Diner 741

Diner 470

City of Lima

American
Way II

Coach 1318

Our Equipment - The Lake Cities Project

The last long-distance passenger train on the Erie Lackwanna was The Lake Cities. The train made its final trip from Hoboken, NJ to Chicago, IL on January 4, 1970, closing out over 100 years of long-distance passenger service on the Erie and Lackawanna Railroads. The goal of our organization is to recreate an Erie Lackawanna long distance train from the 1960s, which we call The Lake Cities Project.

ELDCPS-Owned Cars

ELDCPS owns three passenger cars which operated on Erie Lackawanna long-distance trains :

	Erie Lackawanna Diner 741 Erie Lackawanna 741, ex-Erie 941 Built 1927, Pullman
	Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Diner 470 Erie Lackawanna 770, ex-Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 470 Built 1949, Budd
	Nickel Plate 10-6 Sleeper City of Lima Nickel Plate Road 211 Built 1950, Pullman

Other Cars

Owned by Erie Lackawanna Equipment Leasing, LLC, these cars are being privately restored. They will be used with our cars to help complete a full trainset. We hope to be able to work with other private owners in the future to continue to assemble an authentic Erie Lackawanna train.

	Erie Railroad American Way II ex-Canadian National Green Bank Built 1954, Pullman
	Erie Lackawanna Coach 1318 EL 1318, ex-DL&W 318 Built 1949, Pullman

Car Report

One of the advantages of ELDCPS Membership is our newsletter. Vice President-Operations John Boehner complies a detailed car report for each newsleter. The source for the latest information is the newsletter and Members Only Area. For non-members, we will periodically post car reports here after they appear in the newsletter.

Car Report - August 26, 2005