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Published: 2012-02-17 17:53:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 263; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 0
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For those of you who don't know, this is where I work - as a mechanic at the Morristown & Erie Railway in Morristown, NJ. This is #18, one of our two main locomotives (along with #19). Both are ALCO C424's built in 1964 for the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad and bought by the M&E in 1984. Here, #18 is idling away outside the shop this morning (February 17, 2012).My lunch break is over, so I've gotta get back to work! Today's project: disassembling and cleaning the parts of a set of former Southern Railway passenger car trucks.
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Sweet! Are these just museum pieces, or do they do revenue work?
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Revenue work! These have nothing to do with a museum - I work for a freight railroad!
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Nice! Glad to see those things still in action. Must be fun working on them, though replacement parts must be a bit of an issue... Saw a couple of Alcos in the ozarks a few years ago, very impressive machines. Did you used to post on a model railroad detailing site?
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I do still post on Diesel Detailer occasionally if that's what you're talking about.
Replacement parts aren't a huge issue, as the Alco 251 diesel engines that these things use are still produced by Fairbanks-Morse for marine use.
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It's a small world! Also, glad to know that. Hope they stay running for a long, long time
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It's been 48 years already!
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