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CHRIS D’AMATO: LEONARDO, NJ; MAY 31, 1981
After pulling a rare excursion train across the railroad, one of the Navy’s VO 1000’s idles on the long pier in Sandy Hook Bay (above). The Navy uses the railroad to bring supplies and ammunition out to its ships, which dock at the pier. Lettered for the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps., a 60cm gauge Davenport 2-6-2T is seen working at Ft. Benning Georgia (below). The army had a fleet of these locos, which were built for use in WWI. A Fascinating 1940’s film of them in action can be seen on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BTtncKnS9k.
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oe Kriess’ look back at the railroad that served McClellen Air Force Base reminded me of a 1981 fan
trip over the railroad at the Earle Naval Weapons Station in New Jersey. At the time, the railroad was still using its orig- inal Baldwin VO 1000’s to haul trains of
ordinance from the storage magazines in Colts Neck, 15 miles to Leonardo, where Navy ships dock at a three mile long pier to take on ammunition and supplies. A layout based in part on Mc- Clellen Air Force Base or the Earle Naval Weapons Station could prove in- teresting, but Joe’s article also got me to thinking what overlooked modeling sub- jects government facilities, rail equip- ment and traffic often are. Although I never saw them, troop trains come to mind as a logical model- ing subject. Thinking back to my own encounters, I recall seeing secondhand passenger cars being used to house sol- diers at Ft. Monmouth and hospital cars stored on sidings there. I pho- tographed a U.S. Navy MRS-1 in tran- sit at Roseville, California, and, occa- sionally, have encountered flat cars loaded with military equipment. Of course, government rail equip- ment and service doesn’t have to be military in nature. I also recall an E8 painted for the U.S. DOT that worked for a while on the NY&LB, a British Leyland demonstrator railbus lettered for the DOT and, while riding a freight
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