COLLECTION NAME:
NNRy Equipment and Building Roster
Record
Title:
#100
Category:
Passenger Cars
Service:
Passenger
Disposition:
In Service-Non-NNRy
Date Retired:
1935
Date Sold:
1935
Disposition Description:
Retired and sold to the Delaware Lakawanna & Western in 1935 and. renamed Anthracite. Its name was changed sometime before 07 August 1937 to Scranton. Reassigned No. 3 sometime between March 1947 and January 1951. Again renumbered to No. 97 by January 1954, and assigned to the General Superintendent. It was finally relettered to Erie-Lackawanna No. 97 in late 1960 / early 1961. Sold to Long Island Rail Road September 1962. Repainted and classified as Parlor - Lounge - Observation #2038 Setauket in May 1963. In service as a 30 seat Lounge observation car from June 1963 until September 1968. It was reclassified as a Business Car and renumbered to #W-99 in 1970 and to 2nd #99, 2nd Jamaica in 1971 and transferred to the Maintenance of Equipment Section. Last used c1975 and retired on 11 July 1978. Sold to the Long Island-Sunrise Trail Chapter NRHS on 14 July 1978 and shipped to the Black River & Western Railroad, Ringoes, NJ. Sold to current owner Porter C. Collins in 1983: to Winchester & Western Railroad (VA) 1983; to West Jersey Railroad (Salem, NJ) 1991; to Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad (Cleveland, OH) 1994; to Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway (Brewster, OH) 1996; to Ohi-Rail (Minerva, OH) 1997. Currently operational.
Passenger Car Category:
Private Cars
Builder-Pass:
Pullman
Build Date-Pass:
April 5, 1916
Cost-Pass:
#26,039.80
Length:
73' 6"
Construction:
All metal construction.
Passenger Car Service Notes:
Built by Pullman to plan 2895 lot 4378 and used by S.R. Guggenheim, President of the NNRy, in Hackensack, NJ. Retired and sold to the Delaware Lackawanna & Western in 1935 and renamed "Anthracite" and then to "Scranton."
#100
