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Owner: Metro North Commuter Railway
Model:EMD FL9Built As:NH 2045 (FL9)
Serial Number:21991Order No:3198
Frame Number:3198-A16Built:10/1960
Notes:ex New Haven
Other locos with this serial:  MNCR 2017(FL9) ME 2017(FL9) CR 5045(FL9) SIXX 2017(FL9) PC 5045(FL9) NH 2045(FL9) MNCR 5045(FL9)
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Ready to roll south
Title:  Ready to roll south
Description:  The Budd and Branch trip ran with a pair of FL 9s and two coaches in pull-pull configuration. The train is ready to go south on the Danbury Branch behind FL 9 504
Photo Date:  1/21/1984  Upload Date: 12/1/2013 2:11:38 AM
Location:  Danbury, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  MNCR 5045(FL9)
Views:  524   Comments: 1
Classic pose, unusual place
Title:  Classic pose, unusual place
Description:  One of the FL 9s on the Budd and Branch trip sits at New Canaan, where diesels rarely went in revenue service.
Photo Date:  1/21/1984  Upload Date: 12/1/2013 2:19:28 AM
Location:  New Canaan, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MNCR 5045(FL9)
Views:  433   Comments: 0
On the Danbury Branch
Title:  On the Danbury Branch
Description:  MN 5045 sits at a photo stop on the MN Budd and Branch trip. Steam heat was still the standard, note the leaking steam pipe under the FL 9. Also of note is a New Haven hallmark, the Hancock air whistle, mounted atop the cab between the windshields.
Photo Date:  1/21/1984  Upload Date: 12/1/2013 2:17:41 AM
Location:  Branchville, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 5045(FL9)
Views:  558   Comments: 0
Not exactly an RDC
Title:  Not exactly an RDC
Description:  The idea behind the title of MNs "Budd and Branch" trip was that it would run with a pair of RDCs on the ex New Haven branches served by MN. As I recall(30!years later) there was a mechanical issue with the Budd cars, and a pull-pull train powered by FL 9s was run. The cars were an ex Amtrak coach and this SEPTA ex Reading car.
Photo Date:  1/21/1984  Upload Date: 12/1/2013 2:14:54 AM
Location:  Branchville, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  MNCR 5045(FL9)
Views:  588   Comments: 1


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