Got a question maybe for Paul or one of the DL&W guys, As I was growing up in Scranton I used to see the FT sets on a daily basis grinding up the hill past my Grandfathers house at the end of Myrtle St across from the Petersburg Silk Mill. Sometime in the 50’s the 602 set had its booster taken out and the cabs were coupled back to back with drawbars, same with the 603 set, I believe the 602 booster was put in the 601 set, and the 603 booster went to the 604 set making them both 4 unit sets with all units having drawbars between units. As the locomotive diagram for these units show that the boosters were the only units with batteries and toilets, how did the double A unit couplets get started and how did they use them without toilet facilities, seems to me the unions would have pitched a gripe, Also the 602-603 AA sets lasted for years in pusher service, even into the EL years as 6021-6024,6031-6034, both coupled back to back and pushing up the hills. Another aside, you could always tell the difference in sound if a train was going upgrade from the Nay Aug tunnel with the 4unit FT’s on the point, maybe it was the 4 exhaust stacks versus 2 on other EMD locomotives, they just had a distinctive sound, more like a hot rod. Another memory was the dynamic brake sound on the FT’s again it sounded different as they would head eastbound around the super elevated curve just past Ash St. and down the hill to the tunnel. - -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.1/355 - Release Date: 6/2/2006 The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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