Re: (erielack) DL&W NW-2s- Could They MU?

[jwmutter_@_comcast.net]

Hi Bob,

Looking for the photo I mentioned earlier, I came across a photo caption in Robert Liljestrand and David Sweetland's book EL Diesel Locomotives, Volume 1 Switchers, page 37, which states that MU capability was added to 481 to ensure two MU-capable units were always available.

And I need to correct my previous post....according to the same photo caption, the units were purchased for a road freight assignment on the Bloomsburg Branch.  However, I recall another photo, which I can't find right now, which did say the units were used in EL years for transfer to/from Taylor.  I'll keep looking for that one.

Jeff Mutter



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From: Dlw1el2_@_aol.com
> I think this question came up many years ago and I think I then gave a  wrong 
> answer via a quick look into Preston Cooks all color book that has a  
> detailed roster at the back of it.   I again gave a quick  look at it several 
> days 
> ago and gave the wrong answer again.   The  Erie Power book which I don't have, 
> has the correct answer in regards to the two  Lackawanna switchers ( not three 
> ) that were MU able.  The  481 came as a separate one unit order but it was 
> not MU capable.  I  think I will finally make a correction in Preston's book.   
> :(    482, and 483 are the correct answer for the two Lackawanna  Alco 
> switchers that were MUable.
>  
> Per one of my good former Scranton Shop friends, one of their  haunts, when 
> they would be MUed was working the Pompey mine run at  Scranton.  This Breaker 
> on the NYS&W was accessed via the O & W  after the Lackawanna's Winton Br was 
> abandon.  My article in Vol 12 No 1  of the Diamond and Vol 14 No 1 of Flags, D
> iamonds and  Statues  on motive power assignments for April 12, 1957 showed 
> both of  those two engines working in Hoboken on separate passenger drills that 
>  particular day.
>  
> Also, for the record, a builders photo I have of 482 confirms MU  receptacles 
> on both ends of the unit.
>  
> Bob Bahrs
>  
>  
>  
> In a message dated 12/2/2008 10:35:02 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> jananran_@_mymailstation.com writes:
> 
> ERIE  POWER shows these MU-equipped switchers:
> 
> ERIE 520, 521, 522, 523 (EL  same) - ALCO S-2
> ERIE 526,527  (EL same) - ALCO S-4
> ERIE 650-665 -  LIMA
> DL&W 482, 483 (EL 541, 542) - ALCO S-2
> 
> Often, switchers  were set up to multiple only with their siblings and only 
> at the  cab.
> 
> 
> 
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