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Re: (erielack) E-L Wrecks in NJ

Rich,

What are the chances of that happening today?  Great story, by the way.

Chuck



                                                                           
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  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


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