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From: tommy meehan tmeehan0421 AT gmail DOT com
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 07:34:25 -0500
Subject: DL&W 3001 at South Brooklyn
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Gaps in the Steamtown Collection Filled--X6957 thru X7035--December 29,
2019.

I was very interested in the photo X6973 of Lackawanna's South Brooklyn
(25th Street) yard. Present in the photo is Alco/GE/IR boxcab diesel 3001.

http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-12-29-19/X6973.jpg

There was another photo of 3001 at 25th Street, taken the same day,
December 6, 1929, posted here last May.

http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-05-23-19/X6976.jpg

It shows the same engineman and official on board as does the photo from
Sunday.

The locomotive 3001 was ordered in late 1925 and delivered in June 1926,
for use in Lackawanna's Brooklyn yard. This was to comply with New York
State's Kaufmann Act that banned the operation of steam locomotives in New
York City. Lackawanna had to inform the New York State Public Service
Commission as to how it planned to comply with the Act. I'm attaching an
image of an excerpt from the PSC's 1925 annual report briefly explaining
that DL&W planned to dieselize the 25th Street operation and that the
Commission approved. (The Act was later invalidated by a federal court.)
The locomotive is referred to in the report as an oil-electric as was
common at the time.

tommy meehan


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