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Date: 11/10/25 07:43
Monday Meets: EMD meet ALCO!
Author: santafe199

This ain’t your typical meeting of trains. But I doubt that anyone will complain… :^)

1. AT&SF F-unit 38 L shares bunk space with Alco PS 68 L in Chicago, IL in May of 1960.
Ashland Car Works copy slide, photographer is unknown.

Thanks for looking side by side!
Lance Garrels
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Date: 11/10/25 08:01
Re: Monday Meets: EMD meet ALCO!
Author: SP4360

Cool pic. Thanks for posting it Lance.

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Date: 11/10/25 08:21
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Author: Chico56

Cool photo, amazing how clean that PA is!
Bryan

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Date: 11/10/25 08:31
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Author: Gonut1

Nice!
Gonut

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Date: 11/10/25 08:44
Re: Monday Meets: EMD meet ALCO!
Author: train1275

Beautiful !!
All thumbs up !!

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Date: 11/10/25 08:49
Re: Monday Meets: EMD meet ALCO!
Author: PasadenaSub

Beautiful photo!  Did Santa Fe have locomotive wash and refueling facilities near Dearborn Station, or would the power have been serviced further south (and west) at/near Corwith Yard?

Rich

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Date: 11/10/25 08:51
Re: Monday Meets: EMD meet ALCO!
Author: PHall

Interesting to see how they adapted an EMD designed paint scheme to work on the PA and to still have it look good.
Especially the cigar bands on the noses.

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Date: 11/10/25 09:25
Re: Monday Meets: EMD meet ALCO!
Author: santafe199

PHall Wrote: > ... Interesting to see how they adapted an EMD designed paint scheme to work on the PA ...

Bingo! I've thought the very same for a long time. SFe even found a decent application for the impossible DL 109:
( https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,6014754,6014754#6014754 ). Sorta... :^/

Lance



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Date: 11/10/25 09:55
Re: Monday Meets: EMD meet ALCO!
Author: UP3806

PasadenaSub Wrote:
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> Beautiful photo!  Did Santa Fe have locomotive
> wash and refueling facilities near Dearborn
> Station, or would the power have been serviced
> further south (and west) at/near Corwith Yard?
>
> Rich

Coach yard and passenger locomotive facilities were located around 21st street about half mile south of Dearborn station.

Tom

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Date: 11/10/25 09:56
Re: Monday Meets: EMD meet ALCO!
Author: Milwaukee

With no silver overspray on the red nose of either unit!   Did that overspray not become common until a latter date?   

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Date: 11/10/25 13:16
Re: Monday Meets: EMD meet ALCO!
Author: refarkas

Best of both worlds!
Bob

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Date: 11/10/25 13:45
Re: Monday Meets: EMD meet ALCO!
Author: PHall

Milwaukee Wrote:
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> With no silver overspray on the red nose of either
> unit!   Did that overspray not become common
> until a latter date?   

IIRC it started in the mid-sixties or so.

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