@harmonyards posted:
I'm thinking did the NYC actually convert a gas electric to a dynamometer car ? In the the 50's, they converted two Brill gas-electrics to a rail detector car (8015) and the clearance car (8016). They were re-equipped with Caterpillar diesel engines. I learned about those conversions when I spent the summer of 1960 on the 8016 measuring clearances. I think that I would have heard about it if they had also converted one to a dynamometer car.