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From: "David MonteVerde" david AT gvtrail DOT com
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 17:13:00 -0400
Subject: Lackawanna had a x-steam loco tender to pinch hit for a drawbar FTA unit when one was in the shop
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Lackawanna had an FT with a steam loco tender. The tender B unit was taken
July 1954, and the shot with the Milk Train was taken during the time these
trains were stranded at Tobyhanna During Hurricane Diane August 1955.

Comments



Gerard Geisler From the
days when the F unit sets were semi permanently coupled with a draw bar. The
steam engine tender acted as a compromise car to allow an F unit set missing
one of its A units to be coupled to a train.



David J. Monte Verde These shots
are at Tobyhanna where there is a pusher wye


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Mike Del Vecchio
These photos are Ron Amberger's Magnum Opus, as they are the best yet seen
of the tender X600 in service and they'll keep his byline alive for as long
as historians study the Lackawanna. The top photo appeared in Sheldon King's
book describing it as being in Tobyhanna during the '55 flood.



Ronald
Amberger Right in Sheldon King's book. The trains were stranded by flood
wash outs. The milk from the milk cars was dumped on the ground.



Mike Del Vecchio
Ron, do you recall the date of the lower photo?



Ronald
Amberger
Mike Del Vecchio It was July of 1954. Westbound between Mt. Pocono and
Tobyhanna.


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