1984: Final Lackawanna MU Trains Leave Hoboken; Horn & Whistle Symphony/Tribute

[@MuhamadKahfi-e9p]

2:00 The train horn is similar to the CC 201 locomotive horn in Indonesia.

[@EDOTrains]

Is that similar to this? Commuter trains, multiple units sort of thing?

[@mr.conductorfromsts4204]

Great Horns from the Lackawanna Electrics and one horn that sounds like the Shinkansen at 2:53

[@EDOTrains]

Someone mentioned that the Middletown & Hummelstown still operates them as cab cars. I'm sharing this video which has one of the former MUs leading, still with its iconic horns! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ7JdJpppsSVqtksi=OPTWhyaEyostzzvj&t=360 Thank you for watching; please consider subscribing if you haven't already!

[@bobmmann3917]

This was 1984. Looks more like 1944! How old were these trains at the time?

[@LJRailfan-Gamer_07.]

53 years old. Constructed in 1931

[@cats0182]

@@LJRailfan-Gamer_07. And the chances of today's equipment lasting 53 years is somewhere between slim and nil.

[@EDOTrains]

Rivets, baby, let's go! The cool thing is how much of this equipment survived because you had a wide variety of tourist railroads in need of equipment; equipment that they could pay scrap prices for and, as you correctly identified, create a early 20th century / wartime look and experience. Thank you to all of you for your comments. Please subscribe if you haven't; plenty more good'uns to come

[@elirosen1391]

Were all those cars on revenue runs for their last day of service?

[@EDOTrains]

Yes sir. Something I picked up on was a fair amount of diesel-powered trains operating in what's normally electric territory for NJT. As I understand it, when the end was approaching for the MUs, if one of these cars had a failure, it would essentially be retired on the spot (as opposed to spending precious capital $$ on repairs to a piece of equipment that would be retired in X months/weeks, etcetera. Thus, a fair amount of footage of U34CHs with Comet Cars, 'under the wire.'