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The EMD E8 is a 2,250-horsepower (1,678 kW), A1A-A1A passenger-train locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of La Grange, Illinois.A total of 450 cab versions, or E8As, were built from August 1949 to January 1954, 447 for the U.S. and 3 for Canada. 46 E8Bs were built from December 1949 to January 1954, all for the U.S.
4109 painted in heritage Central Railroad of New Jersey scheme. EMD GP40PH-2B: 4200–4219 1965–1969 1993–1994 19 Ex-Penn Central. 4208 painted in Conrail heritage paint scheme. 4210 painted in Erie Railroad heritage paint scheme. 4219 was rebuilt from GP40PH-2A 4148, which was damaged in 1996. [1] EMD F40PH-2CAT: 4119, 4120 1981 2
Erie Railroad prospered throughout the mid-1950s, but their profits were simultaneously on a decline. The company's 1957 income was half of that of 1956; by 1958 and 1959, Erie Railroad posted large deficits. The Erie's financial losses resulted in them entering negotiations to merge with the nearby Delaware, Lackawanna and Western.
The Buffalo Branch of The Erie Railway Company owned on the date of its demise 62.281 miles of single-track, standard-gage, steam railroad between Attica and Hornellsville, N. Y., which had been acquired from a purchasing committee who had acquired it at a foreclosure sale on March 21, 1861, from The Buffalo and New York City Railroad Company.
The Erie Lackawanna MU Cars were a fleet of electric multiple unit commuter railcars used by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (D&LW) and successor railroads in the state of New Jersey. The D&LW undertook electrification of its Morristown Line and related branches in 1929–1930, and purchased 141 motor cars from Pullman to operate it.
Ex-CN FPA-2U rebuild as 6758 previously numbered as 6755 and delivered new as FPA-2 6711. FPA-2U rebuild 6759 previously 6751 and delivered new as FPA-2 6707. Retired 1987, 6758 now operated by New York and Lake Erie Railroad. MLW FPA-4: 6760-6793 1946-1959 1979–1993 Ex-CN. Several acquired by private train operators in US. MLW FPB-4: 6860 ...
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The Erie Lackawanna Railway was formed on March 1, 1968, as a subsidiary of Dereco, the holding company of the Norfolk and Western Railway, which had bought the railroad. On April 1, the assets were transferred as a condition of the proposed but never-consummated merger between the N&W and Chesapeake and Ohio Railway .