Interesting Engine on OGR

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Interesting Engine on OGR

Postby E7 » Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:30 am

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Re: Interesting Engine on OGR

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:05 am

Old story that keeps getting rediscovered and then
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Re: Interesting Engine on OGR

Postby De Bruin » Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:56 am

I think these are interesting; I recall seeing a photo of one in service in Manhattan in an old Freeman Hubbard era Railroad Magazine, there was a flagman on horseback preceding it as it made its way on street trackage delivering reefers on what I think was the upper west side, accordingly the caption indicated the short branch was referred to as the "Cowboy Line."

OGR also had this, which I found very interesting too.
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Re: Interesting Engine on OGR

Postby 2railjon » Thu Mar 29, 2018 11:43 am

LOL, Rufus! Once again OGR is on the cutting edge of yesterday! :lol:
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Re: Interesting Engine on OGR

Postby E7 » Thu Mar 29, 2018 11:22 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Old story that keeps getting rediscovered and then


It's only old if you have seen it before. :wink:
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Re: Interesting Engine on OGR

Postby E7 » Thu Mar 29, 2018 11:40 pm

De Bruin wrote:I think these are interesting; I recall seeing a photo of one in service in Manhattan in an old Freeman Hubbard era Railroad Magazine, there was a flagman on horseback preceding it as it made its way on street trackage delivering reefers on what I think was the upper west side, accordingly the caption indicated the short branch was referred to as the "Cowboy Line."


They were called "West Side Cowboys":

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