(erielack) NKP engine 759 at Binghamton - June 1970

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I was working a yard job on the Erie side when the 759 arrived with about 14 
or 15 cars, She's on the ERIE W/B track at the East end of the ERIE yard. 
This is how it might have looked in Binghamton if the much-wanted NKP - DL&W 
merger went thru.  
   I'm not sure if it was this trrip or another, but one of these engines 
laid overnite at the DL&W passenger station. I was working the passenger 
drill & when we tied up for lunch, I spent my 30 minutes in the cab talking 
with the guys who were keeping her alive overnight. When I was a kid, I hung 
around the LVRR roundhouse at Coxton & later the PRR roundhouse at 
Wilkes-Barre. Nothing like drying out ur rainy jacket on the backhead of the 
boiler of a PRR 2-8-0 or 2-8-2. 
      When I got off in the morning, I hung around & took a fiew pix of the 
guys greasing & servicing the eng prior to departure. I'll see if I can find 
those pix too.

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