While the J-engines (the J-1s in particular) were the bellwethers of the NYC's fleet of high-speed passenger engines, the L-engines (especially the L-2s) were the workhorses of its roster of freight power. There were 300 L-2s, all turned out by Alco…
As she pulls up on the fill at Meridian Street and Bluff Road on the Belt, the 2803 erupts with a most photogenic plume of exhaust, as if to notify the world at large that she is in charge of a sizeable cut of revenue freight. At the same time, she…