Hey gang....
Since this will probably be the last run of the MTH railking scale RS-3's, we have asked about the possibility of adding one more road to our special run list.
This one is a particular fav of mine, since I worked and rode on these engines back a hundred years ago... The Erie-Lackawanna Passenger RS-3's , or as we called them on the EL New York Division ...."the 900's" Its hard to believe that the last time MTH made them was in 2000! Im hoping to get Atlas to do some of of there 60' passenger cars in Erie (green with yellow lettering) , so as to be able to put together a nice EL commuter train. Only a handful of the coaches were ever re-lettered Erie-Lackawanna. Most were just lettered ERIE till they were retired.
The EL 900's (RS-2's and 3's) were the most common engine in the commuter pool, and were also used on some local freights. And on weekends, you could see 3 to 5 of them together on a road freight between Croxton and Port Jervis or Binghamton.
The "10 hundred" RS-3's (which have more commonly been modeled), were freight only, and rarely made it as far east as the NY division. Anything west of Binghamton, we called "out west". The 10 hundreds were all out west.
Here's the link. Please pre-order if interested. Its still not a done deal unless there is enough interest...
https://www.publicdeliverytrac...-diesel-3-rail-p3-0/
Thanks,
beth