Eastern Railroad Discussion > E Units In Illinois

3 E8A's in Bensenville, Illinois stored for the SLRG along with a Iowa Pacific GP40FH-2

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You caught an old friend with the green Marc engine.  All the more reason for me to get cracking and scan in my slides from the 1990's.
Many a time living near Kensington MD would I see the green Marc engine being used for cab control.  I wonder if it's the same engine. 
 

rustyr0824 Wrote:
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> You caught an old friend with the green Marc
> engine.  All the more reason for me to get
> cracking and scan in my slides from the 1990's.
> Many a time living near Kensington MD would I see
> the green Marc engine being used for cab control.
>  I wonder if it's the same engine. 
>  
​The green MARC engine was NOT a cab car rustyr0824.  For a few years MARC owned 6 former Burlington E-units that were actual locomotives with HEP and they operated on the former B&O lines between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. and between Brunswick, Maryland and/or Martinsburg, W.V. and D.C.  The only cab unit that MARC owned was a former B&O F unit #7100 which operated fully painted in MARC colors and has now been retired for about 5 or 6 years and has been given to the B&O R.R. Museum in Baltimore.  When MARC purchased additional new locomotives, the former Burlington units were retired and sold off.
​John in White Marsh, Maryland

Hey John, thanks for the info.
I guess it was 7100 that I was thinking of.
But I didn't think that one was green I thought it was in some old MARC colors.
I would have to look at old photos.
But thanks for the tip.

Rusty
Stafford VA