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Bev-Bel - L-4157 - Mixed Freight Consist, North America, Transition Era - Susquehanna - 1804

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Stock Number L-4157
Original Retail Price $50.00
Brand Bev-Bel
Manufacturer Life-Like
Body Style Bev-Bel Box Set
Prototype Vehicle Mixed Freight Consist, North America, Transition Era (Details)
Road or Company Name Susquehanna (Details)
Reporting Marks Route of the Susie-Q
Road or Reporting Number 1804
Paint Color(s) Yellow and Black
Print Color(s) Black
Coupler Type Rapido Hook
Multipack Yes
Multipack Count 6
DCC Readiness No
Release Date 1990-01-01
Item Category Freight Train
Model Type Diesel
Model Subtype EMD
Model Variety GP18 6-Unit Set
Prototype Region North America
Prototype Era NA Era III: Transition (1939 - 1957)
Specific Item Information: EMD GP18 Powered Diesel Train Set with five cars.
- GP18 New York Susquehanna & Western Bev-Bel 16000
Model Information: Bev-Bel boxed sets come in two shapes:
1. one engine and five (5) cars
2. Four (4) cars.
They are marked as 'N Gauge Collector's Set' and 'Limited Edition'.
They are all named.
Prototype History: A mixed freight train is a train that hauls a variety of different freight cars or wagons. A mixed freight depends on the locale and industries. The train will be carrying cars to be brought to a yard where a local will bring them to the various industries. The location determines the industries, and the industries determine the cars.

Which cars are in which trains is determined by the waybills they are assigned - which is close to a totally random process. For example, through freights simply run from up staging to down staging and back, stopping long enough to trade out 30 percent of their cars and change from steam to motor (catenary) or vice-versa. Thus freights will have a variety of cars, changing each time they pass through a switching yard.
Road Name History: The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway (reporting mark NYSW) (a.k.a. the Susie-Q or the Susquehanna) is a Class II American freight railway operating over 500 miles (800 km) of track in the northeastern states of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It was formed in 1881 from the merger of several smaller railroads. Passenger service in Northern New Jersey was offered until 1966. The railroad was purchased by the Delaware Otsego Corporation in 1980, and became a regional player during the 1980s in the intermodal freight transport business.

The New York, Susquehanna & Western can trace its roots back to the Hoboken, Ridgefield & Paterson Railroad, chartered in 1866 to connect industrial Paterson, New Jersey, with the ports along the Hudson Waterfront opposite New York City at Hoboken. That same year, the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad was chartered to connect the Great Lakes port at Oswego, New York, with New York City. Several competing companies sprang up in 1867, but the New Jersey Western was the most successful, constructing westward from Paterson and Hawthorne. Cornelious Wortendyke, president of the New Jersey Western Railroad (NJW), signed a lease agreement with DeWitt Clinton Littlejohn of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway (NYO&W) giving his road a through route into New Jersey. Construction on the NY&OM started in 1868 and progressed rapidly. The NJW changed its name to the New Jersey Midland Railway in 1870, and construction had stretched from Hackensack, New Jersey, all the way through to Hanford.

Currently, the NYS&W operates over 500 miles of track in three states. The network consists of three main routes, one running from Northern New Jersey to Binghamton and the other two branching north from Binghamton to serve Utica and Syracuse.
Brand/Importer Information:
Formerly located in Cresskill, New Jersey, the now defunct Bev-Bel Corp. was founded by the late Irvin and Beverly Belkin in 1956. A prolific "boutique" producer of after-market, limited production, special run rolling stock and locomotives (in road names and non-traditional commemorative and holiday themed paint schemes that were not typically offered by the major manufacturers), Bev-Bel' sourced its models from Atlas Tool Co., Inc., Atlas Model Railroad Co., Inc., Bachmann, and Life-Like Trains.
Item created by: Alain LM on 2017-12-17 16:12:22
Last edited by: Alain LM on 2020-07-09 15:22:30


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