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Re: (erielack) December calendar picture

Paul, et al,

In reference to the Weekend Chief calendar for December, the caption is
wrong.  Unless they decided to put the PAs on the hind end and shove the
train all the way to Binghamton, that's not Train 21!  The through line
train is going railroad eastbound. (I know, it's really heading south
through the city!)  Considering the time of year it would be dark before
Train 22 went through town, and even later for Train 8.  Therefore, this
would seem to be Train 26, which originated out of Hornell, but only carried
passengers from Binghamton, where it connected with the Lake Cities, east.
Train 26 would have been due through Passaic (it didn't stop) about 9:10 am,
but I suspect the westbound commuter train in the photo is 1157, which would
mean that 26 was running at least 25 minutes late.

Regards,

Vinnie


On 11/30/10 1:10 AM, "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)"
<paul.tupaczewski_@_alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:

> 
> In the home stretch! The last mont of the year...
> 
> The ELHS/ELDCPS calendar features a very "classy" black-and-white image of
> Lackawanna 4-6-0 #1011 on the armstrong turntable in Newton, NJ on the Sussex
> Brnach in 1939. Several able-bodied individuals are seen rotating the
> locomotive. This locomotive is (I believe) the only 4-6-0 to get the "wings"
> streamlining, and it looks very new and shiny in this image. IMHO, the extra
> drivers beneath the wing really helped "balance" out the wing, much moreso
> than the 4-4-0s that had this streamlining. Too bad no more Moguls got this
> treatment, and too bad it was so short-lived! :(
> 
> The Weekend Chief calendar has a delightfully "chilly" image of Train 21 on
> the mid-street trackage of Passaic, NJ on a snow-covered February 1963 day.
> There's a LOT of neat old stuff to see in this image - the cars, the
> billboards and business signs, and of course, two-tone green PAs! Note the odd
> "striped" pattern of the snow atop the cab roof - where there anti-skid tape
> strips up here?
> 
>         - Paul
> 
> 
> 
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