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[Fred Schneider]

Would it be appropriate to ask, "What car?"

I see a former Lackawanna MU car …. one of probably hundreds that once ran on the Morris and Essex Division out of Hoboken, NJ.  Looks like a motor car and not a trailer.

And about the time I had deduced from Bing Maps that it was under the Liberty Bridge and east of the PRR/PAT bridge along the P&LE, then Derrick posted his list of "we must save every last EL electric car."   Must have been EL 3589.  And that list suggest it has been gone for 13 years.

Ray, I wrote a piece for Trains magazine in 1970 on the Erie - Lackawanna commuter service.   Then it was years before I reappeared in Hoboken.   About 40 years later I turned up there riding and photographing the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail.   Of course all the old cars were gone.  The EL 3000 volt DC electrification was not New Jersey Transit's high voltage AC electrification.  The cars that were built to replace the Boonton and Stillwell cars in the early 1970s had been worn out and were replaced by even newer equipment.   Nothing I remembered was still there.  I felt like Rip Van Winkle waking up after a very long sleep.   



On Apr 4, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Lattner, Raymond wrote:

> Anyone know what happened to this car?
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> Thanks
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> Ray
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