Dover, NJ, with Lackawanna MU train

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Location? Lancaster,PA?

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This should be easy to figure out for someone who knows the New Haven.

That does look like a typical New Haven cat bridge, and the pans are up on the MP54s so it’s 11kV 25 Hz (and not Dover, NJ on the Lackawanna)

Earliest car I see is an early-60s Chevy, with something from the late '40s parked ahead of it.

The station was large enough to have at least four REA trucks.

The tower is ‘Dover’ but I don’t find that name on a list of New Haven towers.

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I’m not 100% convinced it isn’t Dover NJ. The catenary looks right, and the station building looks like it’s a match too.

-El

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You put the pans on MP54s up on 3000VDC catenary and the result won’t be anywhere near as peaceful looking.

Likewise the ex-Lackawanna was converted to 25 kV 60 Hz, which would cause no less pandemonium with pans up.

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IT is Dover, NJ.

Station is still there.

see:

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Well, there you go. :+1:

Rich

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But that doesn’t explain powered-on MP54s there. I would suspect AI if I did not know the source.

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Not sure why the cars are referred to as PRR MP-54. They are marked Lackawanna. The appear to be Lackawanna powered MU-trailer pairs.

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This is what comes of trying to analyze a photograph with poor vision on an iPhone. I thought I distinctly saw “PENNSYLVANIA” on the lead car, as I had been primed to expect a fan trip using them, and did not even see the lack of porthole end windows or the very large and lacy pantograph…

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You are to be forgiven. I can see how you would make that mistake.

Rich

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They appear to be Lackawanna MU’s to me as well. The slots on the side of the roof above the vestibules are a dead give away as they are the intakes for the motor ventilation.

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Thanks, They are Lackawanna, not PRR, and it’s my fault for mislabeling them,

Is the Brass Penny restaurant5 by the Dover stationb still in business? Oh, wait, that’s at Gladstone

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The Karner Brass Penny is still open as the Gladstone Tavern, and Sir Pennysworth is still on the porch.

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Thanks, The Gladstone branch, with its outward canted wood line poles, was the nearest thing to a Midwest or Pennsylvania or California interurban that the NYCity area had,more than the Staten Island R. T. But I suppose NJTransit replaced them with steel. Like the South Shore finally ending street-running.

I remember the Brass Pennuy as servind excellent food at modest prices. A very worthwhile destination.

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I wonder if the initial confusion might have been with this image, from the New Haven Station 1972 thread.

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THe Pennsy Tuscan-Red MP-54 train at New Haven Stattion was on an ERA fantrip during the brief Penn Central days, We also covered the New Canaan Branch, substituting for one regular shuttle round-trip schedule. It was not a very hot day, and regular passengers did nolt complain about lack of air-conditioning, At least one did comment about pleaasure at a once-in-a-lifetine expedrience, There is an old thread on that excursion.a