ALCO-GE Builders Plate #79477

[Schaffner]

Builders Plate seen on the wall over a bar. I wrote down the following info:

"ALCO-GE 79477 Oct 1951"

Anybody out there know what unit was assigned that builder number?

[scottychaos]

New York Central, Alco FB-2 No. 3360
(a B-unit)
assuming the road numbers were in the same consecutive order as the builder numbers, which is likely:
http://www.thedieselshop.us/AlcoFA1.HTML#FA2

couldnt find a photo of 3360 herself, but here is a sister unit from the same order:
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/nyc3356gea.jpg

There is only one surviving NYC Alco FA, and no B-units.

Scot

[Allen Hazen]

Re: "There is only one surviving NYC Alco FA, and no B-units"
--
But the Danbury Railroad Museum (Danbury, Connecticut: maybe 60 miles from New York City, adjacent to the Metro North Station: making it one of the rail-accessible railroad museums!) has an A-B set in full Lightening Stripes! (Though if you're a nit-picker, the aftercooler radiators on the sides just below the radiator grills are a giveaway that they are really an ex-CN FPA-4/FPB-4 set repainted in New York Central colors....)