08-22-2010, 11:26 AM
Wow, Andrew ... I'm somewhat jealous! 8-) 
McClelland and Koester and their friends in the "Lichen Belt" were instrumental in my choosing to model a Northeastern Pennsylvania coal hauler, and to develop to the extent of detail that I did (a full three-ring binder plus several LS&W publications) the "freelanced prototype railroad" concept back starting in about 1973 or maybe '74. [I actually carried on a letter-written conversation - including hand-drawn sketches - with Tony Koester about the techniques he used in "Covering a Mountainside with Lichen" over several months time in the mid-to-late '70's ... those letters are currently in poly pages in one of my model railroading binders!]
I had contacted them both about sending them rolling stock (e.g., an LS&W box car of bat billets from the Worth Bat Company in Honesdale, PA being shipped to Hillerich & Bradsby in Louisville, KY to be turned into Louisville Slugger baseball bats) for interchange. But then a job change and a move across the country coupled with heavily increased corporate responsibilities sidelined my model railroading for a number of years.
How cool to have those hoppers! However, should you ever see a box car for either of those roads, let me know!!!
McClelland and Koester and their friends in the "Lichen Belt" were instrumental in my choosing to model a Northeastern Pennsylvania coal hauler, and to develop to the extent of detail that I did (a full three-ring binder plus several LS&W publications) the "freelanced prototype railroad" concept back starting in about 1973 or maybe '74. [I actually carried on a letter-written conversation - including hand-drawn sketches - with Tony Koester about the techniques he used in "Covering a Mountainside with Lichen" over several months time in the mid-to-late '70's ... those letters are currently in poly pages in one of my model railroading binders!]
I had contacted them both about sending them rolling stock (e.g., an LS&W box car of bat billets from the Worth Bat Company in Honesdale, PA being shipped to Hillerich & Bradsby in Louisville, KY to be turned into Louisville Slugger baseball bats) for interchange. But then a job change and a move across the country coupled with heavily increased corporate responsibilities sidelined my model railroading for a number of years.
How cool to have those hoppers! However, should you ever see a box car for either of those roads, let me know!!!
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln