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Court decree affects two local locomotives

Written July 7th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Well, I was wrong last month in thinking that we may have seen the last of Locomotive 1501, the 71-year-old switch engine working in the Albany railroad yard. It’s still on the job, as I discovered on Thursday. But for how long?


 
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