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RE: (erielack) Trainmaster Tribute



> A friend of mine at work just put a copy of an August 1973 
> Trains magazine
> on my desk. This issue contains an article called, 
> "Trainmaster Tribute". A
> small section is devoted to each of the railroads that owned them. The
> Lackawanna writeup talks about the 12 Lackawanna TMs and how they were
> Fairbank-Morse's first sale. FM put together an advertising 
> brochure, "The
> Lackawanna Story" where they told about TMs in Lackawanna 
> freight, suburban
> and passenger service. One of the b&w photos shows 10 Erie 
> Lackawanna TMs
> (#850-859) rounding a curve in Binghampton, N.Y. on June 24, 
> 1968. They are
> being led PA unit #852 en route to an equipment dealer. What 
> an impressive
> lineup! Does anyone have a scanned copy of this photo? 
> Anybody have the FM
> brochure?


Ummm... I would assume the TMs were EL 1850-1859, not 850-859. And I would
also assume this photo is in Trains, not the FM "Lackawanna Story" brochure?
:)

	- Paul

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