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Re: LIRR needs to improve ROW maintenance; new dieseld |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Oct 3 10:54:19 2007, in response to Re: LIRR needs to improve ROW maintenance; new dieseld, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Wed Oct 3 10:38:22 2007. The train in the photo (and excuse the quality, as it's one of the only ones I ever took) was the C1, the double decker test train that ran from around 1991 (don't quote exact year), to when the C3's began to arrive. It ran on the then "premier" LIRR line which was the Port Jeff line until it began to be canibalized in status to Ronkonkoma. Anyway, it began by running with converted GP38-2's that you see in the photo. It then ran with Chicago Metro E8's (??) for many years. Then it ran for a few years with converted and rebuilt (disaster) former Metro North FL9's)..... The GP38's and the Metra engines handled them best. |
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