Many thanks to Mike Del Vecchio, who contacted me to set the record straight regarding Lackawanna 2628. This 1930 MU motor car was moved from its home of some 35 years near Rochester, New York, back to home territory in New Jersey back in April as described in this post. At the time, I posted that the car was owned by the Tri-State Railway Historical Society and stored at the Whippany Railway Museum.
However Mike points out that, in fact, neither of those things are true! The car is actually owned by a real estate developer in Montclair, NJ, called BDP Holdings LLC. This firm evidently owns (or is invested in) the former Lackawanna terminal building in Montclair, which is where 2628 will be put on display as part of a major redevelopment. TSRHS helped set up this whole plan, but does not own the car. Additionally, while 2628 was unloaded at Whippany, it's actually being stored on the Morristown & Erie Railway, whose tracks run past the Whippany museum. The car's PNAERC record has been updated to reflect these corrections. Thanks, Mike!
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