Marty:
I did the same thing, only with different locomotives some years later. I grew up near Muddy Run and heard / watched Conrail on the Port Road, which would have been shortly after the overhead came down. I just missed the electrified freight days, but did catch some A&S action in Quarryville when we went to town. My dad worked 2nd shift at High Steel, and we would bring him dinner once or twice a week, where I took in the F40PHs and the occasional AEM7 on the old Pennsy main. I think that is where I acquired the 'electrified bug'. For 'career day' in 8th grade, I got a cab ride in an AEM7, (Newark, NJ and the Pit at Penn Station) and an E60, and they remain my favorite motors. When I could drive, I would take trips to 30th St and Perryville and watch them roll in and out for hours. Today I hang out with them at Strasburg every so often. The ACS64 is neat (I'd probably get a model if MTH did one) but I miss the older electrics. So, I relive it in the layouts I build and the occasional perusal through the old printed photographs.
