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Re: (erielack) More Hoboken stuff

vze3fhdr wrote:
> 
> All the ferries in the EL days were still coal fired except one. That
> was the Lackawanna. IIRC, They, whoever "they" are , took the engine
> and generator from a Geep, and converted the boat to Diesel-Electric.
> It was probably very cost effective, but came too late to save the
> service.

EMD engines also had marine version which was different than the 
locomotive version.  The engines (think there were two)in the Lackawanna 
would have had watercooled manifolds, watercooled exhausts and probably 
a different design generator and control and other marine features.

bob gillis

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