RE: Rahway Valley Photo was Re: (erielack) FW: NYSW List - M orristown & Erie ( Off topic)

["Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>]

The other unit is sitting with the URHS equipment in Morristown.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: donald kern [mailto:doubletrack_@_comcast.net]
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 12:58 PM
> To: Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul); Erie Lackawanna Mail List
> Subject: Re: Rahway Valley Photo was Re: (erielack) FW: NYSW List - M
> orristown & Erie ( Off topic)
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> what about the Other 70 ton GE they had   where is it?
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> Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul) wrote:
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> >Chuck Walsh wrote:
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> >>>One additional point: correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe 
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> >>that the DL&W
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> >>>(and maybe later the EL as well) owned a significant chunk 
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> >>of RV stock
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> >>>similar as to what was done with the L&HR and to a lesser 
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> >>extent the Nickel
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> >>>Plate.
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> >I always thought the RV was a purely independent, 
> family-owned road. (The Clark family, if memory serves me). 
> From an investment point of view, I can't see why the DL&W 
> would want any part of the RV. The interchange, as others 
> have pointed out, was minimal. The RV's ownership was similar 
> to the Morristown & Erie - a family-run entity (in the M&E's 
> case, the McEwan family). In fact, the parallels between the 
> RV and M&E are interesting: Both roads served many local 
> industries along their lines; the endpoints of the lines 
> interchanged with different Class 1 roads; and both roads 
> replaced their steam fleet with a pair of diesels (though M&E 
> bought their almost a decade apart, while the RV got them at 
> the same time)
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> >Here's a question: Interchange was performed at Summit - but 
> where did they park the interchange cars? Behind the layover 
> yard? There's not much room there, so I was curious where 
> they did this.
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> >As an aside, the Whippany Railway Museum is now restoring RV 
> 16 to its as-delivered deep-red-and-yellow paint scheme. It 
> will sadly not run, since during its long period of storage, 
> the exhaust stack was uncapped and the engine block got 
> filled with water.  More details can be found at: 
http://www.whippanyrailwaymuseum.org/eq_rahway.htm
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>	- Paul
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