This 1928 Saturday evening Post ad reads: A new fleet of thoroughbreds to haul the new York Central limiteds This winter a new fleet of thoroughbreds of the rails - the giant "Hudson" type locomotives - is being placed in service...
I just want to cry thinking that not one of those beautiful locomotives was preserved for us to drool over and touch once in a while. Thanks for more history, Roger. :tb-sad:
Gorgeous! I'm not old enough to have seen that ad, but I'm sure my brother (at the tender age of 1) remembers seeing it....:tb-wink: However, I did go into and out of La Salle Street station four times between November, '45 and May, '47. Of course, at 10-12 years old, I didn't think to look and see if we had a J or E at the point. However, at El Paso I do remember that we had a SP War Baby (well, it was black) hauling the Golden State in November, '45. OK, so I don't have clue why I remember that, but it made a strong impression regardless, as did the returning GI on the Golden State who gave me a K-Ration chocolate bar. My mother was NOT happy with my hogging the toilet for the next few hours.... :tb-ooh: :tb-biggrin:
I'll join you in that lachrymose feeling for the Hudsons and add some more tears for those beautiful Niagras(4-8-4). CT
1928 I was the engineer on the Goshen Switch Run about 1963-64 and had an older NYC man firing for me. We started talking about how they run the passenger trains between Toledo and Elkhart. I asked him if I was correct about a 70 mph speed through Goshen. His answer was yes on the speed limit. How did it ride at 70 and his answer was ,I don't know because the engineer's would not slow down to that speed. My guess was they were making about 20 per above the 70. It was a joy to watch them go through Goshen.LEW
LEW, so good to see you back again. Keep sending us your experiences firing and running on the NYCS. :tb-biggrin:
