MP54 Multiple-Unit Electric Cars -- Pennsylvania RR & Penn Central RR
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ย. 2017
- MP54 Multiple-Unit Electric Cars were the backbone of the Pennsylvania and Penn Central commuter fleet in the New Jersey and Philadelphia areas until the early 1980s. This presentation features a slideshow of these cars both at New Jersey and Philadelphia city and suburban locations. Pictures were taken in the 1960s and 1970s.
Here's one you've not likely heard before. My Dad worked for the PRR, he was a car inspector on graveyard. We had a family pass and on a trip back home from the Franklin Institute 10 year old me drove the Media local from 49th St to Gladstone. Apparently I was something of a natural because I had the throttle while Train Driver Jack as I called him caught a smoke on the other side of the cab. That's not the best part though. When Dad got up around 6 that evening of course I'd waited all day to tell him. In standard Dad fashion his response was somewhere between "yeah right and get a job kid". Until he looked up to see my sister behind me saying "he really drove the train". I learned some new words that day, like liability among others, but I don't think my Dad got mad at me which was the usual sop, for many kids in 1970. It sure was a thrill, would loved to have become a train driver, but Dad was convinced SEPTA would be the ruination of the railroad back in 80. Good call Dad.
This brings back soooooooooooo many Great memories growing up in Media, Pa in the 60's/70's and seeing the MP54's
Grew up watching these fly by along Glenwood Avenue in North Philly in the 1970s.
I remember riding these from Metuchen, NJ to Newark, NJ and back on shopping sprees back in the early 60’s. They were rocking and rolling and some of the windows actually worked😀
These are terrific...thanks!
Your slideshows are superb. Great, colorful photos.
Another amazing electric train. It is another beautiful train.
I remember train watching along the NEC between Arbutus and Halethorpe, MD back in the 1960s and '70s. An afternoon MP54 commuter train would come up track 4 on the return trip from Washington to Baltimore. It would stop at Halethorpe to let some passengers off. I believe there were also stops made at Frederick and Edmondson Aves. within Baltimore City on the west side. Enjoyed hearing the hum of their electric motors when they would start off.
Great photos!
I rode these many times on the Paoli line, boarding at Overbrook Stn.
cool
Nice video. Good pictures of the old locomotives. However some jazz could've been nice in the video.
Thanks for the slides again! Are you familiar with the PRR's Trenton Cutoff? As a kid growing up in Feasterville right off Buck Road, I could hear the horns for the Bustleton Pike grade crossing. We moved there in 1952, when I was five. I even saw electric box-cabs
The MP54's in a variety of layouts were also the backbone of the Long Island Railroad. See if you can gather a slideshow of those cars, too.
Hey, Tassiebaz…..why did the MP54s and their Reading RR cousins (including the Blue Liners) growl and rattle when starting out from a standstill? The other thing they did was produce a cloud of blue, oily smoke behind them.
I just noticed. The PRR cars look as though they had manually opening side doors; the Conductors had to open them by hand. If I remember correctly the LIRR cars had sliding side doors that the conductor opened with a key inserted into an opening mechanism. Am I correct?
They had a set sitting in croton Harmon NY but recently removed them. I wonder what happened to them
Wish there was footage of these moving
it's is 1947 GE MP54 LUXURY TRAINS
These cars had no deadman pedal. They musta sucked to drive a whole 8 to 10 hour shift. The plain wooden bench I'm sure did the backside no favors.