Worms In Love

SteveRG · **Joined:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:28 am **Posts:** 270

For about two weeks now, this tractor trailer has been sitting about a mile away from my apartment in Dover, DE. It is in the parking lot of The Goodyear Tire store/place on Rt. 13. Just had to take a picture (sorry it was done with a cell phone) and post it here.
Quite faded and the words are scratched out but this shot was the best of all the ones I took and of all the advantages I had. The other areas of the truck were painted over or scratched out beyond recognition.

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:31 pm

Ain't nostalgia bizarre?

SteveRG · **Joined:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:28 am **Posts:** 270

Always love to see that logo no matter what the condition. Love the faded green that PC used to.
Very bizzare indeed!!!

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:33 pm

There's a photo in the March 2009 Railpace of a piggyback trailer parked outside a restaurant in Southington, Ct., still boldly lettered in 2009 for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad--which was split up between the MoPac and L&N beginning in 1967................

SteveRG · **Joined:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:28 am **Posts:** 270

CT is quite a ways away from the CE&I. How did it get THAT far?

o anderson · **Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2009 12:37 pm

Last I knew there was a Reading trailer sitting at a Ace Hardware in Champaign IL. I have found an early (1940s) ~28' SP trailer body in original paint in Woodland, CA. How many museums have these in preservation? The semi-trailers are useful as mobile storage bins, if not actual displays on a TOFC.

wilkinsd · **Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:18 pm

A small trucking company in my hometown (Bardstown, KY) had the pair, a PC-painted trailer, and a jade green PC tractor. The pair were used around town, with little effort at covering the former ownership.

Down the road from my house a tractor dealership had a L&N trailer, sans running gear, and a tractor-trailer parts dealership had a relatively intact B&O "TOFCEE" trailer for a number of years.

Moral of the story, they are out there, you just have to look. At MOT in St. Louis, they placed a Mopac trailer on the TTX "Front Runner" car a couple of years ago. It's a nice exhibit.

kgrubb · **Joined:** Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:03 pm **Posts:** 10

There are a couple of these penn central trailers parked at the end of the road my sister used to live on as well as a few more spread out through the town most of them have the logos pretty much intact. Kinda weird seeing as how that town used to be served by the C&O.

ctjacks · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:21 am

I have a college friend who had a family business that leases trailers in Connecticut. He told me that his relatives bought EL's trailers shortly after it was folded into Conrail. I suspect the trailers from the other eastern RRs met a similar fate in the early Conrail era.

Chris.