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| Author: | Daylight25 [ Tue Mar 25, 2025 9:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | URHS Acquires Lost Merci Train Boxcar |
This caught me off guard today. Congratulations to the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey on the discovery https://railfan.com/long-long-merci-tra ... ew-jersey/ |
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| Author: | NVPete [ Wed Mar 26, 2025 12:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: URHS Acquires Lost Merci Train Boxcar |
Pennsylvania checking in. We know where ours is so I'm glad Jersey found theirs... LOL https://maps.app.goo.gl/vX8Wxrc6Z1NTqJqHA Don't know what happened to the provincial placards that used to be on it, however. Contrary to what its webpage says, the car never "drifted into obscurity" but it did start to fall into disrepair after sitting out in the open at that same general location for many years, ever since I was a little kid and before that... http://mercitrain.org/Pennsylvania/ Actually, if I remember right, it was once displayed as the focal point of a large planting bed surrounded by shrubs and flowers, far from obscure. It's been turned around since then as well, with the "Gratitude Train" side now facing the intersection. Here's a 2019 PennLive article describing the car's arrival in Harrisburg in February of 1949... https://www.pennlive.com/life/2019/10/d ... -1949.html Anyway, NJ's car obviously needs a new set of those placards. Perhaps ours does also. |
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