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Re: (erielack) EL RS3 leases to CNJ (2)

Just after the end of the EL, Conrail had transferred a batch of former Erie 
Lackawanna RS3s to the Pavonia Yard in Camden, N.J. The idea was to replace 
the remaining PRSL Baldwins with the EL RS3s.
Carl Perelman

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Behrendt" <rbehrendt_@_columbus.rr.com>
To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: (erielack) EL RS3 leases to CNJ (2)


> On the contrary, I believe CR ran all that they could after 4/1/76, 
> including any remaining EL Alco RS2's/3's - CR was power-short from the 
> beginning, even leasing power from various sources (CN, BAR, etc) to keep 
> up w/traffic.
>
> I was going to school in Kent, OH at the time, and photographed the local 
> out of Youngstown several times w/RS's on the point (including one that 
> had a CNJ caboose working in Ravenna).  This lasted at least through 
> mid-'77, probably 'til they experienced a major failure.
>
> I recall photographing several in dead storage at Brier Hill in late '77, 
> maybe early '78, taking some detail shots, knowing that this might be the 
> last I'd see of the RS's....
>
> Rich Behrendt
> ELHS #384
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
> To: "EL Mailing List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>; "Paul Tupaczewski" 
> <paultup_@_comcast.net>
> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 6:08 AM
> Subject: Re: (erielack) EL RS3 leases to CNJ
>
>
>> Paul, Tim and List,
>>
>> The date on the photos is 8/73. In one of them, several other locos are 
>> visible, all CNJ, most unlikely after 4/1/76 when CR promptly began 
>> reassigning locos. So there is little reason to question the date. Also I 
>> thought EL's RS's were all stored soon after C-day. I doubt an RS would 
>> be in the SE-98/ES-99 pool; these were heavy trains on stiff grades, and 
>> all the photos I've seen have second-generation power on these runs. 
>> Perhaps it's assembling the return leg of a transfer job?
>>
>> Paul B
>>
>> At 09:09 PM 4/27/2007, you wrote:
>>>George Elwood's site has been updated today with a series of photos of EL
>>>RS3 1050 at CNJ's Elizabethport, NJ engine facility and yard. In at least
>>>two of the photos, it appears the CNJ crews are using the engine to 
>>>switch
>>>the yard.
>>>
>>>Another oddity: The 1000-series RS3s were primarily kept on the west end 
>>>of
>>>the road, so how did this guy get here? Was it a short-term lease to the
>>>CNJ, or was it simply one of the pool units for the SE98/ES99 joint
>>>freights?
>>>
>>>         - Paul
>>
>> Paul:
>>
>> I photographed a pair of EL RS3s switching E'port in the early
>> Conrail era.  Do you have a date on the photo referenced in the
>> fallen flags site?  I suspect it is a post-merger shot.
>>
>> Tim Costello
>>
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