H.F.Malone wrote:The height of an E-33, when they were NYNH&H EF-4s, was 15 feet - 4 7/8 inches to the top of the blower grid hatch, and 15 feet - 6 inches from the top of a locked-down pantograph (both from top of rail).
So, the basic steel body of the things was higher than 15 feet. It is indeed likely that the unit would have grounded out on the WUS tunnel wire.
Info from NYNH&H diagram sheet dated August 16, 1963.
I totally agree with this, the pantographs had to be lowered on PRR equipment at the phase break and at Cos Cob over the air gap.
Penn Central had no intention of retaining the freight operation to Bay Ridge and thus no use for the electric freight motors
existed after the takeover of the NHRR. Freight operations to and from Oak Point remained but traffic was reduced
between Cedar Hill and the Oak Point Terminal, much of the traffic went right up the Hudson to and from Selkirk rather
than to Cedar Hill. I do not have a record of the dates of the last runs with freight motors but it was not long after
January 1, 1969.
Noel Weaver