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Re:Re:(erielack) Re: Erie Steam Locomotives



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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