RE: (erielack) U34CH sound

[Michael Sheehy <njnyrr_@_optonline.net>]

They *were* loud! Standing outside my house in Park Ridge on the Pascack
Valley Line, I could hear them accelerating out of the station, about a mile
away, not to mention the horns.  There was a train that rolled through about
11:25 PM that I could hear from my bed if I was still up (the window faced
east, direction of the station).

The locomotives were in NJDOT colors, but the cars were co-branded E-L and
NJDOT (E-L diamond decal towards the rear by the windows, NJDOT arrow
forward) Many people still said they were riding the Erie Lackawanna, out of
habit, or not realizing after 1976 that it was really NJDOT.  When I was
younger, I was under the mistaken impression that E-L still existed but was
controlled  by NJDOT because of this co-branding, probably because someone
told this unknowing young railfan that.

And at the  risk of repeating myself I like the NJDOT colors over the
polyester disco stripes. Any day.  And the arrow was cool.

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Subject: Re: (erielack) U34CH sound


Ok..
12.
On a cold Winters day, sitting on the big heater enclosure next to the
control stand in the cab, with the house style vent blowing blowtorch hot
air up
at you.. If you were laying in an ice bath, that heater would COOK you in 5
mins..Damn near paint peelin hot..
13.
Feeling the lateral motion of the worn outness of them later on...
14.
Hanging your head out the window in 8th notch uphill by Chester Jct and
hearing the traction motors purring.
15.Looking back leaving Lake Hopatcong Station and seeing black smoke  and
flame, rocketing up from the stack, like you could never imagine.
16. Looking back at the running boards 8th notch over stick rail and seeing
all the rusty engine compartment doors chattering..
17.
Best of all.. In the midst of full throttle, with the roar of the  U34,
Looking over my right shoulder seeing Veteran Lackawanna engineers,  who
happen to
be looking over their left shoulders, smiling back at  me, knowing I was
having the time of my life :-)

- -Pat



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