NS 1000 Scale test unit

[atsf sp]

NS 1000 is an ex-EL SD45. Was this unit the EL 3632 the Bicenntenial unit?
Today:http://jwdp.rrpicturearchives.net/showP ... id=1718500
EL: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 540&nseq=0

[Espee9180]

Indeed it was.

The unique NS test bed NS 1000, the former Erie Lackawana 3632...

[scottychaos]

I have EL 3632 listed as "NS Q#1", an NS testbed unit:

http://gold.mylargescale.com/Scottychao ... Survivors/

if "Q#1" was repainted and renumbured to NS 1000, then it could be the same unit..
doesnt make sense that NS would bother to paint such a unit though..
but some googling confims its true!

http://www.altoonaworks.info/pics/page2.html

So yes, that is in fact EL 3632, one of the EL bicentennial units..

Scot

[Bryanjones]

should be noted that this is also not a scale test unit, it is a test unit for rebuilt prime movers. It lacks traction motors thus it is unable to move on its own.

Bryan Jones
Brooks,KY

[lvrr325]

Conrail sold this unit to an outfit in Massachusetts when it was retired and the prime mover was removed to power a car crusher if I remember correctly. There's a photo of it there in ratty CR paint in an old Railpace.