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Three-builder consist

By Brian Schmidt | November 17, 2021

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

Three-builder consist

A “we ain’t mad at nobody” diesel consist of F3A/F3B/H24-66/RS3 (that’s two EMDs, an FM Train Master, and an Alco) rolls eastbound freight through Fanwood-Scotch Plains, N.J., in the ’60s. Jim McClellan photo

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