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From: Todd Hollritt thollritt AT yahoo DOT com
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:59:13 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Great Notch images
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Tonight I am sending a collection of my all time favorite EL locomotves, the EMD GP-7. The jack of all trades "Geep" looked and sounded fantastic, and could be found hauling everything from a work train to road freight. Here's a sample of of what I photographed.
The 1400 is on the weed sprayer at Great Notch, this was the one that met the Silver Lake drill I posted a couple days ago. It was a former Erie passenger locomotive. All of these engines are former Erie actually. Next is the Totowa Roustabout at Great Notch, this train always rated a GP-7 or two at times if the train was heavy enough. One of the very first photographs of the EL I ever took was this image of the 1232 on a work train at Great Notch. Two photos of the 1226 on the Totowa Roustabout, it was doubling the hill westbound. The 1238 is spotting an EL gondola in the Great Notch yard with a work train. I included two more eastbound Totowa Roustabout shots, nothing sounded better than a single GP-7 working hard upgrade at Great Notch! Then we see 1233 at Lake Jct. paused almost at the exact same spot it was wrecked a couple years prior when a runaway off the New Connection struck this locomotive! The Re-Built GP-7 1233 has
numerous modifications visible and was the only Geep to get white number boards. (pieces of the wrecked 1233 could be found in the woods nearby today!) Then we see the 1240 on the Dover Drill, then the 1233 at the Great Notch crossovers, wish I had video, she was really slipping on wet rails after a summertime rain shower. And finally a sunset photo of the 1234 and second GP-7 eastbound near the yard heading to Croxton with the Roustabout. This train headed westevery weekday at around 10am and returned around 5pm give a take an hour or so.

One of the EL GP-7's lives on, I have one of the Leslie Tyfon A-200 air horns off Erie Lackawanna 1237! :)
Todd ~

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