Please allow a brief clarification to some modern era misinformation that was on this list recently. Ed Montgomery wrote about seeing an NJT train with two diesel locomotives. Someone replied claiming that this was a new practice on NJT perhaps due to heavier coaches or longer trains. Ed then replied: The MU-ing of NJT engines on the Greenwood Lake grades makes sense. (I say Greenwood Lake because that's not the real Boonton Line.). My brief response: NJT trains are not programmed to run with two locomotives. I can't speak to the specific train Ed saw; perhaps the original locomotive had a problem, or the second locomotive was added as a means of shuttling it from Hoboken or the Meadows Maintenance Complex out to Port Morris yard to swap out for a failed locomotive, or one due for a Periodic Inspection. For a time there was one 12-car Multilevel trainset running on the Northeast Corridor with two ALP 46 electric locomotives but that consist has since been broken up. Now back to the past.... Rich Wisneski Denville, NJ The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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