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Excellent! Question: what did NYC/PC rider coaches use for heat? Was there a steam line passing through the Flex-Van flats? Or did the coach have a stove? The EL rider coaches used on its mail trains were generally ex-Erie Stillwell coaches with coal stoves with a roof top smoke stack.

Posted by John Barlow on 2023-12-18 09:53:37

Framingham back in the day-nice and busy. Did armed guards inhabit the "Rider Car"? Given the sacred nature of mail and express back then, I wonder. Now the thieves rob the local mailman and steal his box key.

Posted by Henry Brown on 2023-12-18 17:13:33

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