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Re: (erielack) Restored EL 2nd generation diesels ??

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> From: Bill K. <"pontiac_@_dreamscape.com">
> To: Schuyler G. Larrabee <"SGL2_@_IX.NETCOM.COM">; erielack@internexus.net
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Restored EL 2nd generation diesels ??
> Date: Sunday, October 04, 1998 3:40 AM
> 
> Schuyler -
> 
> I didn't mean to imply the engines weren't EL in origin - 

OK, I see.  I responded to the __Conrail__ part of the note.  I suppose
that they technically did become Conrail engines, but did they ever appear
in Blue?  I was under the impression that they migrated to Guilford pretty
quickly after '76, so I'm surprised to see the '80-81 date there.

> 
> from this month's Diesel Era:
> 
> The lone PRR/PC C424, all but 2 EL's and all but one RDG C424 were either
> traded or sold to GE.  (Plus they bought one more EL & one more RDG from
> Naporano) - out of that the 1 PRR, 8 of the EL's and 2 RDG units were
> rebuilt along with 6 PRR C425's at Hornell.   Said units went to D&H,
GBW,
> and D&M.   According to this the units to D&H are: 
> 	(EL)2401 (LA&L 421), 2402, 2405, 2406 (MEC 453), 2407(LA&L 424), 2408,
> 2414 (LA&L 423), RDG 5206 (LA&L 422) and 5207(MEC 455).   The other three
> went to the G&W, one was wrecked and the others are on the MNNR.   LA&L
425
> was NH 2557.
> 
> Apparently they were redone by GE either for D&H or the lessor, or were
> redone and then sold.  This gives the unit's Builder's Numbers as ID -
All
> of the trading was done 1980-81, after the units became Conrail engines.
> 
> Also, wouldn't the "FIRST 424"  be that odd PRR unit, it was Alco 640-1
> before PRR got it (and it still exists although this list doesn't know
> where it is).  



(It does have a higher frame number though than 2401)

Doesn't that sort of settle it??

 On the
> other hand wouldn't EL's C425's (now mostly on GVT) be the first C425's? 
I
> thought I read that EL created the thing insisting that they have the
same
> generator as a U25B.

That is a fact.


SGL

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