list, I was a senior in Dover High School on that day. The Vice Principle of our school was a railfan. About an hour after the crash I was paged on the PA system and told to report to his office. He told me what had happened and said let's go see what happened. So we left school and went to the site. We roamed around the area for about an hour and took some photos (he took me home first to get my camera) and then we went back to school. Rich Pennisi Smtimko_@_aol.com wrote: In a message dated 6/28/2006 9:49:22 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, njnyrr_@_optonline.net writes: November 2, 1966 Port Morris EL Phillipsburg Drill parked at Port Morris. The crew left the train unattended while going to lunch, and somehow it broke loose, eventually accelerating to over 60 miles per hour and it crashed head on into a 4 car electric train at Dover station, killing the engineer. A GP 7 and an RS 3 were involved. The lead GP 7 survived, while the RS 3 flew over the wreckage and was later scrapped. 1 Fatality, 8 Injuries (This sounds like a hell of a story) This was the demise of EL #902. I show it wrecked at Dover, NJ 11-01-66 and scrapped at Croxton. I photographed it in Hoboken shortly after the wreck. SMT The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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