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

I guess this is why this railroad went bottom up, was this typical of other
railroads in the 50s?
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From: JIMBEAR <ribear_@_cox.net>
To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
Date: Thursday, March 07, 2002 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) "450-Ton Locomotive at the Waldorf-Astoria"


>You got it exactly right, Steve. In fact after scrapping or storing most of
their
>electrics, they realized they were paying a small fortune in fuel for
diesels
>that were hauling freight under the wires. All they had left were the 10
EP-5
>passenger electrics and a few of the EF-3 freight units. The freight units
had
>been stored in the open for several years. Weather and vandalism had taken
>their toll; it would have cost $200,000 per unit to rebuild them.  Luckily,
>they were able to buy 12 five-year-old GE units from the N&W ( which
>was ending electric operations over it ex-VGN route) to haul freights from
>Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven to the Oak Point, Harlem River, and Bay
>Ridge Yards in NYC.  They got all 12, plus spare parts for the bargain
>basement price of $300,000 ( they cost the VGN $267,000 each in 1957)
>
>Jim.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steven Delibert" <stevdel_@_prodigy.net>
>To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
>Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 7:39 AM
>Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) "450-Ton Locomotive at the Waldorf-Astoria"
>
>
>> Paul -
>>     For New Haven under McGinnis to have planned to dieselize through
>> operations was even crazier than most people realize -- if I got the
story
>> right, they built the FL-9's and scrapped all those electrics on a study
>> that showed they would save the cost of maintaining all that catenary,
but
>> forgot that they still would have to keep the catenary up for the MU
>> commuters, only have less use for it.  Given traffic densities, Amtrak
has
>> finally done now what New  Haven should have done decades ago, extending
>> electrification to Boston.
>>     Steve Delibert
>
>
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