Hop into Peabody's WayBack Machine to look at the consist of a 1970's era EL freight heading east on the Southern Tier - back when consists were more interesting due to larger number of RRs in existence. The train includes traffic acquired from Chicago interchange with western RRs as well as cars picked up at EL's Marion OH classification yard. An SDP45 (owned by N&W (and leased by Dereco of which EL was a part) - hence configured with the dual control stand to facilitate running long hood forward) and SD45 tip toe across Hayes Ave crossing at Endicott NY, site of a recent EL pile-up. The SDP45, # 3637, had an ignominious fate as some 5 years later it was involved in a derailment in the Delaware Water as one of three locomotives hauling the EL-Jersey Central Scranton to Elizabethport, NJ pool freight SE-98. #3637 was subsequently shipped to N&W who converted into a slug.

Photographed by John Barlow, January, 1970.
Added to the photo archive by John Barlow, October 4, 2021.
Railroad: Erie Lackawanna.

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