RE: (erielack) Long-haul motive power

["Joshua K. Blay" <joshuakblay_@_hotmail.com>]

BLW is Baldwin
BLH is Baldwin Lima Hamilton

Joshua


>From: "Chris Thurner" <CThurner_@_adelphia.net>
>Reply-To: "Chris Thurner" <CThurner_@_adelphia.net>
>To: <Smtimko_@_aol.com>, <davandli@ptdprolog.net>, 
><erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
>Subject: RE: (erielack) Long-haul motive power
>Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 15:37:18 -0400
>
>Some questions on the email below from 'smt':
>
>1.) What's a 'BLWBLH' unit?
>2.) Any shorthand to the train symbols (e.g. BM-7, does it mean 'Buffalo -
>Meadville'?).  What were the RC and MR designations for?
>
>Any info would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Chris Thurner
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net
>[mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net] On Behalf Of Smtimko@aol.com
>Sent:	Saturday, July 07, 2001 7:00 AM
>To:	davandli_@_ptdprolog.net; erielack@lists.railfan.net
>Subject:	Re: (erielack) Long-haul motive power
>
>Dave--
>
>After the BLWBLH units left Buffalo---both the switchers and road 
>switchers,
>many low numbered GP-7's ( the former Erie ones) took their place.  It was
>normal for BM-7 from Buffalo to have four GP-7's and come down the B&SW to
>Meadville with them.  They normally worked back to Buffalo on the next
>Buffalo train.  There were two scheduled trains in each direction between
>Meadville and Buffalo---BM7 and BM-9 westbound and RC-98 and MF-74
>eastbound.
>
>These trains originally ran via B&SW, then the wye at River Jct was 
>upgraded
>on one train went that way, each way.  For instance, the BM-7 would have
>been
>a Buffalo crew and they went West on the B&SW and East over the River Line
>on
>MF-74 after taking rest at Meadville.  The RC-98 would have been a 
>Meadville
>crew and went East over the B&SW and returned West via River Line on BM-9
>after resting in Buffalo.  These assignments changed from time to time as
>did
>the routing.  There were also Buffalo Grain Trains as well as Buffalo Coal
>Trains that ran extra and usually had bigger road power and ran via River
>Jct.
>
>I remember seeing GP-7's that came to Meadville from Buffalo having every
>crevice and crack crammed full of snow.  The engines literally had to be
>'dug
>out' at Meadville to be serviced and made ready for return trip to Buffalo
>in
>the winter.  The route from Buffalo to Meadville via the B&SW was really 
>the
>land of the Big Snow!
>
>smt
>
>

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