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Roadtrip, Just got back from a GATS in Knoxville and was looking thru a Fall '91 issue of "Trains illustrated" I acquired and there's more info an the D&H's PAs and Sharks. The D&H acquired the PA1s from ATSF in 1967. There is a photo of one of the PAs running in D&H paint in 1969 on the Montreal-New York 'Laurentan' . Apparantly sometime shortly after this the New York-Montreal service was idled due to Amtrak gobligoop and financial woos at D&H. The PAs were utilized elsewhere on the D&H system however, and if memory serves me right, in freight service too. Not sure about this-just memory. . .In 1974 the Alco PA1s and D&H passenger equipment was refurbished as stated in my earlier post, and the PAs were upgraded from PA1s to PA4s. The Baldwin RF16s were acquired from the Monongahela Railway in 1974 and immediately repainted and pressed into freight service. Now the good part for your hypothetical acquisition of one of the D&H Sharks: the Sharks were retired in late 1977, along with the forced retirement of the D&H president, and the PAs followed suit in 1978. Without digging into this any deeper right now, I am certain that the PAs ended up in Mexico in 1978 and according to "Trains illustrated", the Sharks may have gone 'south of the border' in 1977; article, as is my memory, a little vague-intentionally? Business is 'conducted' a little differently at times in Mexico, so you've got all kinds of creative scenarios as to how you got one to Minnesota. . .
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