Re:RE: (erielack) A study of two ex-D&H SD45s

[Mike Spinelli <idrsspin_@_yahoo.com>]

On the West End, there were a couple height
restrictions at JO Tower in Akron. The East Market
Street bridge was one.

Overheight loads went Erie to Creston, then down the
W&LE/NKP/N&W south through Brewster, then abck north
to Kent, and back onto the Erie.

Mike Spinelli

- --- Janet & Randy Brown <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>
wrote:

> Yes, I know about the "high-and-wide" reputation,
> which was well deserved, for the most part. 
> However, all it takes is one constriction to alter
> the profiles of locomotives, which have to be able
> to go everywhere.  The SD45s were altered.
> 
> The H&W loads (high and wide), if they were going
> through Jersey City, probably went through the
> arches.  But not all of the H&Ws went to Jersey
> City: many went to domestic customers, some on the
> Erie, some not.
> 
> Randy Brown
>
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> 
> The Erie was known for both its wide *AND* high
> clearances - ever see all those ads on the back of
> the Erie employee magazines showing gigantic
> industrial equipment on depressed-center flats?
> 
> Obviously, as you point out, it had its spots. So
> that begs the question - where did those giant
> pieces of equipment go? Were they routed to a
> different railroad before it got to the NY City
> area?
> 
> 
>     - Paul
> 
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