When Scott Mann of Sunset Brass / 3rd Rail announced that he was adding the New York Central (actually 2 Metro-North owned)
FL9s to the release of the FL9s later this year I decided that since I was there at the Peekskill Train Station that day 1999 for the
150th anniversary of the Hudson Line I would like to own a pair of them. They are # 2012 & 2013. When I asked my dealer to order them for me he inquired for me with Scott Mann and he told my train dealer that only 10 in 3 rail and 10 in 2 rail were going to be made. He ordered two for me and all of the other 8 in 3 rail as well. That day in 1999 one of my friends who is an engineer for Metro-North was selected to operate the train with the two New York Central painted FL9s north from Peekskill. One of these engines is at the Danbury Railroad Museum in Conneticut.
Ed G. (Along The New Haven Line of Metro-North and Amtrak. The business railroad line in the USA.)
