NOTE: This message had contained at least one image attachment. To view or download the image(s), click on or cut and paste the following URL into your web browser: http://www.Railfan.net/lists/listthumb.cgi?erielack-12-05-03 H16-44.jpg (image/jpeg, 216931 bytes) Hey listers; Just a touch over 50 years ago, the Lackawanna's Bangor & Portland branch took delivery of some new arrivals - the six Fairbanks-Morse H16-44's that became the signature power for the branch in the last years of the DL & W and the first years of the newly merged road. Here's a photo-recreation of one of those new arrivals making it's first revenue run up the branch, bringing an extra through Pen Argyl on it's way to Nazareth and then on to Bath. In time, the road will add an extra outside handrail along the long hood, but other than that, these units will look much the same as this until merger time, some 7 years hence (although the RFE has had some heated discussions with the folks in Beloit about the wrong cab sides, but he has been assured that "it's an easy fix..."). Hope you all enjoy the photo... As time permits, I will offer my personal observations about these long-awaited diesels from Atlas. In a word, outstanding. Jim Harr ------------------------------
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