Last (?) LNE diesel in the US for sale

robertjohndavis · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:10 am **Posts:** 2499

Will, don't shut up... probe, ask, push... it's good.

Sandy, I don't think the WP&E counts as an anthracite road, didn't the power plant burn b-coal?

Rob

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:07 pm

robertjohndavis wrote:

Sandy, I don't think the WP&E counts as an anthracite road, didn't the power plant burn b-coal?

Not sure about the one up on the WP&E, but the one at Shamokin Dam burned both anthracite and bituminous when built, but in the later days pretty much burned anything they could get--and the loss of the northeastern Pa. anthracite mines after the Knox Mine disaster pretty well restricted what they could get to some token anthracite by truck and from the Reading spur. I suspect the same thing applied for the power plant up at Stanton on the WP&E. (BTW, a quick double-check confirmed the loco was an Al;co S1, not an S2, b/n 78394.)

David H. Hamley · **Joined:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:07 pm **Posts:** 705

Re West Pittston-Exeter Alco #6:

"was an Al;co S1, not an S2, b/n 78394.)"

You're both wrong, the 6 was an S3.

alcoguy1 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:12 pm

The value of preservation of a locomotive is partly based on ones relation to it. Since my grandfather was an engineer for the L&NE, and I have pictures of him on several pieces of equipment, including 611, this particular locomotive is special to me. Of course I can see it being "just another" S2, but then again it's the sole diesel survivor of an all Alco(diesels anyway) road, one of the first roads to be completely dieselized, and the first(and only?) US railroad to go out of business while in the green.

-Alex