NJ USA Morris & Essex Lines with Lackawanna MU cars - with expert commentary.
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- čas přidán 22. 01. 2020
- 25 Minutes.
Richard Moncrief took movie film of these lines just before they were upgraded to the present trains which included a change to AC power in the overhead.
The videoing of a movie film as it shone on the screen was about all the average person could afford in those days. The resultant quality was not marvellous but it is all that is left of these films today.
Richard's commentary brings the film to life. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
thanks for the historical record.
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Hello from Pennsylvania. Starting in 1970 and for several periods prior to the AC equipment start-up, I rode these trains from first Murray Hill, then Summit, and Convent Station, during the time the trains were operated by the DL&W, and the Erie Lackawanna after the merger. The service was amazing. The on-time performance was surely in the 98% range. The cars were by then several decades old, but were kept in A-1 condition.
It was totally first-class commuting service into the NYC area. A pleasure to ride. CAS.
Thanks for your recovery recollections. I know that Richard much admired the operation. I know I rode it once or twice. Trains with character.
@Charles Shivoder Completely off topic, but what breed of dog is that? It looks like a fox.
Funny you said August 1981. My parents were literally just married and had an apartment on Mountainview Ave in Orange and right down the street was Highland Ave station. They both used to take that train to work. My mother worked in Hoboken and my father to Penn Station to his job at the Post Office across the street.
Nice coincidence, but even more so was that in 1981 I was working in the Australian Post Office. Over my career there, I did all jobs between postmaster and postman 😊
@@tressteleg1 I worked at the post office in college. My father was a Postal Inspector for 34 years.
I was only ever in suburban Post Offices, never a mail sorting Centre or administrative office. On one of my visits, I was staying with a friend at Bergenfield New Jersey and recall going to the sorting office of his local postman and doing part of the delivery round with him. I still have a little spray can of dog repellent which was issued to your postmen and called HALT! It still works 😊
Pure nostalgia!! I've ridden this line from Penn Station to Convent Station.
Thank you for sharing this video.😀😀♥️♥️
Thanks for uploading this! As a native of Millington, I can't get enough of videos and pictures of the old electrics. My father and grandfather have stories of riding them
I’m pleased that you liked it 😊 Share it with your friends as it deserves more Views!
@@tressteleg1 seeing long hill in the 70's surreal
That's how I went to HS. Short Hills to Madison and maybe a stop in Summit where the good restaurants are. Cutters used to be the place. And Convent Station? Many a times where family lived next to Rob's Steak House. I'm 62 now but growing up they were the days. Can't afford Jersey now. Disabled veteran in Pennsylvania. Oh those Green cars. I now live in Butler Pennsylvania overlooking several tracks. Usually 4 locomotives...2 at each end and 90 cars. Amazing. Sometimes 2am. You hear the horn. I'm in a high rise overlooking the track. Love it.
I’m pleased it brought back memories. As for the whistle code for road crossings, thank goodness that is unique to the US. Elsewhere a simple Toot is adequate (Thank Goodness!!) At least your view is appealing 😊
Proud my dad captured so much of this. I just wish so much more of the 8mm film he shot was salvageable by the time I got to it. Thank you Richard Y.!
Richard Moncrief Richard, it is a pleasure to present such valuable historic footage for everyone to see.
Your dad also put commentary on some of the New York elevated lines which were removed many years ago and he also covered the Staten Island rail line in days before many of the road crossings were removed. I will publish these in the future but we must get more viewers to watch the present video.
He did a great job!
Richard Moncrief sounds like an interesting man. Very enjoyable to listen to and certainly educational. As far as I'm concerned these were the glory days of rail.
Yes he was an interesting man who sadly left us 12 or so years ago. I still have rare contact with his son. It was an interesting time in New York, just a pity graffiti spoilt it but to some, it was a feature of the era.
Completely amazing I watched every minute this is important history. Thanks for posting this I truly enjoyed it. I remember traveling to Hoboken from Manhattan when I was a kid around 1972 or so and seeing those electric Lackawanna cars sitting in the station they looked so cool! I never got to ride on them I don't even remember why I went t here I was alone i think looking for trains.
Around the time this film was taken, I was working full time in New York and getting a degree at night from Columbia University. On Sundays I used to take the train to Hoboken Station and take one of these MU trains to Bernardsville or some other station. I remember some of the cars had stained glass windows built into the ceiling. Sometimes I would have a conversation with the engineer. The seats were rattan. I'd have a cup of black coffee while enjoying the trip.
😊👍 While the new cars are no doubt ‘better’, I dare say they lack the atmosphere of the old ones. Unfortunately that is true nearly everywhere.
And now the replacement Arrow ll cars are all gone, too.
A few short years ago it was a different dimension. Thanks for this great presentation!
Really enjoyed it, thanks.
Jeffrey Ornstein 👍😊
Very interesting footage. These pantograhps are huge! They reach up very high. Thanks for sharing!
Marc van der Linden 😊👍
Awesome video. I took these trains to high school everyday from Gladstone to Bernardsville, and into Hoboken to the PATH trains on Friday & Saturday nights to drink underage in Manhattan. ;-) The seats were mostly wicker until some got covered in the last year or so before the trains were replaced, the windows opened, and had working shades you could pull down. My grandfather remembers the electrics first coming to Gladstone when he was a kid. Evidently Thomas Edison himself was at the train controls in Sept 1930 for the inaugural run.
The toilet was a toilet seat on a metal platform that was open to the tracks below. A sign warned not to use the bathroom while the train was in station. ;-)
We had nicknames for the conductors: One very wide man (whose butt rubbed both rows of seats as he went down the aisle) was called Pasta, and another older man who was usually inebriated (and had bottles hidden in the electrical panels at each end of the cars) was called Mumbles. ;-)
Thanks for all your memories 😊
Great information thanks for sharing mate
Graeme Mellor 👍😊
Parts of the Morris and Essex lines are parallel with I-78 from exit 29 to exit 14C Hoboken. Had Erie Lackawanna merged with Milwaukee RR then the Little Joes can be sent East to the Morristown Area with them pulling trains over the steep hill from Bernardsville Exit 30 287 I-78 exits 29-36 to South Orange I-78 exit 49. One drawback of the Morris and Essex line electric territory is how their platforms can't fit a PRR NJ Transit Electric territory train length of 10-13 cars
Thanks for your local knowledge. 😊
glad to see the mus going across the millington trestle I hike under I frequently to watch the rush hour trains
Amazing I took these trains from short hills to Newark an later to Hoboken .
Good memories, eh? 😊👍
@ 14:45 - Arrow III: 1977-present. Jersey Arrows are approaching 45 years of service. Almost there...
Jman2013 It makes you feel old when you see brand-new trains or trams enter service and next thing you know they are old and worn out and get scrapped. I have seen that happen here quite a few times, and if you have not seen it happen yourself, you will once you are a bit older 😒
4:39 Reminds me of Camberwell train station.
planetx15 😊👍
Picture quality gets a "D" grade.
I look forward to seeing your super HD quality video of this line taken in those days!
What station is 2:34 at?
Summit, NJ
Trains loke a little like the Red Rattlers in Melbourne
It is probably the clerestory (upper) roof which gives that look.
@@tressteleg1 👍
Wish the RRs made a comeback.
planetx15 They will when people start riding trains instead of driving themselves everywhere.
There once was a idea to run a Red Rattler from Flinders Street to Belgrave for the Tourist to Puffing Billy.