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Nostalgia & History > Penn Central - 11/16/1968Date: 03/19/18 23:06 Penn Central - 11/16/1968 Author: refarkas NYC 4019 and Penn Central 5769 are two of the locomotives at Penn Central's engine facility at Collinwood Yard in Cleveland, Ohio on November 16, 1968.
Bob  Date: 03/20/18 05:26 Re: Penn Central - 11/16/1968 Author: gcm Nice shot!
Gary Date: 03/20/18 05:49 Re: Penn Central - 11/16/1968 Author: cornerfieldhobby Holy cow. Talk about a photo with awesome quality. This is so so cool. PC, NYC and another NYC green paint version all in 1 photo is very very nice.
Date: 03/20/18 07:31 Re: Penn Central - 11/16/1968 Author: krm152 Those were the days! Great that you recorded them.
Note the Eaton stack in the background. ALLEN Date: 03/20/18 10:25 Re: Penn Central - 11/16/1968 Author: CPR_4000 cornerfieldhobby Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Holy cow. Talk about a photo with awesome quality. > This is so so cool. PC, NYC and another NYC green > paint version all in 1 photo is very very nice. Green? You mean the E7? Could just as well be NYC passenger gray. Date: 03/20/18 19:54 Re: Penn Central - 11/16/1968 Author: JLinDE One NYC E7 or E8 was painted in NYC jade green like their freight cars prior to the PC merger but I do not know which number it was....
Date: 03/20/18 22:57 Re: Penn Central - 11/16/1968 Author: tunnel88 I never realized some of these units made it to green - looking into it E8s 4053, 4083 and E7B 4108 were the lucky units. There are a number of photos online, one showing all three together.
http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/images/nyc-4083.jpg Date: 03/20/18 23:50 Re: Penn Central - 11/16/1968 Author: Atlpete NYC contemporaneously experimented with an all black version on at least one E-Unit #4055 as well.
(prophetically the freight "cigar band" scheme sans white stripe almost identical to the PC's doomsday end of time version ) |