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RE: (erielack) Another "what if": EL GP15-1 ?

Doubtful.  I've seen sources that EL had GP38-2s and U23Bs on order just
prior to C.  There was even a rumor that GE had some U23Bs in EL paint ready
for delivery that were cancelled because of C.  These would seem the logical
sucessors to the C424/425, U25B, GP35 portion of the EL roster.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: A Samostie [mailto:quahog_@_sprint.ca]
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:38 AM
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: (erielack) Another "what if": EL GP15-1 ?
> 
> 
> Dear Group,
> 
> Following from the recent discussion about what happened to 
> the wrecked
> FT, and EMD trade-ins...
> 
> I began to speculate whether EL would have been a customer for GP15-1s
> as replacements for the remaining F units and first-generation Geeps. 
> According to Hundman Publishing's "EMD's GP15" by Dave Peck, the first
> GP15-1s for CNW and MoPac were built in June 1976, just after 
> C-day.  Of
> course, Conrail did what EL did not survive to do, and took 
> delivery of
> 100 GP15-1s in 1979.
> 
> Although I often think of the EL as the "big power road" of the
> northeast, it did have many small light-duty branchlines to serve. 
> Those first-generation Geeps, RS2s and RS3s couldn't last forever. So,
> my guess is, had the EL continued operation, the GP15-1 (or even GE
> U18Bs) would likely have served well on EL lines.  Opinions?
> 
> Cheers,
> Alan <quahog_@_sprint.ca>
> 

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