Re: PC: ex NYC GP35s - nose doohickey

["Peter King" <info@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's it. I thought it had to do with ATS, but couldn't remember for sure. 
Thanks!

Peter King

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Jordak" <jer -AT- smellycat.com>
To: <penn-central -AT- smellycat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: PC: ex NYC GP35s - nose doohickey


> Peter King wrote:
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>> A friend sent me a picture of a PC (ex NYC) GP35. It has a cylindrical 
>> shape on the right side of the nose, on a bracket. There's a conduit 
>> coming out of the bottom.  I've seen this on the NYC GP40s as well. 
>> Anyone know what it is?
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> Kind of like this one?
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> http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/nyc3015ads.jpg
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> If so, that was part of NYC's Automatic Train Stop (ATS) equipment. ATS 
> would automatically stop a train if it went past a stop signal. I think 
> the system was removed shortly after the bankruptcy in 1970. Some of our 
> former PC engineers on this list can probably elaborate on this.
>
> Some ex-NYC Geeps also had this equipment, such as this one:
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> http://pc.smellycat.com/pics/equip/pc5916js.jpg
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> -JWJ
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