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



Thanks, Joe. That certainly seems to be the definitive answer.

Jim.
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Brennan" <brennan_@_columbia.edu>
To: "Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>; "RSHSDepot" <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:31 PM
Subject: (rshsdepot) Re: "450-Ton Locomotive at the Waldorf-Astoria"


> 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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> railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
>


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