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

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

Daniel,
Yes, the first group of 30 FL-9s (2000-2029) did have small roof-mounted
pantographs to provide electrical power thru the GCT puzzle trackage where
third rail could not be laid. There's a good, close-up picture of the pantographs
in J. W. Swanberg's NEW HAVEN POWER (NYC electrics also included
small pantographs for the same reason). The second group of thirty FL-9s was
built without them. And all I actually said was that they were still running for
Metro-North because I wasn't sure whether or not they were still running into
GCT.

Jim.

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


> In a message dated 3/6/02 12:38:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, ribear_@_cox.net
> writes:
>
>
> > 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.
>
>        Two corrections.  First of all, the FL-9's have third-rail shoes, but
> do not have pantographs and therefore could not use overhead catenary (which
> does not exist at GCT or in the Park Avenue tunnels, anyway).  Secondly, the
> operation of FL-9s under diesel power occurred not only during the New Haven
> era, but also very recently, under the operation of Metro-North.  In fact,
> while, to the best of my knowledge, these FL-9's are no longer regularly
> assigned to trains running to GCT, they still could be in an emergency.  And
> it is also possible that the electric power of the Genesis engines that
> replaced them could, on occasion, malfunction.  So you could possibly find a
> diesel engine in GCT even today!
>
>                    Daniel Chazin
>                    Teaneck, NJ
>
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