Re: (erielack) EL RS3 leases to CNJ

["Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>]

Paul, Tim and List,

The date on the photos is 8/73. In one of them, several other locos are visible, all CNJ, most unlikely after 4/1/76 when CR promptly began reassigning locos. So there is little reason to question the date. Also I thought EL's RS's were all stored soon after C-day. I doubt an RS would be in the SE-98/ES-99 pool; these were heavy trains on stiff grades, and all the photos I've seen have second-generation power on these runs. Perhaps it's assembling the return leg of a transfer job?

Paul B

At 09:09 PM 4/27/2007, you wrote:
>George Elwood's site has been updated today with a series of photos of EL
>RS3 1050 at CNJ's Elizabethport, NJ engine facility and yard. In at least
>two of the photos, it appears the CNJ crews are using the engine to switch
>the yard.
>
>Another oddity: The 1000-series RS3s were primarily kept on the west end of
>the road, so how did this guy get here? Was it a short-term lease to the
>CNJ, or was it simply one of the pool units for the SE98/ES99 joint
>freights?
>
>         - Paul

Paul:

I photographed a pair of EL RS3s switching E'port in the early 
Conrail era.  Do you have a date on the photo referenced in the 
fallen flags site?  I suspect it is a post-merger shot.

Tim Costello


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