Re: (erielack) MU's, was: EL fantrips

["Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com>]

Think of the freight power needed to get over Pocono summit!! As long as 
they were going to Scranton, wouldn't it have made sense to electrify to 
say, Dalton, to overcome Clarks Summit, too??

Tom B

> By the way, the DL&W originally planned to electrify using 3000v DC all 
> the
> way to Scranton, so as to at least partially eliminate steam, particularly
> for freight, over the Poconos.  The idea was dropped because of the
> Depression.  And although dead MUs were pulled over the Cut-Off in the
> post-WWII era, due to the spike in patronage, imagine if electrification
> had occurred that we could have had MUs travelling westbound at 75 mph 
> over
> the Cut-Off under catenary.  Now that's a fantasy! 



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