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Veteran engineer "Butch" Lawrence, the runner of the road's last steam powered passenger train, had his own favorite from among the Lackawanna's twenty one 79-inch Pacifics. This engine was the 1116, delivered in 1922, and Lawrence once described to the author how he was called on to rescue the heavy Binghamton milk train #44 and her dead 3-unit, 801- class diesel using the 1116. He bragged at how this elderly steamer topped the two-mile, 51-foot eastward elevation to Convent Station at 45 mph in spite of her unusual load! The photo shows the 1116 in September of 1952 at Netcong Station on the Washington "Old Road". The train, #1030, sports a maroon, gold and gray, turtle backed baggage car on the head end. (Bill Ellis)

Photograph from Lackawanna Railroad In Color Volume 3: The Transition Years.

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