I remember the almost daily trains of Chrysler products on auto racks climbing out of Scranton PA on the west slope of the Pocono Mtns. I had a couple of opportunities to visit the auto ramp facility at Pocono Summit when my dad delivered culvert pipes for an expansion of the plant. I remember employees racing across the upper levels with various muscle cars and then laying rubber on their way to the trailer loading area. There was a pile of bent bumpers next to the unloading ramp and a Plymouth Satellite with a dented rood along side of them. Oh Well! Field testing, I guess?
I understand that the most common problem was battery theft along the route.
Chrysler moved the unloading closer to the New York/New Jersey market and the facility sat empty for many years. As luck would have it I worked out of the old Pocono facility in the early Steamtown days when we originated the Pocono connection. We had a couple of SD24s (?) and coaches that carried folks to Steamtown, meeting the steam train in Moscow. The service only lasted a couple of summers. Today a grain mill occupies the site.
I sure would like to see open auto racks in scale size to haul behind my EL power.
Earl
