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Re: (erielack) Re: ALCO plant farewell
I agree, Todd..........one of the members of our NRHS Chapter here brought in
4 builders fotos from the 1920s to be auctioned off - proceeds into the club
treasury. One was of a 2-8-8-0 Mallet from a small RR out West (I forget which),
one 0-6-0 tank engine for a logging RR, I forget the third, but the best & my
favorite was a 0-8-0 heavy switcher for the CNJ builder date of July or August
1929. I remarked to the club 'Just in time to selloff everything before the
crash'. It was a beautiful locomotive and reminded me of the DL&W 200 class
0-8-0s rebuilt form the freight 4-6-2s. NOW if he'd had a builders foto of a
1600 class, I'd have bid it to the limit. This is the 2nd time ALCO builder pics
have come to the club. The prints were about 10 x 20 inches mounted on heavy
cardboard. The other time was when I got the charter for the Chapter from NRHS
and we started having meetings. One of the guys appeared with a leather covered
binder holding oblong prints (B&W of course). He told me he used to work in
Schenectady for ALCO in the 1940s.
God only knows what's in the attics of the retirees down here........one guy
gave me a small print of the Milwaukee streamlined 4-4-2 pulling a train. No
info, but what a shot. Another is of a FEC streamliner in B&W...no location & I
asked the guys who've been here a while (especially the FEC buffs). No idea.
Regards to all
Walt Smith
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From: Todd Hollritt <thollritt_@_yahoo.com>
To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
Sent: Sat, December 11, 2010 9:59:41 AM
Subject: (erielack) Re: ALCO plant farewell
Lots of interesting posts and discussion about the demise of the ALCO plant
since I posted the news. Back in 1964 the Erie Lackawanna bought their last Alco
locomotives, and they rolled out these doors in October of that year, EL never
purchased another Alco product after that. But history tells us at least six
Erie Lackawanna C-425's, and seven C-424's (And some S-1's, S-2's and S-4's) are
still with us today, long after most all of the GE's and EMD's of that era have
gone to scrap! That says something.
But, going further back, just think what it was like to design and work on
locomotives in those buildings back in mid-1930's, the "Super Power" era of
steam locomotive production was beginning. Many a famous locomotive was born
here. I must say, my personal favorite Alco products to roll out the erecting
shop doors were the "Q" series of "Pocono" built for the Lackawanna Railroad
from 1927 till 1934.
Todd ~
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