Post your Train shots!
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The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western's letters stand proudly on the Bush train sheds at the Hoboken, NJ terminal. These platform canopies were a unique design, eschewing the large vaulted arches which were common in the era in favor of low profile cantilevered roofs with slots centered along the centers of each track to provide ventilation for steam locomotive exhausts and skylights to illuminate platforms. Inventor Abraham Lincoln Bush was the DL&W's Chief Engineer. [Kodachrome, Nikkormat FTn]
Patrick M
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Delete if you’ve seen it, but I only just did....
https://youtu.be/i49BesMwKF4
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That was so cool!
Ooh, here comes the caboose!
These were Baldwin DT-6-6-2000s and the EJ&E was by far the largest buyer of them at 26 units. The "J" was a good Baldwin customer and found them well suited for lugging heavy steel mill tonnage, as well as road switching. After a decade of service, the J decided to remove the less-than-satisfactory Baldwin 606SC engines and replace them with EMD 567s. The flared perimeter around the base of the hoods you can see was added during the rebuilds, as the 567 was a wider engine and needed a hood with greater space.
The big Baldwins were nearly gone when I started taking pictures, so I treasure this one. My mother called these Pushmi-Pullyus, as per Dr. Doolittle.
These were Baldwin DT-6-6-2000s and the EJ&E was by far the largest buyer of them at 26 units. The "J" was a good Baldwin customer and found them well suited for lugging heavy steel mill tonnage, as well as road switching. After a decade of service, the J decided to remove the less-than-satisfactory Baldwin 606SC engines and replace them with EMD 567s. The flared perimeter around the base of the hoods you can see was added during the rebuilds, as the 567 was a wider engine and needed a hood with greater space.
The big Baldwins were nearly gone when I started taking pictures, so I treasure this one. My mother called these Pushmi-Pullyus, as per Dr. Doolittle.
Thanks for filling me in. The rads, hoods & exhaust stacks do have an EMD look about them, but not those trucks. If you'd been shooting color you'd have had a lot of orange slides.
