DL&W ballast cars

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Does anyone have any idea what the Lackawanna had for ballast cars? I’ve seen a picture of a difco side dump loaded with ballast but would that have been used on a MOW train or did they have hoppers with side grates? I’m building a Lackawanna work train in HO. Thanks.

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I’ll have to dig around a bit and see if I can find anything on the DL&W. I have a B&W 8x10 showing ERIE ballast cars on a track relocation job, though.

ERIE Railroad Track Realignment by Edmund, on Flickr

Lackawanna track gang:

Note the side gates on the hopper bottoms:

The last three photos are from Fallen Flags site:

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/el.html

Good Luck, Ed

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Thanks for the Erie photo. Unfortunately that was the only one I could get. Tom