(erielack) Foreign/Pool Power on EL

["Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>]

Some minor additions:

N&W: have seen a pic of units in Croxton in Nov '72. I believe the
Cannonballs ran til late '73/early '74, but all the shots I've seen of these
trains had EL units.

PC: have seen a shot of a PC set on UT-74 near Corning, Aug '75. NE-97 was
switched at Meadville and terminated (in the 70's) at Marion; either place
would have been a good one to turn the power back on NE-74/UT-74, if trains
were reasonably on time (or equally late).  (Was thinking the PC folks were
very perturbed that they hadn't been able to kill this traffic by this time;
the darn bridge even burned!)

Foreign units can also show up on short-term leases to cover power
shortages. This may have been the case with the MP units reported on
yesterday's post. Or they may have slipped through on ECE, since N&W had a
runthrough with MP to Little Rock starting about 1972, and power will
sometimes go beyond the pool point if the yard is short on engines.

Question for Paul T: several weeks ago, you posted a photo of EL and CRIP F
units: did you ever find out where it was taken?

Paul Brezicki

So, going back to all the earlier posts, let's summarize what ran on the EL
(folks, please feel free to fill in the "???" sections or correct my
guesstimated dates)

- - BN (and GN/NP/CB&Q) roadswitchers - circa 1970-1972 (usually stopped power
at Port Jervis)
- - CNJ roadswtichers - circa 1972-1976 - pool power between Lake Jct and
Scranton
- - D&H C628's - usually west of Binghamton - circa 1967-1972
- - N&W units of all kinds (on "Cannonballs" and "Expediters") - circa
1967-1970?
- - MILW roadswitchers - circa 1968-1974?
- - PC roadswitchers - circa 1970-1974 - between Port Jervis and Maybrook,
runthroughs
- - RI roadswitchers  - circa 1966-1968

Feel free to keep adding to this list!

I've seen photos of EL F-units with Soo Line units sitting behind them in
some yard in Minnesota - does that mean Soo units ended up on the EL as
well?

Joshua Blay's list of stuff that ran on the Syracuse Branch intrigued me.
Was that list all during EL years? I can't imagine how an L&HR C420 would
end up there!  Can anyone clarify that one?

- - Paul


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