Re: (rshsdepot) "450-Ton Locomotive at the Waldorf-Astoria"

["JIMBEAR" <ribear_@_cox.net>]

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>From: "Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
>To: "RSHSDepot" <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:55 PM
>Subject: (rshsdepot) "450-Ton Locomotive at the Waldorf-Astoria"


It must have been an ALCO PA1-PB1-PA1 demonstrator set.

> How many other diesel engines ever entered the Park Avenue tunnel?

NH EMD FL9s did it for years. Some of them are still running for
Metro-North. Normally they ran on 3rd rail power or used the overhead
catenary thru the puzzle switches, but there's an old story that towards
the end of the NH era, the FL9s weren't being maintained properly and
often had to run on diesel all the way into GCT.  Supposedly the Park
Avenue tunnel was never so free of vermin, before or since.   ;-)

> Paul Luchter
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