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RE: (erielack) Mystery Engine at Andover Junction

I love puzzles!

I think this is one of the Erie's former GP-9's (not GP-7), and here's the
reasoning why:

1. The dynamic brakes.
2. The position of the EL lettering on the hood. You'll notice that the
"ERIE" starts off under the intake louvers at the long hood end of the unit,
and continue to just at the cab edge of the dynamic brake blister.

If you'll take a look at a regular dynamic-brake GP7:

http://gelwood.railfan.net/loco/el1218l.jpg

You'll see the "ERIE" doesn't even come close to those intake screens up top
(plus, they didn't letter across those louvers!).

The GP9s all had their roadnames "offset" to the long hood end - it wasn't
centered - to account for all those louvers:

http://gelwood.railfan.net/loco/1260.jpg


As to WHICH GP-9 it is, can't help you there... :(

	- Paul



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Rutan [mailto:rutan3_@_nac.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 4:08 PM
> To: List-Erie Lackawanna
> Subject: (erielack) Mystery Engine at Andover Junction
> 
> 
> This link: 
> [http://www.sussexbranchmemorial.com/Archives/newspaper_photos
> /lines_end-1966.JPG] is to a photograph from the New Jersey 
> Herald dated July 17, 1966. The picture is of the train that 
> removed the empty box cars from Branchville and Lafayette 
> after passenger service ended.
> 
> I saw this train at the Diller Avenue crossing while standing 
> on the front seat of my parents' car--yes, I was that small! 
> I would really like to know the engine number of this train 
> so that I may look up a picture of it (and for the sake of 
> knowledge.) I am told that the engine is a dynamic brake 
> equipped GP-7 and that I need a dispatcher's sheet or the 
> Dover or Port Morris tower sheets for July 15, 1966 to get 
> the engine #.
> 
> Does anyone have these or know someone who does? Or know of 
> someone I could contact who has access to them? I'd really 
> appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks, Dave Rutan
> 
> I've included the caption for the picture below:
> 
> LINE'S END...Andover--Installation of a barricade taking 
> another cut into Sussex County's rail service took place 
> Friday Afternoon, when the section gang from the Port Morris 
> Yard put this barricade in place at the Lehigh and Hudson 
> crossing on the Erie Lackawanna track at Andover Junction. 
> Supervising the operation, which followed the last run of the 
> commuter train to Newton. Wednesday night, are Michael Menna 
> foreman, and Joseph Esposito, track supervisor. The engine in 
> the background took the remaining cars from above the cut-off 
> point before the track was sealed off. Unlike spiking, 
> barricading does not ruin the track.
> -- 
> DL&W Sussex Branch Memorial
> http://SussexBranchMemorial.com
> Monomania can be a good thing
> 

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