Fwd: ex-Wabash FA-2's on the N&W?

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 From: RIWACME741
To: KEN 49146
CC: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
Sent:  2/6/2008 7:03:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: Re: ex-Wabash  FA-2's on the N&W?


Hi:
 
I'm Bob Warrick..... Author of The Ann Arbor Railroad in Color,  History & 
Operations 1869-1976.
 
Ken Borg......... Sent me your note below!.
 
I am sure you saw Ann Arbor FA-2's on the N&W .... Four  went to the Wabash 
....  52-A and 55-A went in 11/63 and 50-A and 55  went in 1/64.....They were 
traded for a like number of EMD units then went to  LaGrange as trade ins on 
the Ann Arbor's new GP-35's....    The  FA-2's were assigned numbers 820-823 
respectively. 55-A  is one that  did get Wabash paint job and a new number.  (I 
am not sure of the other  locomotives) They were later leased to the New 
Jersey, Indiana &  Illinois.........in 6/65, all four were traded to GE for new  
locomotives.  
 
The Wabash/N&W lease/merger took a long time............. The Board  of 
Directors of the Wabash, as part of the process, agreed to sell the Ann  Arbor in 
February 1961.............  The Merger/Lease of the  Wabash/Nickel Plate/N&W 
was not final October 16, 1964..........  So  yes, then those units would of 
been under the N&W until the went to GE in  1965.  
 
I have a photo in the book, dated January 1964 where Wabash 821 (former  AA 
55-A) is leading a GP-9 and a U-25B on a Wabash train in  Illinois...........  
 
I'd like to see your shots, especially if the unit is still in Ann Arbor  
paint.   I am planning / researching an article about those four  
locomotives......... After life on the Annie.
 
Bob Warrick
428 East Tuscarawas Ave,
Barberton, Ohio  44203
330-697-3518
 
PS: The AA book will be released by Morning Sun Books on June 1,  2008.








In a message dated 2/6/2008 4:09:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, KEN 49146  
writes:

Hello again. Seems I've seen a few photos somewhere of Wabash  Alco FA-2's 
(ex-Ann Arbor) dated in 1965 in service. Wouldn't that date  put these units in 
N&W ownwership? Many thanks for any info! Dave  G.


Bob  Warrick
428 East Tuscarawas Ave,
Barberton, Ohio  44203
330-697-3518

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