PRSL MP-54 "Red" MU coach No. 6787

[nyshortline]

@tazamack That's because my cell phone video recorder is only good for 37 seconds. lol I use a digital camera nowadays.

[AG3304]

l did notice your points about the wooden MU cars,which the lCC banned.lt seems paranoid idiots are in the US as well as here in the UK! All they seem to have acheived is to shut down the electric operation.Another own goal,and hopefully voters remembered it!

[AG3304]

Nice,has the same solid look as the old Wickerliners did in New Jersey.

[nyshortline]

@AG3304 Thanks. The old "Reds" were a fixture wherever there was 11kv catenary or third rail. They could be found from NY to Washington DC and from Harrisburg PA to Atlantic City NJ. Two of the third rail versions are preserved at the Connecticut Trolley Museum in Warehouse Point CT, and at the Seashore Trollley Museum in Kennebunkport ME. To my knowledge one 11kv version is preserved at the RR Museum of PA in Strasburg PA. There may be another preserved somewhere in northern NJ.

[AG3304]

@nyshortline Good to think of the preserved ones,l expect the third rail ones still go!

[nyshortline]

@AG3304 The one at Warehouse Point, CT has had trolley poles installed on it and it did run a few times but is now in storage. The one in Maine has just been sitting and deteriorating. There are still other MP-54's that have been depowered and used as coaches on tourist lines in the Eastern US.

[AG3304]

@nyshortline lt's sad to think of these electrics resting and rusting.As you know,they really need to be run,or things sieze ep,the motors get damp,and that sort of undesirable stuff.l always think it's sad too when they take out all the traction equipment-it'll never run as an MU again if they do...