Lackawanna Electrics Retiring

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11 жыл бұрын

Maplewood, NJ, August, 1984, the retiring of the Lackawanna electrics.

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@georgesealy4706 4 жыл бұрын

I rode those cars everyday from Maplewood to Hoboken during the period from 1978 to 1983. The seats were made of wicker and they flipflopped so that they could face in either direction. Sometimes the windows would open. Sometimes you would open the window and then you couldn't get it closed, LOL. A couple of times I rode it all the way to Gladstone to visit a friend out there. Other times I went out to Morris Plains where another friend lived a block from the station.

@georgesealy4706 3 жыл бұрын

@51HankySpanky Yes it was, at least that was what was written on the cars. I think actually it was operated by another company by then.

@1940limited Жыл бұрын

All of my family rode these electrics from the 50s through to their end of service and under DL&W, EL , Conrail and NJ Transit. Now I still ride some of the trailers on excursion roads. Reading & Northern has 10 of them.

@Arturo-sm1tb 7 ай бұрын

I was probably on a train with you at some point in 1978....took several trips to Hoboken and NYC that year.

@petercruikshank2618 Ай бұрын

When regulars would commute on these in the Summer months there wasn't any AC. Just small fans along the ceiling. Peole would carry a pair of plyers and a screwdriver to first open the window by pressing two latches on the bottom of the window. The screwdriver was used to hold up the window in case it would not stay up. Two of these ended up at the Florida Railroad Museum in Parish FL. I rode on them and thought it was ironic.

@raymondmuench3266 2 жыл бұрын

Maplewood’s station is distinctive. Always loved its small tower.

@georgesealy4706 Жыл бұрын

I used to walk there everyday. I lived a little over a mile away. So I got my exercise. And I worked in NYC, so there was a lot of walking and climbing subway stairs there too. I was really in shape, no fat at all.

@frenchchicken2799 Жыл бұрын

Also a pretty popular spot for rail fans who want to train spot. I take that station to go to college every day

@davidng2336 3 жыл бұрын

One of the cars was just restored and placed back into service at the Whippany Railway Museum, although as a non-powered car.

@1940limited Жыл бұрын

That is club car 3454 that went over the Gladstone Branch right up to the end of service. There were two other club cars in service to the end, one of which ran out of Dover and the other out of Morristown. The Dover car (3453, I think) was freshly painted and spruced up inside and out. I've never been able to find out what happened to the other two. Maybe someone knows?

@Arturo-sm1tb 7 ай бұрын

I will have to visit on my next trip to Morris County, the old stomping grounds.

@Jeff-uj8xi Жыл бұрын

I was there that day in Maplewood on August 11m 1984. That's my 1947 General Motors TD-4008 bus on display. Geez, that's 39 years ago !! I'm almost 80 years old now.

@FabioSilva-mt9wr Ай бұрын

Lackawanna electric trains

@FabioSilva-mt9wr Ай бұрын

Lackawanna commuter train

@michaelcozzini5252 11 ай бұрын

I remember the seats being wicker , hay color

@JamesGoetzke 6 ай бұрын

Went to high school in the 1970's. From Springfield New Jersey. My grandfather was a bus driver on the 70 Public Service. Saw his bus on video. I took the Train from Short Hills to Madison or Convent Station in the Morristown Madison border. I went to HS at Bailey Ellard across the College. Gee. Memories this brings. Don't use the toilet. It's a hole to the tracks. Hold it until you get to school. In 78...79... some trains were Conrail. Oh those wicker seats. I'm 62. Crazy.

@georgemurphy2579 4 жыл бұрын

Very, very informative...thanks so much!

@WhistleStopUSA 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you ! We are putting up more on our revised site, within the month. Check out Penn Station, Newark & Don Smith of the Black River & Western; more of NJ. Almost forgot, The Model RR Club of Union, NJ. Enjoy !

@samshearman5251 8 жыл бұрын

Brings back memories.

@jvohanian 5 жыл бұрын

4:53 - I remember when the Arrows had those seats! Some also had orange and brown. A lot more colorful and interesting than the all-brown ones they got during the mid-90's refurb.

@nicholasmedovich6729 6 ай бұрын

Would be nice to see replicas of the DLW MUs, Boontons, and high and low trailer coaches plus CNJ commuters someday

@rhin0pillz 5 ай бұрын

There’s a lot of those that you’ve listed that are preserved all over the place in mostly tourist railroads

@nicholasmedovich6729 5 ай бұрын

@@rhin0pillz I’m talking about the numbers that were scrapped. DLW 584, 610, 604, 684, CNJ 1135,

@FabioSilva-mt9wr Ай бұрын

Trem elétrico do estados unidos

@Umbreon5 11 ай бұрын

come to brazil

@Arturo-sm1tb 2 жыл бұрын

I vividly remember those wicker seats as a kid. They weren't olive green during the latter years....so much soot...they were not cleaned regularly. No, those MU cars were NOT a smooth ride. It was a miracle the conductors could move around.

@1940limited Жыл бұрын

You needed to have your "train legs." When I went to NYC for business I'd bring along some paper towels to wipe the soot off the window sills. Always enjoyed riding them and hated to see them retired. I still get to ride some of the trailer cars on excursion railroads. They're scattered all over the country now.

@Arturo-sm1tb 7 ай бұрын

Indeed. I remember those conductors like they were on a fishing boat on a rough day off the Jersey Shore. I will have to find a museum to visit them. Great memories, and my father also commuted on them for many years.

