Re: (erielack) Railroad presidents and EL business trains

[Will Enser <alcoman_@_net.bluemoon.net>]

It was probably a tie in for the Horseshoe Curve celebration as well!  Mr. 
Goode was there for that on the 4th as well along with the biz train.  Not 
that far from Waverly/Binghamton to Altoona.




On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Tom Beckett wrote:

> NS typically assigns 2607 and/or 2616. Both were in Binghamton the week of
> July 4th with their executive train for a celebration in Waverly(150th
> anniversary of Waverly incorporation??) on the 4th. I understand Mr. Goode
> was to be in attendance. I imagine he flew into Binghamton or Elmira to
> attend. One of them also ran the train the the Democratic convention in
> Boston, via CSX.
>
> The CSX F40s were through Syracuse last week, so they are still around-for
> now.
>
> I miss CR's E units. They made for a classy train. I remember Jack Kithcart
> running CR 4022(Erie 833) on a Southern Tier employees' train in 1989. He
> notched them out leaving Corning headed east, and there was no catching him.
>
> Tom B
>
>> Ooops; mispeak late at night.  Sorry.  Not sure CSX is keeping the F40s in
>> service, the CN Es' fate is being reconsidered as we speak (past prez.
>> Paul
>> Tellier's successor will decide, the E-unit came with the Illinois Central
>> acquisition); forgot about the CPR Fs (prez. Rob Ritchie is another of the
>> grand
>> old-school leaders -- and a great person), and the entire BNSF fleet of
>> executive
>> Es and Fs was given to IRM.  NS has a specially painted engine, but it's
>> rare
>> that it ever pulls the president.  The CSX / NS business cars have been
>> floating up and down the Chemical Coast pretty regularly of late, and each
>> time the
>> consist has been a clean CSX and NS locomotive, nothing special, and not
>> even
>> particularly new.
>>
>

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