EL Trailer #ELZ201865

: ELZ 201865

This 40 feet Brown Van trailer was found at Gunnison, Colorado on Rio Grande Ave. Barely read stencil shows this van trailer as Erie Lackawanna 201865.

ELZ 201501 – 202100 series Van Trailers
The Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER) for Oct 1968 shows the group with 600 cars in place, described as follows:

Description “Van” only. The inside length of these cars is 39 feet 6 inches, inside width 7 feet 9 inches, inside height 8 feet 6 inches, outside length 40 feet, extreme height 13 feet and capacity 2590 cubic feet.

By 1976, they were renumbered or retired: The Official Intermodal Equipment Register (OIER) for Feb 1976 shows none of them.

Trainworx produces N scale model of similar trailer[1]. According to the Trainworx description, they were introduced in the late ’60s.

The photo is taken on Sep. 6, 2017

[1] Trainworx web page;
* 2006 photo of Brown ELZ 201971 from the same series at Rochelle, IL;
* 1964 photo of Brown ELZ 4447;


このErie LackawannaのBrown製トレーラーは、コロラド州Gunnisonの町で見つけた。近い系列の車をNスケールで制作・販売するTrainworxの解説によれば1960年代末の製造である。