Re: (erielack) Algoma Central

["J.K. Blay" <mail_@_joshuakblay.com>]

I wonder...

Where tea kettle did that heater car from?
Is the AC still in passenger business?  I wouldn't think CN would have
kept in the passenger business after they bought WC.

Joshua

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> At 05:33 27-10-2006, you wrote:
>>From: "Tim Stuy" <njmidland_@_verizon.net>
>>Subject: Re: (erielack) Are these for real?
>>
>>I don't have the photos any more, but EMD did send some F unit
>> demonstrators
>>to the Algoma Central in what looked like DL&W colors.  I don't remember
>> if
>>the AC ever owned them, but I assume that is what got them to using the
>> DL&W
>>style paint scheme on their locomotives.
>>
>>Tim
>>
>>On 10/25/06, Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul) <paultup_@_lucent.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Check out this Ebay auction-
>> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120044101298
>> > >
>> > > Did EMD actually paint F3 Demo units in DLW colors?
>> > > I must say I like their choice!
>> > > Al Reibel
>> >
>> >
>> > Not to the best of my knowledge (it looks a little too "awkward" for
>> it to
>> > be an EMD scheme with the "ELECTRO-MOTIVE" inside the maroon stripe.
>> >
>> > Maybe it was a "dream scheme" based on the two E8s that EMD *did* do
>> up in
>> > DL&W paint with "ELECTRO-MOTIVE" where "LACKAWANNA" would appear.
>> These
>> > units - EMD 810 and 811 - later became DL&W 810 and 811.
>> >
>> > Also note that the yellow lettering inside the maroon band didn't come
>> > about until EL years. The scheme would have been more believable if
>> the EMD
>> > name appeared in maroon below the stripe - as on the E-units.
>> >
>> >         - Paul
>> >
>
>
> The Algoma Central up until the 1990's used a paint scheme that was very
> very close to EL GMY.  Almost exact to me.    Memory fails me but they - I
> think - always used passenger Geeps on their trains.  When the Wisconsin
> Central bought the Algoma Central in the mid 1990's, the WC bought some CN
> FP9A's and repainted them in modified historic AC colours.
>
> I'm attaching some pix from I've collected over the years to give everyone
> a better idea. .
>
>
>
>
> Dale
>
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