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NYC 20
Title:  NYC 20
Description:  Date and Location unknown. Engine an Alco? Baldwin?
Photo Date:  10/30/1950  Upload Date: 2/9/2011 11:14:17 PM
Location:  UNKNOWN, MI
Author:  Eric Larson
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Locomotives:  NYC 20(RP-210H)
Views:  1330   Comments: 1
NYC 20 "The Xplorer" A Baldwin RP-210 hydraulic unit
Title:  NYC 20 "The Xplorer" A Baldwin RP-210 hydraulic unit
Description:  Date and location are guesses. The Xplorer was a named train of the New York Central Railroad, between Cleveland, Ohio and Cincinnati, Ohio. The Xplorer was an attempt by the NYC to modernize rail travel in Ohio and lure people out of their cars. The train was built by Pullman to their lightweight Train-X design, and was powered by a Baldwin RP-210 Diesel-hydraulic locomotive. The train consisted of nine, short, all-aluminum cars articulated together. The center car had two axles (one at each end), with the remaining cars having a single axle each, being supported by adjacent cars at the end opposite the axle. The ride was rough, as with most of the other lightweight trains of the period, and the train was not a success. The train was retired in 1960, and was sold to Jones Tours, for excursion service. After a long period of storage in South Carolina, the train and locomotive were scrapped around 1970. (Source Wikipedia)
Photo Date:  3/1/1955  Upload Date: 1/20/2012 9:50:20 PM
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Author:  Wendy Crim
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NYC 20(RP-210H)
Views:  4397   Comments: 6
The Xplorer
Title:  The Xplorer
Description:  The Xplorer demo train set visits Atlanta's Terminal Station in July 1964.
Photo Date:  7/1/1964  Upload Date: 11/23/2009 4:17:20 AM
Location:  Atlanta, GA
Author:  George R Stewart
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  NYC 20(RP-210H)
Views:  1030   Comments: 2
Jones Tours RP-210H 20
Title:  Jones Tours RP-210H 20
Description:  Taken in the mid-1960s.
Photo Date:  1/1/1965  Upload Date: 10/26/2023 11:00:47 PM
Location:  Kingsport, TN
Author:  Kenneth S. MacDonald
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Locomotives:  JFJ 20(RP-210H)
Views:  73   Comments: 0
Pickens Railroad Baldwin RP-210H #20 "Xplorer" (ex-NYC)
Title:  Pickens Railroad Baldwin RP-210H #20 "Xplorer" (ex-NYC)
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 126 transparency. On Greenville & Northern. James F. Jones "Jones Tours" purchased the entire train in 1960 to run "land cruise" excursion service over the tracks of other railroads. Scrapped around 1970. I took this photo when I was a student at Furman University in Greenville.
Photo Date:  5/1/1969  Upload Date: 12/9/2006 7:17:48 PM
Location:  Travelers Rest, SC
Author:  Kim Piersol
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Locomotives:  JFJ 20(RP-210H)
Views:  2812   Comments: 2
Pickens Railroad Baldwin RP-210H #20 "Xplorer" (ex-NYC)
Title:  Pickens Railroad Baldwin RP-210H #20 "Xplorer" (ex-NYC)
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 126 transparency. On Greenville & Northern. James F. Jones "Jones Tours" purchased the entire train in 1960 to run "land cruise" excursion service over the tracks of other railroads. Scrapped around 1970. I took this photo when I was a student at Furman University in Greenville.
Photo Date:  5/1/1969  Upload Date: 12/9/2006 7:17:56 PM
Location:  Travelers Rest, SC
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  JFJ 20(RP-210H)
Views:  3037   Comments: 0
Pickens Railroad Baldwin RP-210H #20 "Xplorer" (ex-NYC)
Title:  Pickens Railroad Baldwin RP-210H #20 "Xplorer" (ex-NYC)
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 126 transparency. On Greenville & Northern. James F. Jones "Jones Tours" purchased the entire train in 1960 to run "land cruise" excursion service over the tracks of other railroads. Scrapped around 1970. I took this photo when I was a student at Furman University in Greenville.
Photo Date:  5/1/1969  Upload Date: 12/9/2006 7:17:59 PM
Location:  Travelers Rest, SC
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  JFJ 20(RP-210H)
Views:  1553   Comments: 0
NYC THE XPLORER #20
Title:  NYC THE XPLORER #20
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/8/2014  Upload Date: 10/24/2019 4:50:39 AM
Location:  Unknown, US
Author:  Unknown/Collection of Richard R. "Dick" Wallin
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  NYC 20(RP-210H)
Views:  348   Comments: 0
Pickens Railroad Baldwin RP-210 #3000 "Xplorer" (ex-NH "Dan'l Webster")
Title:  Pickens Railroad Baldwin RP-210 #3000 "Xplorer" (ex-NH "Dan'l Webster")
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 126 transparency. On Greenville & Northern. James F. Jones "Jones Tours" purchased the entire train in 1964 to run "land cruise" excursion service over the tracks of other railroads. Scrapped around 1970. I took this photo when I was a student at Furman University in Greenville.
Photo Date:  5/1/1969  Upload Date: 12/9/2006 7:17:51 PM
Location:  Travelers Rest, SC
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  JFJ 3000(RP-210H)
Views:  3989   Comments: 5


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