by TCurtin
This is a request for those with l-o-n-g memories to think back 60 and a few more years. It is well known that the last steam passenger run on the Harlem occurred 9/11/52, and there are a number of photos of the event. What I'm wondering is: did this passenger dieselization happen in a short period --- like, over weeks or a month --- or was there a period of months in which steam and the new RS-3s shared the service. I have not seen any photos to suggest the latter; however, i do remember, and made notes in the 60s that, the 8200 series RS-3s that operated there had builder's plates of July 1951, more than a year before Harlem steam folded its tents. Therefore, either those RS-3s were delivered new to some other service than the Harlem; or some of them were running on the Harlem for a while before steam ended. Any recollections of this? I remember Harlem steam but only as a little toddler, so needless to say I wasn't recording engines and consists then !!