10-23-2010, 03:11 PM
The whole time I was growing up on the "Mainline" outside Philadelphia and for the many years I lived there after the Army, I can only remember ever seeing a diesel on those tracks (GP 30's & GP35's) on long freights as helpers.
It was mostly all GG1's on passenger service, and E33's and E44's on mile-long freights (plus the omnipresent mP54 MUed "Red Cars," as everyone called them, even though they were faded Tuscan Red ... the "growlers" was their other nickname.)
[If memory serves, it was GG1 #4938 that got restored to Brunswick Green with the five gold stripes and was always spotless as she came through Narberth, PA at about 80+ mph, leaning into that curve in the late afternoon with one of the named, through trains bound for Harrisburg on the inside westbound track. What a sight!!]
Green Elite Cab can probably fill you in ... he seems to be the resident authority on Juice Jacks!
It was mostly all GG1's on passenger service, and E33's and E44's on mile-long freights (plus the omnipresent mP54 MUed "Red Cars," as everyone called them, even though they were faded Tuscan Red ... the "growlers" was their other nickname.)
[If memory serves, it was GG1 #4938 that got restored to Brunswick Green with the five gold stripes and was always spotless as she came through Narberth, PA at about 80+ mph, leaning into that curve in the late afternoon with one of the named, through trains bound for Harrisburg on the inside westbound track. What a sight!!]
Green Elite Cab can probably fill you in ... he seems to be the resident authority on Juice Jacks!
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln