A Father’s Day Special…An annual tradition at the Whippany Railway Museum in Whippany, NJ is the operation of train rides on Father’s Day. The consist of the train can be quite interesting as seen in this photo I took of the 2018 special. Behind the locomotive is a Jersey Central club car painted in a Blue Comet inspired livery followed by Pennsylvania, Erie Lackawanna, Delaware and Hudson, Jersey Central and Susquehanna cabooses all restored in historically accurate liveries.
The Whippany Railway Museum is located along the original mainline of the Morristown and Erie Railway. The museum specials are operated in conjunction with the M&E. The power was the 2354, one of Morristown and Erie’s recently acquired former Norfolk Southern MP15DC units. The locomotive was originally delivered to the Southern Railway in 1977.
Bob
