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Nostalgia & History > One for the NYC fans...Date: 07/16/06 07:47 One for the NYC fans... Author: yardclerk Found this on the ABPR newsgroup yesterday posted by Larry Johnston.
No location info given. Chicago maybe? Yardclerk  Date: 07/16/06 08:04 Re: One for the NYC fans... Author: MacBeau Rode the 5th Avenue Special eastbound behind a pair of these as a "small boy;" didn't know the landscapes of Indiana and Ohio could go by so fast.
Mac Date: 07/16/06 08:30 Re: One for the NYC fans... Author: retcsxcfm Gotta be St.Louis.
Uncle Joe Date: 07/16/06 09:21 Re: One for the NYC fans... Author: aehouse I agree with Uncle Joe. With that curved throat trackage, it has to be St. Louis Union Station.
Art House Date: 07/16/06 16:17 Re: One for the NYC fans... Author: yardclerk Here is another NYC E8 4039 posted by Larry Johnson on the ABPR newsgroup. This one is obviously Chicago.
 Date: 11/15/19 07:04 Re: One for the NYC fans... Author: raytc1944 I worked for the NYC for five years before PC and CR. Rode hundreds of miles behind and in the cabs of these beauties. They rode so smooth and I loved the sound of the twin V12s. They were classed as DPA5 on the Central
Date: 09/02/26 21:23 Re: One for the NYC fans... Author: illini73 yardclerk Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Here is another NYC E8 4039 posted by Larry > Johnson on the ABPR newsgroup. This one is > obviously Chicago. The train is arlmost as interesting as the locomotives. No RPO, and two Budd-built Slumbercoaches which were leased to NYC from 1959 to 1964. That makes it very likely train 26, 20th Century Limited. |