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I remember that the color of the ACL units was described as, "pokeberry 
purple."

Gordon Hamilton

On 1/29/2019 5:21 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:
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> In 1958, then N&W President Stuart Saunders began dieselizing the N&W. 
> He leased E6’s and E7’s from the Atlantic Coast Line and Richmond, 
> Fredericksburg, and Potomac to replace the J’s on all passenger trains 
> across the system.
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> There was a Sheb Wooley  song written in 1958 and in June of that 
> year, it became
> #1 in  popularity. Because the ACL E units were frequently involved in 
> grade crossing
> fatalities, they were frequently ID'ed by the song's name - "*/ Purple 
> People - eaters"/*
>               Harry Bundy
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