicted...
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    Erie Passenger Car Paint Schemes

    I'm looking to put together a steam era Erie passenger consist. From what I can tell from the few photos and pictures I can find steam trains did not generally pull the multi-colored cars or streamline cars. Can anyone confirm this? Also, did Erie use a special color on their green cars with...
  3. CNW/FVR SD9's at Erie IL

    CNW/FVR SD9's at Erie IL

    Two SD9s lead a short manifest Northbound on the Fever River Layout. The train is passing the Erie Illinois Station where roofing work is being done. Kudos to Dave Moore for an excellent job on the station!
  4. NRLX 47119 Ex-Conrail Ex-Erie Lackawanna hopper

    NRLX 47119 Ex-Conrail Ex-Erie Lackawanna hopper

    This hopper started out with factory Erie Lackawanna paint. Car was then painted conrail brown and was then wet sanded to simulate the conrail paint washing away. Car then had patches added for its current owner,NRLX. It was then decaled and weathered.




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