Amtrak
Sunnyside Yard
Sunnyside, Queens, NY
18 November 2012

Amtrak #A 13044 [Tunnel Blower Car]
Amtrak #A 89118 [Blower]

Never saw one of these before!

It appears to be a large blower fan mounted on a removable frame (note the lifting eyes on the steel beams making up the blower deck. This in turn is set on a short railway car. I assume it would be used to evacuate smoke out of tunnels following a fire.

Strangely, the blower housing carries a different number than the car.

But even more unusual is the fact it is built on a European 4 wheel flatcar chassis:

Note the car with European style buffers, hook coupler.

Photographed by Philip M. Goldstein, November 18, 2012.
Added to the photo archive by Philip M. Goldstein, November 19, 2012.
Railroad: Amtrak.

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