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From: Paul Tupaczewski paultup AT comcast DOT net
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 03:06:42 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Fwd: RE: (erielack) Steamtown Images-September 9, 2019--X Series
(X7624-X7629) IDs
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Here's the article Rich was trying to forward earlier...


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Tupaczewski
> > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2019 3:30 PM
> > To: erielack@lists.railfan.net
> > Subject: Re: (erielack) Steamtown Images-September 9, 2019--X Series
> > (X7624-X7629) IDs
> >
> >
> > Google is a big help... I found this posted to this very list by Henry
> > Yarusik back in 2006 (!!!):
> >
> >
> > "I recently acquired on eBay an article from Railway Age dated
> >
> > March 11, 1933, entitled "Operation of Three-Power
> >
> > Locomotives". The article deals with the Lackawanna's unique
> >
> > "hybrid" electric-diesel-battery locomotives.
> >
> > The gist of the article is that the engines were quite successful. "
> >
> >
> > And doing more Google searching, the article is available for free as an
> > eBook. Here's a link to the article (make sure you get the entire URL, it
> > wraps around):
> >
> >
> > https://books.google.com/books?id=nHZCAQAAIAAJ&dq=railway%20age%20March%2011
> > %2C%201933&pg=PA363#v=onepage&q&f=false
> > [https://books.google.com/books?id=nHZCAQAAIAAJ&dq=railway%20age%20March%2011](https://books.googlecom/books?id=nHZCAQAAIAAJ&dq=railway%20age%20March%2011)
> > %2C%201933&pg=PA363#v=onepage&q&f=false
> >
> >
> > So it's a little confusing, looking at their chart on page 366. It seems to
> > indicate that there was catenary ("trolley") between Jersey City and
> > "Klondike" (which appears to be a small yard off the Boonton Line between
> > West End and Secaucus Yard), between Secaucus and Kearney Junction (so I
> > assume overhead wire from Secaucus, around the wye at West End, and west to
> > Kearny), and from Secaucus to Jersey City. The small map on page 364 seems
> > to indicate there was catenary (or trolley wire in their terminology)
> > between West End and Secaucus Yard but not past that (it notes in the table
> > on page 366 that there is "no overhead wire" between Klondike and the
> > Hackensack River). So.... where did that overhead wire stop? Klondike? Or
> > right at the entrance to Secaucus Yard?
> >
> > - Paul
> >
> >
> > > On September 9, 2019 at 9:05 PM Rich Chapin wrote:
> > > I, too, remember a article on the tri-power. FD&S had one, v8#2, not
> >
> >
> > sure if that's what you're thinking of. Seem to think an old Railway age,
> > but that will take some time ;)
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Paul Tupaczewski
> > > To: erielack
> > > Sent: Mon, Sep 9, 2019 2:07 pm
> > > Subject: Re: (erielack) Steamtown Images-September 9, 2019--X Series
> >
> >
> > (X7624-X7629) IDs
> >
> > > Bob Bahrs replied:
> > >
> > >
> > > >Some work was done at the Kingsland car shops, but I couldn't tell
> >
> >
> > you what. No wire to there, they had to be towed dead. Tri
> >
> > > >powers were delivered in Sept and Oct of 1930.
> > >
> > > I thought I read in an article about the tri-powers that they actually
> >
> >
> > had one track electrified from West End to Kingsland (and I thought I
> > remember seeing those "stubby" catenary poles on the south side - I will
> > need to go back through my photo collection). It was an article written by
> > (or for) GE extolling these hard-working units in a "day-in-the-life" type
> > style.
> >
> > > The article (if I remember it correctly) stated that they worked under
> >
> >
> > wire from Hoboken to Kingsland, and then ran under their battery power over
> > the Harrison-Kingsland cut-off, and then returned back to Hoboken under
> > electric catenary power. Am I mis-remembering that? Does anyone else know
> > the article I'm talking about?
> >
> > > - Paul
> > >
> > >
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