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Re:Re:(erielack) Re: Erie Steam Locomotives
- Subject: Re:Re:(erielack) Re: Erie Steam Locomotives
- From: "Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:52:47 EDT
Chuck --
Anywhere that was flatish, not too curvy, not too hilly. An engineer with a late train and a grain of salt would do his best.
One of the last places they ran was in commute service on the New York Division. They might have been a little slow out of the many stops, but in between -- HANG ON!
In the summer of 1948, while earning my fare to the Chicago Railroad Fair, I commuted on the Northern. As our train came chuffity-chuff off the Northern onto the main and into the Arches, there would be #6 arriving from Chicago behind a K-5, just loping along with its hands in its pocket and looking forward to a rest. It was on time.
Randy Brown
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Randy,
I'm curious...at 79 inches, where on the Erie system did the K-5s or K-5As "stretch their legs"?
Chuck
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