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Re: (erielack) Re: Lackawanna Diesels
Yeah, Sam, there was a bunch of steam engines stored there when I was in highschool. At the time (1953-54) I was dating a girl whose house overlooked several tracks with deadlined steamengines. I kept thinking 'I'll have to drive up from West Pittston & take some pictures of these engines'. Never did it & by 1955 I was in the USAF (procrastination is the greatest enemy of folks like us). My folks all worked for the Lehigh Valley at Coxton & when I was on leave, I took fotos there, but it was all diesel by then. When I transferred to the 'DL' side, I'd use the company phone in the West Pittston station and while talking to the agent (a longtime DL&W man) I told him I'd run an engine with the centercabs number. He said he hated that engine when he worked Bridge 60 but he thought it was gone. Of course it was a different engine. The operators name was Harry Logan (from Clarks Summit) and he said he'd been working at Lehigh tower when the 4-6-2
doubleheading an Eastbound passengertrain blew up in the cut West of the tower. He told me "It rattled the windows of the tower when that thing let go". I'll bet !!!
Regards to all,
Walt Smith
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From: Sam Weibel <weeb_@_centurytel.net>
To: EL Mail List <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Wed, December 9, 2009 6:51:16 AM
Subject: RE: (erielack) Re: Lackawanna Diesels
Walt I remember as a boy in about 1955 or 56, my Grandfather, a DL&W
employee, taking my brother Bill and I to the Keyser Valley Shops, the IR
center cabs, about 5 of them were all parked in a line inside one of the
shop bays. I remember climbing all over them and getting filthy dirty, the
foreman said they were there while the DL&W decided what to do with them, he
said they had their batteries and some fuel still aboard and could be
started but, he didn't know how. He also said he would put his money on them
be scrapped before ever running again. That is what happened as six months
later on another visit they were gone. Sam Weibel...
- -----Original Message-----
From: walter smith [mailto:wsmith5957_@_yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:57 PM
To: Harold R. Brink PE; EL Mail List
Subject: (erielack) Re: Lackawanna Diesels
Harold,
I started on the former ERIE in Youngstown, Ohio....& after merger, went
to Scranton (DL side), then NY Div'n (Erie side), then Binghamton &
Syracuse.
To answer ur question, the DL&W had center cab switchers (I've seen a
foto of one in Scranton) but this was a pretty old one & numbered in a
sequence that was same as an EMD SW 1200. I got in an argument with an old
operator who hated the centercab switcher acct. when it sanded on the
interlocking at Bridge 60 it caused switches to jam up. I soon realized we
were talking about 2 different engines. By the time I got to Scranton
(1960-61) the centercab was gone.
As for roadpower, the DL&W side was pretty much EMD/ Fairbanks - Morse & a
few Alcos here & there like Kingston which had 3 RS2s for a while & when I
worked there was changed to 3 SW1200s.
There WAS a wierd-looking centercab at Hoboken which was 3-power
(battery, diesel, & electric w/ pantograph) this engine mainly worked around
Hoboken/Secaucus, If u can call that 'roadwork'. That's about it. There's a
foto of this wierdo in one of the Taber books.
Have a great Christmas, Harold.
Walt Smith
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From: Harold R. Brink PE <hbrink_@_earthlink.net>
To: Walter E. Smith <wsmith5957_@_yahoo.com>
Sent: Tue, December 8, 2009 9:02:16 PM
Subject: Lackawanna Diesels
Walt, you are pretty smart...
...someone told me if I started a question like that I'd always get an
answer.
Walt, did the Lackawanna have center cab road diesels?
If so what were they?
Or am I remembering a "fake" Lionel locomotive from my distant memory?
Thank you.
Harold Brink
PS, you worked for DL&W/EL, correct?
HB
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