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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



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