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From: Daniel McFadden dan DOT mcfadden AT gmail DOT com
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:19:42 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) Steamtown Images-September 9, 2019--X Series
(X7624-X7629) IDs
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I have a copy of the November 1931 issue of the General Electric Review which is totally dedicated to the Lackawanna Electrification.

They have quite a bit of detail on the Tri-Power units including a map of the electrified territory as it effects the freight operations.

Unfortunately, I cannot scan without breaking the spine of this magazine so I took a picture which is attached.

The article states that the specific purpose of the electric engines was smoke abatement from freight operations in the Bergen Tunnels. They term it "tunnel-run service".

This map shows catenary running right into the Hoboken Freight yards if I read it correctly.

Dan


On 9/9/19, 3:31 PM, "Paul Tupaczewski" wrote:


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%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 ;)
>
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> -----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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