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Re: (LVRR) Locomotive switch at NK Tower
- Subject: Re: (LVRR) Locomotive switch at NK Tower
- From: Dennis Rockwell <dennis_@_bbn.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:43:27 -0400
- In-Reply-To: Message from "rottoa_@_inforworks.com" <rottoa@inforworks.com> <5.0.0.25.2.20041011080816.009e1040@mail.spa.net> .
On 11 Oct, "rottoa_@_inforworks.com" wrote:
> Does anyone know the procedure used to switch from the PRR mainline's
> electric locomotives to the LVRR's steam power at NK Tower in Newark, NJ
> for LVRR passenger trains? I know the overhead wires extended for a
> distance from the PRR mainline out toward NK Tower.
There's a two-page cab-ride photo essay on this process in
one of Don Ball's PRR books; the one set in the fifties, I
think. It shows a GG1 meeting a pair of PAs.
I can look it up to make sure if you'd like.
Dennis Rockwell SPF(N) dennis_@_bbn.com Cambridge MA
Modelling the PRR Wilkes-Barre branch in 1954.
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