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Re: (erielack) E-L Wrecks in NJ

I was in 6th grade that year and when I came home from school I remember my mom turning on the TV and WNBC channel 4 had an airphoto of the wreck scene. My dad came home from work (on the EL) and said he heard about it. That night my plder brother drove us out to Dover to see the wreck. I remember seeing the overturned passenger cars, the basically decapitated RS unit and the Geep which was numbered in the 1400 series. There was also some Cat bulldozers there and some cranes I think. I was only 11 but remember it well to this day. The next day there was a photo in the NY Daily News with a small story about it. The engineer's name was Archibald Spear and he was soon to be up for retirement. Our 8MM home movies we took didn't come out except for when someone took a flash shot, or when you see the numberboard for the geep. Wow, has it been that long ago?





Fred Stratton

MP. 7.2 NS Asheville line

Salisbury, NC


From: Richard Pennisi <eldispatcher72_@_yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Richard Pennisi <eldispatcher72_@_yahoo.com>
To: Smtimko_@_aol.com, njnyrr@optonline.net, erielack@lists.elhts.org
Subject: Re: (erielack) E-L Wrecks in NJ
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:35:21 -0700 (PDT)
>
> 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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