Amazing that such equipment was still in use as late as 1984. I guess we could call the 70's and 80's, the "Museum Years". Nice shot, Paul!
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| Posted by xBNSFer on February 2, 2016 | |
I think the running joke among passengers that used to ride them was that they could see the dents in the sides where the arrowheads hit 'em.
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Mitch, the cars lasted longer than most as nothing else was built to run under the DC catenary system. Arrow III cars were built starting in the late 1970's to replace these cars, but were used on the NEC in the meantime. In August of 1984. one month after I shot this, the catenary was converted from DC power to 25,000v AC system, the cars were replaced by the Arrow III cars, and 150 of the old MU's made it to railroad museums and tourist lines across the country. I did shoot other train consists that day where at least one or more of the cars had been repainted by NJT into an orange scheme with a cream window stripe, but I'd guess that 40% of the consists looked like this until the end.
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