RE: (erielack) Semi-OT: NJT/NJ DOT E8 4324 paint job

["Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>]

Quite right Gary.  I didn't read Tom B's question correctly.  The trucks remained A-1-A.

SGL 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org 
> [mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org] On Behalf Of Gary R. Kazin
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 11:21 PM
> To: EL List
> Subject: RE: (erielack) Semi-OT: NJT/NJ DOT E8 4324 paint job
> 
> They couldn't make them C-C trucks because there was no room 
> for a traction motor on the center axle - EMD faced the 
> motors on the two outer axles toward it.
> 
> --- Schuyler Larrabee <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net> wrote:
> > It turns out that it was a good deal more complex than it sounds. 
> > Change the gears and head out to pull freight?   Not quite. 
>  They had
> > to change out the wheels because of the size of the gears, so they 
> > ended up riding on different size wheels (40" instead of 
> 36", I think, 
> > do not quote me on that.)  That changed the height of the couplers, 
> > and so they needed to be modified.  There were other 
> changes as well, 
> > including speed recording equipment.  It was a lot of work.
> > 
> > OTOH, EL got a lot of miles out of the E8s after the 
> conversion, using 
> > equipment that would otherwise have lain idle.
> 
> Gary R. Kazin
> DL&W Milepost R35.7
> Rockaway, New Jersey
> 
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