Ozone

[brathke at juno.com]

On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 09:56:01 -0400 "Fred W. Schneider III"
<fschnei at supernet.com> writes:

That was a nice picture of locomotive smoke ... it was obviously a 
fantrip. The P&LE cars are all in Green 1960s New 
York Central paint. Was the smoke made for the fans?

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I took the Clairton photo
(http://gelwood.railfan.net/other/gtw/gtw-s4070ar.jpg) in September,
1975.  The train was a Pittsburgh-Brownsville fantrip using ex-GTW 2-8-2
4070.  It was the end of the day, and the train was hurrying back to
Pittsburgh.  This was not a photo run-by.  I was on a hill overlooking
the river, some distance from the tracks.  I think I was the only person
there, and I doubt if the engineer saw me and decided to make some smoke.
 (By the way, all those P&LE green boxcars were out of service, and the
railroad found it convenient to store them on passing sidings during an
economic downturn.)

The 4070 was simply a smoky engine.  See the photo I took of it earlier
in the day as it crossed the Monongahela River southbound from Homestead
(note the diesel switching ingot cars in the U.S. Steel mill). I took
this photo from a hill in Rankin across the river, so the engineer wasn't
making the smoke for my benefit.  See
<http://gelwood.railfan.net/other/gtw/gtw-s4070w.jpg>.

I guess I'd better bring this e-mail back to Pittsburgh trolleys.  See 
<http://gelwood.railfan.net/other/gtw/gtw-s4070t.jpg> for a photo of the
4070 leaving the P&LE station in Pittsburgh.
This time a PAT 1700 (the Burger King car) is about to get a whif of
smoke.

Bob 7/4

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