and he notes -
By the time AMTRAK took over in 1971 the PA's were pretty much
history with a few remaining on the D&H. By then the Santa Fe used F
units and UP used E8s. There wasn't that many trains and even less
when AMTRAK began operation so matched power wasn't a problem.
Raleigh in Maine - waitin' for the Raine...
At 06:50 AM 12/20/2010, Thomas Baker wrote:
>I think I have seen a few photos of UP FM units hooked up with ALCO
>PA units on the "Los Angeles Limited" back in the early Fifties. The
>Missouri Pacific comes to mind as a road that definitely paired EMD
>E units with ALCO PA units, and many photos attest to such lashups.
>It seems the Santa Fe kept its PA units separate from its F units
>and its few E units as did the SP. The MKT PA units, they had 14 of
>them, were kept separate from its E units, too. I am not sure what
>the NYC and the PRR did in that regard.
>
>In the scale world, well, AM PA units operate very well with EMD
>E-8s, don't they?
>
>Tom
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