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From: JJordan eltrainmaster AT copper DOT net
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:52:24 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) DL&W STEAM
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Walt-

This seems to be a picture of the unit you described. Taken in 1973 in
Florida.

-Joe Jordan
Train Nut Central

At 04:31 PM 6/22/06 -0400, Walter Smith wrote:
>
> It wasn't DL&W steam, but the next best thing...............a BLW 1200
>HP diesel switcher that had been purchased by the OLD Auto-Train and
>followed me to Florida. Until this time, we'd switched Sanford, Fl yard
>using one of the GE road engines. One day I heard "Walt Smith come to Mr.
>Olson's (VP/operations) office". I did as instructed and Mr. Olson said"We
>decided to get you a switcher, Walt & it'll be here on the SCL freight
>tomorrow" Imagine my surprise to see the old Baldwin in the GMY color
>scheme sitting under the palm trees at the North end of the yard.
>Some of the roundhouse crew came out & put jumper cables on the batteries
>and - IT RAN.
>Resurrected from Naporino or wherever, we put her right to work. I had a
>brake handle from one of the E-8s (814, I think) and had it chrome-plated. I
>used it all the time until Auto-Train went bankrupt.
> A few days later, I was summoned to the office for a little conference
>about how to number the switcher (the road engines were numbered 4000 to
>4004 for the first 5). I suggested that she keep her old EL number, so the
>first engine became #621 just like at Hoboken or wherever she worked. I
>personally never ran across this engine in Binghamton or Scranton but became
>very familiar with her at Auto-Train. A couple years ago, I posted some
>fotos of her still in the GMY paint under the palm trees with a yellow UPRR
>sleeper coupled on for that days train. I wonder how many of the listers saw
>the foto. We later bought 2 of the 4-stacker Baldwins from the Western
>Pacific and a 1000 hp Baldwin from the navy yard in Bremerton, Washington.
>They all were sequentially numbered from the EL 621. About 1975 or so an
>Alco S-2 was purchased from the SCL who had purchased it from the
>Burlington. It was the final switcher bought by Auto-Train.
>Regards to all,
>Walt Smith
>
>
>>From: John Payne
>>Reply-To: John Payne
>>To: "Montgomery, Edward T" ,
>>erielack@lists.elhts.org
>>Subject: Re: (erielack) DL&W STEAM
>>Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:28:45 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>Isn't it amazing how short sighted people were then with regard to
>>retention of equipment with regard to museums and memorials? Were it to
>>happen these days you can be sure plenty of 'em would have been kept or
>>donated. But, with the rush to modernize and looking at costs $$$$$$, out
>>they went! Absolutely amazing that not one survived!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John Payne
>> Milford Connecticut
>>
>>"Montgomery, Edward T" wrote:
>> Well it's June and the 53rd anniversary of the end of passenger steam on
>>the DL&W. From what I have gathered over the years it appears that most
>>of the DL&W steam engines were tied up in Buffalo or Scranton when the
>>diesels took over. I started to wonder: How long were these engines
>>stored? Who scrapped them? Were they shipped off-line to a place like
>>Luria Brothers?
>>
>>
>>
>>Just some thoughts for those who might have answers.
>>
>>
>>
>>Ed Montgomery
>>
>>
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