Pete,

I enjoyed seeing your picture of RV #15. As a teenager in New Jersey, I remember #15 still in service, and she was kept just about as spick-and-span as she is in your photo. When the Rahway Valley dieselized with two GE 70-tonners, they built a new enginehouse, including a third stall to keep #15 under cover and secure as backup.

Sheetmetal drip pans were placed under the journals of the diesels to keep any oil from getting on the new concrete floor. Quite a change from the original building, which resembled a tobacco barn, with spaces between the board walls and a dirt floor.

I still have the long-spouted oil can from RV #13, which was set out for scrap on one of the Sunday visits my Dad and I used to make.

 

Larry