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KB2VXA > TODAY 15.07.16 10:46l 48 Lines 2261 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: N0KFQ > Raymond Loewy dies
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From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : TODAY@WW
Greetings and felicitations,
This should be of interest to my fellow railfans, an important omission from
K.O.'s bull. "designing the first all-welded locomotive (in 1937)."
This was the Pennsylvania Railroad's GG-1 built in their Altoona,
Pennsylvania shops that when the Boston to Washington main now part of the
Northeast Corridor and Philidelphia to Harrisburg, PA lines were electrified
also in 1937. I used to watch trains on the heavily trafficked NEC at the
station in my home town Rahway, NJ and the GG-1 became and will always be my
favorite electric locomotive. Since information abounds, too much for here,
and 7+ pictures are one royal PITA you can learn about it and pictures abound
on the Internet. If you are reading this you have a computer, so no excuses!
(;->)
Oh, as long as I have it in my collection of ASCII drawings, here's the
steamer near and dear to my heart, an old friend you can say.
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"New Jersey, the most American of all states. It has everything from
wilderness to the Mafia. All the great things and all the worst,
like Route 22."
Jean Shepherd K2ORS (SK) & WOR radio personality
73 de Warren
Station powered by JCP&L atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
Message timed by NIST: 15-Jul-2016 at 09:26 GMT
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