Re: (erielack) November Trains Picture

[Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com]

The caption in Trains says that the photo is from May 1950, but there's
still snow on the ground!  And the engine is belching steam like it's 20
degrees out.  I bet you the photographer took the picture earlier on (like
in February or March) but didn't have the photos processed until May.



                                                                           
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My guess would be a short light-engine move. I doubt that they would expend
a crew to move a single loco to the scrapper; on such a trip it would be
dead-in-tow. BTW, what's a 2-9-0, a decapod that's lost a wheel perhaps?
;-)

Paul B

There is a picture in the Lackawanna article on page 55 of a 2-9-0 running
light across the Deleware viaduct in 1950.  I'm wondering about this
picture.  Was this engine returning to the B&P after being serviced at Port
Morris or was it on its way to scrapping at Scranton?  There's no way of
knowing, but it is something to speculate about.

Ed Montgomery


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