Friday, December 17, 2021

Lackawanna MU cars move to new owner

Thanks to River Rail Photo, from where the above picture by Marc Glucksman comes, for posting the news that the two Lackawanna MU cars formerly stored on a siding in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, have been purchased by SMS Rail Lines and removed to the SMS yard in Bridgeport, NJ. The cars are both motor cars built in 1930, 3557 and 4624, and they've been sitting on that siding near the Croton-Harmon Yard since September 1986. Until recently, at least, they were rare examples of Lackawanna MU cars that had retained their pantographs (and perhaps the rest of their electric equipment?) but other than that they're bog-standard MU motor cars from that railroad. It seemed they were being somewhat maintained, insofar as there aren't any broken windows or obvious roof failures evident, but their real condition is unknown. Also uncertain is the plan for them; SMS runs some historic diesels in short line and switching service, and has a steam engine they're working on restoring, but I don't think they've run passenger trains before. That said, I'm not very familiar with SMS and this is the company's first appearance on the PNAERC roster.

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