@blakemcnamara9105 3 жыл бұрын

The way those railfans must have felt about the Lackawanna EMUs is how I feel about the Arrow IIIs in today's day; ironic, isn't it?

@nevetslegasi5686 2 жыл бұрын

Never should have gotten rid of them. NEVER

@1940limited Жыл бұрын

Agreed but at least many have survived in excursion service once again pulled by steam. So I still get to ride them, sort of.

@blacknationalfreedomfighte6682 5 жыл бұрын

I remember I use to take the Lackawanna Electric Train from Newark to my Grandmother house in Montclair NJ

@JoeyDNetsfan 4 жыл бұрын

Was it the current Bay Street station or the old Lackawanna mall?

@a.b.sproductionsllc 3 жыл бұрын

That would mean you caught it at the Newark Broad St Station.

@1940limited Жыл бұрын

I rode mainly from Hoboken to Dover and occasionally the Gladstone Branch from the 50s to the end of service in 1984 under DL&W, EL, Conrail and NJ Transit.

@blacknationalfreedomfighte6682 Жыл бұрын

@@JoeyDNetsfan I believe so it's been so Long

@Umbreon5 11 ай бұрын

@a.b.s_productions Жыл бұрын

The Arrow 3’s are still on the rail, but on the Morris Essex Line only uses it to go to Hoboken. They don’t go into the city. The double decker modern ones go into the city.

@Harveycartoonlvr11 Жыл бұрын

They look so much like the old Illinois Central Railroad's MU Cars that once served Chicago...in fact, my Mom used to tear many pairs of stockings riding that Train from the South Suburbs! I have read it is quite possible that many IDEAS from the Chicago Commuter Operations were shared between the two Railroads!

@SleepyRaccoon 3 жыл бұрын

0:45 (the bus in the back) Oh so that's what the buses in Mafia 2 are based off

@riverhuntingdon6659 8 жыл бұрын

Lovely old things those were. Was lucky enough to ride on one many moons ago. All the right electric train noises were emitted ! What's sad though is that none were preserved in running order, for 3000V DC operation LOL. I worked on ancient electric trains here in England until the "elf'n'safety" police swept them all away to the breakers.

@mattsmocs3281 7 жыл бұрын

River Huntingdon the first pantograph car 2505 with work can be restored to run. Her problem is there is nowhere to run that voltage, the closest would be 2000 volt DC on the Electric City Trolley Museums line ironically the next track over from it. Then the car would be idle but could not run like it used to.

@RailPreserver2K 3 жыл бұрын

@@mattsmocs3281 is there video of it

@1940limited Жыл бұрын

I always enjoyed the whine of the traction motors and the compressors running which were very audible at station stops. Mostly the trailer cars have been preserved on excursion roads. I still ride them on the Reading & Northern.

@jamesohara6513 Жыл бұрын

That's Lack awanna, not Luck awanna.

@hamstertrain18 10 жыл бұрын

Your welcome man. =)

@thomasrengel5577 2 жыл бұрын

COULD YOU NOT HAVE DONE THAT D--N MUSIC SOUNDTRACK!! I want to hear what the MU's sounded like again as I worshipped them for ten years coming down to visit from Boston for weekends, etc.. BTW Edison did NOT run the first train; he tried a few hundred feet of operation in the Hoboken yards and found it was too overwhelming so while he may have been in the cab the 83-year-old Edison did NOT run the first train. Learned that detail from Edison's last personal secretary who rode the parlor car as I too did on that August 11 trip. I will look at your cutoff video now but I hope you don't do Sousa-march accompaniment for it! BTW you should've mentioned the total incompatibility of the two power systems: we figured the Lackawanna Electrics would melt under AC while DC would cause the Arrow cars to explode!

@1940limited Жыл бұрын

I rode those electrics from the 50s into the 80s under four different ownerships and love the sound of the traction motors and compressors. I still get to ride the trailer cars on excursions. towards the end I'd ride them every chance I got, sometimes short trips on a lunch hour just for fun.

@hamstertrain18 11 жыл бұрын

Hey that's my town maplewood,NJ didn't know they had this event in maplewood as the lackawanna electrics were being retired in 1984 wish I was around to see this but I was born in 1992 eight years after the lackawanna electrics were retired. Nice vid though man and keep them coming okay? =)

@a.b.s_productions 7 жыл бұрын

NJ Railroad Video Productions I live right next to Maplewood, and take the train line to NYC from there. I too wish I was born when this line was still in use, I was born in 1989, but my mom used to use ride on the old cars back in the 70's and 80's.

@McCracken_9 3 жыл бұрын

What is Lockawanna?

@1940limited Жыл бұрын

Lackawanna is the railroad that originally owned these. They transitioned into Erie-Lackawanna, Contrail and NJ Transit before retirement in 1984 after 54 years of service.

@Bobbr3 4 ай бұрын

I believe you're asking about the word "Lackawanna." The word was first the name given to a river by native American tribes. The river named "Lackawanna" is in the northeastern part of the US state of Pennsylvania where that tribe lived. As time went on, many places and things took on the name "Lackawanna," including towns, schools, streets, and geographic areas and features...including the famous railroad. Lackawanna County is a prominent place in Pennsylvania. The amazing Lackawanna railroad station is a grand building that still stands in Scranton, Pennsylvania, which is the county seat of Lackawanna County.