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philip.marshall

April 03, 2015 05:18PM

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Skip Wrote:
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> Wondering about power for that steeplecab .... no
> overhead that I could see, so was it battery or
> did they have an engine powering it?

Hi Skip,

It's supposed to have been a diesel electric, built by GE in 1916 (C/N 3765) as a demonstrator. The engine must have been pretty small to fit in that cab!

-Philip Marshall

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NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	philip.marshall	April 03, 2015 01:51AM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	jim pallow	April 03, 2015 06:36AM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	Jon Bentz	April 03, 2015 08:26AM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	Ed "Oilcan" Kelley	April 03, 2015 11:25AM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	philip.marshall	April 03, 2015 01:04PM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	John West	April 03, 2015 11:29AM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	dougvv	April 03, 2015 11:56AM
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Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	philip.marshall	April 03, 2015 12:38PM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	Bob Foley	April 03, 2015 12:45PM
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Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	Skip	April 03, 2015 05:09PM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	philip.marshall	April 03, 2015 05:18PM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	Bruce R. Pier	April 03, 2015 06:42PM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	Skip	April 04, 2015 11:24PM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	jim pallow	April 03, 2015 06:54PM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	philip.marshall	April 03, 2015 07:12PM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	jim pallow	April 03, 2015 07:14PM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	o anderson	April 03, 2015 07:16PM
Re: NNG: Jay Street Connecting RR (Brooklyn, NY)	philip.marshall	April 03, 2015 07:36PM
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