Give me an "E"

[JoeKoh]

While picking up Matt at his pre-school we saw CSX with leased power.2 hclx sd 40-2s and a burlington northern E unit 9923. It was heading east. I dont know if it made a turn in Deshler Fostoria or if its going on to Willard.
good luck[:)]
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

This loco was on a train???

[JoeKoh]

macguy
I just saw it go by it might be on its way to akron where they rebuild engines.
I hope so. stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

If it's heading towards Akron for a rebuild it would make my day. Who would be doing the rebuilding in Akron. I now of a place in Kent that rebuilds engines but I know the cuyahoga valley scenic railroad has an engine shop too. If anyone knows anything more I would love to get photos of this historic engine. Either way I'll go out this week on my day off and search the yards and the rebuilders for it.
Andrew

[dknelson]

By interesting coincidence I was just looking at my slides of railfanning Eola and Hinsdale in the late 1980s on days when I caught lots of BN E units on the Metra trains. I also got a tape recording somewhere of one of them - they sounded great.
Dave Nelson

[eolafan]

Macguy, where and when was the picture of 9923 above taken? How sad, I remember very well the sights and sounds of these wonderful and proud units charging down the triple track where I live with commuters many times every day. We all miss them!

[mloik]

"E"

[bluepuma]

Could there be a relationship to the Disneyland "E" ticket being the top ride in the old days when you bought a ticket book, got rationed out limited rides, with the least being the horse pulled main street trolley or regular trolley?

The E8A/B ATSF was a great sight heading off to Chicago past my apartment in Arcadia, California in 1970, with the shiney Budd cars, I have a N scale version of that train, my favorite, but I love my PA/PB units and SP trains as well. Now I live in Illinois, 120 miles from the other end of that run.

- Puma

[Anonymous]

Earlier this year, I placed two MARC E-9's, the MARC 91 and 92 [both ex BN E-9's] into the shop at Baltimore. The shop man said they were looking into rebuilding them for control cars in MARC's push-pull service. After about a week, they were pulled out of the shop and put back on a back track where they'd been moldering for the last seven or eight years. I assumed they were too far gone, as nothing more was done until a few weeks ago. Now they're on a different back track on the other side of the shop; maybe it's because the track they were on was needed for something else, I don't know.

The bottom line is that back here in the east, E-9's have been moved around, too. The plot THICKENS!

[eolafan]

Heard today that quite a few of the old BN/Metra E-9 units had been at the old Chrome Crankshaft facility in Rock Island (I believe this had been the old Rock Island RR shops). Anybody know if any more are there?

[mvlandsw]

9923 was in the Willard engine terminal on 1/1/05. It may be going to LTEX in Yougstown. 9922 is already there.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan

Macguy, where and when was the picture of 9923 above taken? How sad, I remember very well the sights and sounds of these wonderful and proud units charging down the triple track where I live with commuters many times every day. We all miss them!

I got the picture off of http://www.railpictures.net

Here's the link to the picture:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=74087

Apparently it was taken July 15, 2003 at the CN yard (ex-IC) in Markham, Illinois, USA.

Here's another old picture of it in commuter service.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=46009


I sure hope it's headed for a rebuild!

[JoeKoh]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mvlandsw

9923 was in the Willard engine terminal on 1/1/05. It may be going to LTEX in Yougstown. 9922 is already there.

Glad I could give you guys a heads up. was in fostoria 12-31-04.but wasnt sure which way it went.thanks for the update[:)]
stay safe
Joe