Re:(erielack) EL Power Pool Question(s)

["Bill K." <pontiac_@_dreamscape.com>]

Fairly well documented that EL could get pooled power off the CB&Q/BN, 
Milwaukee, and occasionally Rock Island.  RI and Milwaukee generally did not 
come very far east.  During the Dereco years, D&H power occasionally ran 
through or was borrowed, too.  Probably the oddest picture I've seen is a 
D&H C628 at Sterling, Ohio.  Although RI units on the east end in one of the 
In Color books is a close second.

I was 2 when the EL ceased to be, so I can't give any in-person reports, 
unless you consider BNSF units on the Syracuse branch as odd - which ran 
through in the NYS&W era (imagine two full-BN green units, cut off and 
tucked aside on the lead that once led to the Magnolia Street engine 
facility so an NYS&W F45 and a leased, CP-red M636 beloning to the D-L, can 
couple onto the train the BN units just brought in... ).

After the BN merger, any BN road unit could potentially appear, although 
most every picture I've seen tends to be six-axle road units, usually green 
SD45s, both blue and green/orange GN units did come through.

NKP pooled with the LV, but not with the EL that I'm aware of. 
Interestingly the N&W would later continue this practice, even while it 
owned/controlled the parallell EL (this would result in a SP SD40, and UP 
cabooses, making Sayre, plus I've read rumors of a one-time shot of BN units 
running through as well... but that's kind of O/T).

Actually though that does lead to a more interesting question.  In the later 
days of cabooses, some cabooses could run through in a pool arrangement just 
like locomotives.  This led to the aforementioned UP caboose on the LV, as 
well as N&W cabs also turning up.  Did any other road's cabooses pool on the 
EL?



Bill K.




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> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:10:28 -0500
> From: Fred Stratton <erief7_@_msn.com>
> Subject: (erielack) EL Power Pool Question(s)
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> This is a multi part question which may turn out to be very interesting. 
> First did the EL ever exchange power with the NKP? Did the EL ever 
> exchange power with the Great Northern with the locos having the green and 
> orange paint? And finally an observation question, What is the oddest 
> foreign power seen on the EL that you have seen? (individual's 
> observation, not photo) Mine wasn't so spectaculater, a BN SD45 heading a 
> westbound at Sparrowbush, NY august 1971. Anyone care to blog?
>
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>
> Fred Stratton
> Boonton & Greenwood Lake RR in HO Scale
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> Salisbury, NC 28147
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