Very nice. The E60s looked a lot better without the windshield grilles, which were temporarily installed (so I've heard) to guard the original weaker windshield glass. The E60s were most impressive, at least to me, on the point of the late-70s Heritage-equipped Florida trains on the NEC. What a racket those 15-16 car Florida trains made, rumbling past places like Aberdeen, Maryland at 80-per.
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I read that the grates on the windows (absent here and known as "ghetto gates") were installed after some hoodlums dropped rocks from bridges in and around New York. Better glass must have been the reason for their removal. Loved these - they always reminded me of the "equipment" featured in the British "Thunderbirds" with their modern streamlined looks paired with those massive trucks.
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