GOLDEN-ARM wrote:Bingo was always a good spot, to see what was fresh out of the shops, on the Valley. The short run, and relatively light grades, made it an easy way to test run the stuff being outshopped. Not too far from home if something "died", and usually plenty of power to drag it back home. Also a great place to catch engines making a last run, before being traded in, or scrapped.Page 118 of The Lehigh Valley Railroad: Wyoming & Buffalo Divisions illustrates your point quite nicely with a captioned photo of elderly FAs on FO-2 in Binghamton in February '65.
Matt Langworthy
"It is highly likely that the 1990s were an overrated decade."
"It is highly likely that the 1990s were an overrated decade."
