Can you identify the location that this EF-3 is sitting at
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Must be New Haven or west because of the catenary.
Nope I will give you a hint though The Ef-3's very rarely went there It was usually the rectifiers that made their appearance there
Ben, is it Boston?
We did not have catenary in Boston in those days.
I would guess it is Bay Ridge or Oak Point.
Joe
Well my guess is that the Rectifier hint would apply to time as well as location. The rectifiers came late to the game after the EF3 era and survived to the Conrail era. So my guess is that this could be Pennsy territory. But I have no idea.
Joe Barker has it right That is the Bay Ridge Yard of the Long Island RR. The car floats are in the background The New Haven ran over the Hellgate Bridge & the NY Connecting through Fresh Pond and down the BayRidge branch of the LIRR to get to the NY Harbor car floats The Long Island switched this yard with BB-3 rats and later Alco S-2's The catenary came down in 1968 and the floats were abondoned the next year when the New HAven became part of Penn Central
Great pic, Ben....thanks!
Peter
