RE: (erielack) Extant DL&W diesels

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

> Going by my Conrail Volume 1 roster in the back of the book, 
> if the number
> was never changed I have some now 8 year old slides of an ex-DL&W EMD
> switcher (and it probably is, given the added-on side 
> handrails) in eastern
> Indiana on a remnant of Pennsy track.  I think the town is 
> New Castle.  It's
> not far from the only existing former Lehigh & New England S1 
> (which you can
> see the L&NE lettering and stripe on it's hood through the 
> current paint) -
> both serve grain elevators, the L&NE unit on a remnant of the NYC to
> Louisville I think, below Anderson.

That's timing! This photo was just posted a few weeks back:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=129417

The unit is the one you're talking about, I think. It's former DL&W 562, soon to become New York & Atlantic. DL&W SW1200, still running strong!

	- Paul

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