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New York Central

Sometimes forgotten is that the New York Central - still the Boston & Albany to many people - also used Boston's South Station. Road jobs like The New England States traveled to Albany and on to Chicago, but their commuter trains were fairly well traveled, too. NERailer Dave Wright tells me the Central "had service to Worcester, Milford, and on the Highland Branch (now the Green Line Riverside route) in the 1950s."
Christopher Marshall responded to my question regarding who built the engines.
"I checked the 'Second Diesel Spotter's Guide"(Kalmbach), he writes.
"Lima apparently didn't give any of their diesels a model number - or at least the book doesn't list any. The book says there were 16 'Light Road Switchers' built in 1950, and all for the NYC. They were first numbered 5800-5815 and then renumbered to 6200-6215. Lima apparently planned 750 hp, 1,000 hp and 1,200 hp units, but all that were built were 1,200 hp. Like the Alco RS-1, they are the same diesel engine and hood as similar switchers."

Photographed by Leo King, June 7, 1954.
Added to the photo archive by Leo King, June 5, 2004.
Railroad: New York Central.

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