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Nostalgia & History > Almost Sixty Years Ago - Rock IslandDate: 09/01/26 23:20 Almost Sixty Years Ago - Rock Island Author: refarkas It is October 2, 1969 in Erie, Pennsylvania. A trio of ex-Rock Island ALCO trade-in units sits inside the General Electric locomotive plant. All three of these had been repowered with EMD engines earlier in their lives.
Bob  Date: 09/02/26 00:03 Re: Almost Sixty Years Ago - Rock Island Author: Seventyfive Certainly one of the most unusual A-B-A locomotive consists I have ever seen.
Are those NYC Flexi-Vans passing behind the Rock power? Thanks for this excellent historical photo. Date: 09/02/26 05:04 Re: Almost Sixty Years Ago - Rock Island Author: dan Funits from the UP allowed this perhaps?
Date: 09/02/26 06:25 Re: Almost Sixty Years Ago - Rock Island Author: mvrr10 Thanks for the photo , I thought the same of how this A -B -A lash up looked . The NYC Flexi-Vans are passing on the former NYC mainline that passed the GE-Erie plant , always interesting to see what there was in the yard .
Date: 09/02/26 09:18 Re: Almost Sixty Years Ago - Rock Island Author: refarkas As those were being traded in, they weren't working on the trip to GE.
Bob Date: 09/02/26 09:42 Re: Almost Sixty Years Ago - Rock Island Author: wabash2800 I suspect they were sitting on the backlot at Silvis for a while too.
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