An Addition to the Northumberland Bunch

Using information from a couple of sources, I was able to bring the record for Erie-Lackawanna 3590 up to date - and only about 13 years late! The owner of the Everett Railroad, which was listed in PNAERC as the car's owner, posted online that he had actually sold the car sometime back. The buyer was the North Shore Railroad (not be confused with the North Shore Railroad, which is already featured in PNAERC, never mind the North Shore Line) in Northumberland, PA. Some searching around online led me to this photo by Kevin Painter (thumbnail shown above). It shows "North Shore Railroad 62540," a Lackawanna MU car said to have been purchased in 2010 from the Everett Railroad. That can only make it ex-Lackawanna 3590. Voila - mystery solved. Better late than never.

Car 3590 appears to be in tourist service, and in Northumberland it joins an odd concentration of other ex-Lackawanna MU motor cars. There's car 3549, which has been plinthed slightly below grade at a restaurant along the tracks and painted up as Pennsylvania Railroad 1910 for whatever reason. It's under a roof and looks to be in decent shape body-wise, though I believe it's effectively been "tunneled." Then there are cars 3523 and 4604, both privately owned and stored in deteriorated condition (the photos here and here make them look rough and that was nearly 15 years ago - I believe 3523 is the one that has kept its pans).