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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by cefinkjr</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by up829</i> <br /><br />I've seen a few pictures of a T1 poised to race Central E7's out of Englewood but have never read an account of the result. What happened? <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Never heard of E7 vs T1 getting out of Englewood but, when I worked on the Central in the late 60s, many old timers told me stories of such races between various trains. They swore that the Central train would invariably beat the Pennsy train. Some even admitted that this might have been caused by a fairly sharp curve east of Englewood on the PRR while the Central's right of way was tangent track for several more miles. [:D] <br /> <br />Chuck <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />The Great Train Stations supplement to a fairly recent Classic Trains has a picture of a T1 on the Broadway racing an A-B set of E7's on the Century out of Englewood dated June 1946.
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