> That is not near as bad as working with electric locomotives such as > those > on the Milwaukee (GN, BAP, NYC or PRR). Those transformers used an oil > as > coolant because it could get very hot without changing to a vapor-- > poly-chloro-biphenols, or PCBsa. When these oils needed to be replaced, > the plug(s) were > removed, and oil drained onto the ground (or old ash pit) where it > remained > decades later. What's more, the courts held that American Premier Underwriters -- the descendent of Penn Central's non rail assets (i.e., anything not Rail related. Did you know that Grand Central was not rail related, so taxpayers didn?t get the money-making part of Penn Central?) **did** have to pay for clean up of years of dumping PCBs at Paoli -- and IIRC at Harmon as well. [As Michael Corleone raged, "Every time I think I'm out, they keep pulling me back!"] > I have no idea what coolant the DLW MU cars used to cool electrical > equipment, but I do not think it was PCB oil. So maybe NS would have to clean up through the Dereco lineage? Betcha the trial transcript on that case would be the best history of the DL&W, its electrification, and E-L ever written <g>. Cheers, Jim The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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