| A F3A, painted in the old DL&W freight scheme is one of the many fixtures of the old Lackawanna Scranton freight yards. Owned by the Tri-State Chapter of the NRHS, this unit is a replica of the Lackawanna locomotives that used to call this yard home. Constructed in 1948 by EMD, it was sold to the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad of northern Maine as number 504A, later renumbered to 44. Sold down to Tri-State in New Jersey during the 1980s, it was first restored to a CNJ/CRP orange and blue look and operated around southern New Jersey and Jim Thorpe, PA for many years before coming north and gaining the Lackawanna look. As this is one of the earlier F-units, number 663 still retains the "chicken wire" look on its sides. |