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

[Joseph Brennan <brennan_@_columbia.edu>]

No, they would have entered through the door at 101-121 E 49 St.  Photo
at the bottom of http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/gct61.html

I looked at the Times index for that story and missed it.  Middleton's
book mentions this event.

Joe



- --On Tuesday, March 5, 2002 23:55 -0500 "Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com> wrote:

> 
> Here we have the horse's mouth. The NY Times article September 23, 1946. The American Locomotive
> Company's 6000-horsepower Diesel-electric locomotive that will head to Santa Fe RR system to be
> used between Chicago and Los Angeles,  "was exhibited on the Waldorf's private siding beneath the
> hotel...Today and tomorrow the public will be admitted to inspect it." I don't think they entered
> through the Post Office....a month later GM displayed theirs in Chicago.    
> How many other diesel engines ever entered the Park Avenue tunnel? 
> Paul Luchter


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