We have this ex-Erie real close to us. It's an E though, not an F.
For your catalog of trivial information EMD model 'F' locomotives had 2 axle trucks and Model 'E' had 3 axle trucks.
This is the Erie in it's prime. In the Conrail era a lot of track was removed (parallel routes and all that.) Most of what remains is now under Norfolk Southern ownership.
Now, aren't you so much better for all that information? ;-)
Thanks! I’m always interested in trains.
When we left Alaska (I was 5) we flew to Seattle, and from there, took the train to Salt Lake City. I don’t recall the mode of transport from there to the town 10 miles south where I grew up, but I recall leaving the confines of the motel room to run to the meadow west of the motel to see the trains. Black steam engines.
The engineers always waved to us and blew the whistle. The house we moved into was on the top of the hill, about two miles from the same track, but in the winter, if conditions were just right, I could hear that whistle blow...