Dear Ed,
The severing of the Boonton Line to accommodate Route 80 in Paterson is
arguably the single most stupid decision that EL management ever made.
Chuck
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"Montgomery, Edward
T"
One other memory I have of the ex-Erie Baldwins running at speed was in
the summer of 1963, the last summer of the complete/unaltered DL&W
Boonton Line. I was walking over the Parish Drive viaduct in Mountain
View and a westbound freight headed by I think three Baldwins passed by.
It was in mid afternoon and this was probably a train headed either for
Phillipsburg or Scranton. I remember it had a lot of those short LNE
boxcars in the consist. I assumed these cars were headed back to the
cement district in Pennsylvania.
One line that seemed to stick with the Baldwins into the 70s was PRSL.
Ed
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Subject: Re: (erielack) May calendar shot
Another problem with Baldwin products is that their MU system was
pnuematically actuated therefor they could not MU with anything but
themsleves. The early
Alco S-class switchers and RS1's that were MU capable used a different
size
MU cable with fewer pins than today's 27-pin standard jumpers making
them
incompatible, also. Some railroads modifed their units to overcome these
problems
but most Baldwins remained unaltered throughout their service life.
Certain
schedules of airbrake equipment were also not compatible preventing some
models
from MUing with others.
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