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



Common, if not "typical", in kind if not in degree -- New Yorkers will get
it if I say imagine Tom Wolfe writing "Bonfire of the Vanities" about
railroads instead of about the city, and he would have come out with
McGinnis's New Haven.  An overdrawn fun-house mirror, but on a basic level,
disturbingly reflective of reality.
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From: Paul S. Luchter <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:02 PM
Subject: 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?
> >> 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
>

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