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From: "GORDON SMITH" <kc2bw@w...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Update on CB&Q/EL pool power
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> mack@c... wrote:
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> > Also CB&Q GP40 179 and SD45 516 were seen on NE-97 to Chicago 12/26 (is
this a Q
> > train or an EL train?).
>
> NE-97 or New England 97 was an EL westbound that departed Maybrook,
> NY, the former New Haven
> interchange, that became Penn Central, and ran to Chicago. It carried
> traffic from New England
> to the west.
>
> >The post states that Q units on other runs are rarely seen and that
SD45's are the most
> >common pooled power by EL and Q.
>
> OH NOT SO!!! At least not here on the east end of the EL in New
> Jersey. I saw a good number of
> GP-30s, GP-40s and yes, Sd-45s on several different symboled trains. And
> a GP-20 and a SD-24 even
> made it to Port Jervis, NY. Once the merger happened we had units from
> the GN and I remember there
> after plenty of SD-45s and F-45s, a lot of which I ran.
>
> Gordon
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