PRR E8As Used on Special Ohio Trip

[Anonymous]

Courtesy of www.trainorders.com
A special Chartered Passenger train will roll through central Ohio on two routes of the former Pennsylvania RR today, Monday, August 2.

The train consists of privately-owned passenger cars and will be pulled by two restored Pennsylvania RR diesel locos owned by Bennett Levin.

Both locos were built by Elecrto Motive, one in 51 and the other in 52, purchased by the Penn and later belonged to Amtrack & Conrail. They were purchased by Bennett
from NS & CSX after the conrail split and restored.

The parlor lounge car was built by Budd in the 1950s and originally traveled the rails as part of the Sunset Limited and was re-built in 2002.

The PRR business Car was built in Altoona in 1928. It's greatest claim to fame is that
it carried the remains of Robert Kennedy from New York to Washington DC.

The car re-entered service in 1991 after being rebuilt.

[AntonioFP45]

I have a really neat Windows Media clip of the two beautiful Pennsy E8s coupled together cruising by slowly to pick up a passenger special. The engineer of the lead E-8 was blowing a K3 horn. [4:-)][tup]

Go to www.dieselairhorns.com On the left side click on "Video Library". When the screen opens up, scroll down and click on "PRR EP22 K-3LA.WMV

As you view the clip, look to the extreme left and you'll see the passenger train waiting for the E-units.

[BRAKIE]

Chuck,Two guesses where I was at from 8:30 yesterday morning till about 11:00.. Yup,Track side waiting to see these beauties from the past roll through town..The surprise came when the switch to the connector track to the old PRR FT.Wayne line would not throw..They stopped the train in the Benson yard and the units ran around the train and used the old connector to get on to the old Ft..Wayne line to head east toward Pittsburgh.
For a Monday morning there was around 100-125 people there from teenagers to a old chap about 90 years old. [:D] Of course the train made Banner Headline news in the Saturday's Bucyrus newspaper announcing the train would be through town Monday...I suppose that is why there was a large turn out of the general public...
What I notice the most was the large turn out of teenagers both boys and girls that was taking pictures or video taping the train..[:D] I also over heard one lad of about 15 telling his friend it was cool watching trains.[:0 Of course the NS being the NS ran 2 freight trains ahead of the "Speical"..[:D]

[Anonymous]

I went to Harrisburg on Saturday, they went thru Harrisburg on Friday [:(!][B)][xx(][V][:(][:O][banghead][censored][soapbox][tdn]

I always miss those things, I used to always see them in Conrail paint but I haven't seen the units in PRR (yet).

[Anonymous]

One more thing, I've been thinking about modeling these units in both CR paint and PRR paint, they'd fit in on the AS&N.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dougal

One more thing, I've been thinking about modeling these units in both CR paint and PRR paint, they'd fit in on the AS&N.

They 're cheap enough at TW, $40.00 to $50.00. I have the E7s C&O-Pere Marguette
older run, 23 oz, excellent top end speed. Close enough for me.