First LIST M1 Fan Trip May, 1969!

[RGlueck]

I seriously don't believe the "new" M1 cars are being retired.  They just arrived!

These were shot onthe first M1 fan trip, when I was 19 years old, shortly after the dinosaurs died out.  Seems a good time to share them with you young pups.










They never had the soul of the various member so fhte great steel fleet that preceded them, but no doubt, they'll be missed by many.

[RetiredLIRRConductor]

Dont think I ever saw a photo of an M-1 with a Conductor in a grey uniform before. By the time I hired on in 73, most of the "MU" guys had blue uniforms. The old timers who worked out east still wore the greys. Guess they just had not gotten aroung to going to the tailor shop in jamaica for new uniforms.
How about that metroliner going by hunterspoint ave with the Penn Central logo on it!

[RGlueck]

At the time you could still occassionally find a Metroliner cab wearing teh Keystone logo, but sadly, I never photographed one.  They were early converts to the the "woem" logo.  Sad to think that even the "worm" looks good today!
The M1 cars were so incredibly different from the steel fleet that they met with mixed reviews.  Publicity wise, they were clean and usually worked, but they were light-weight and when something went wrong, they attracted all kinds of attention.  The Highly publicized electrical fire in two of them made the papers, but was hushed under strict company orders.  We kids snuch in behind the shops to see two melted slabs of muck hidden along with the damaged Budd car and the "Jamaica" parlor car.  I couldn't get a picture of the melted M1's, but I know Bob Dunnett did.
The M1's had serious birthing pains, so the MP54's, double-deckers, and zips, continued to run for months after they were supposed to be gone.  The MP72's were converted into push-pull cars.   

[lirrmike]

Time sure does fly by! All the shots I said I'll get the next time, well I never got! I'm guilty of just sitting back and watching the trains roll by. I sometimes didn't want to watch them through the viewfinder.

Mike

[RetiredLIRRConductor]

When I hired on, I was just a kid. I did not realize the history happening around me. I was only 19, and more interested in girls and rock and roll. Wish I had taken a camera to work more often. I do have some ealy photos, they are at my soon to be ex wifes house. I will press the lawyer to get them so i can share them. We still had some of the MU's  (mp72's)  running in and out of Brooklyn, and to west hempstead when i first hired on in 73. The double deckers were done about august 72.

[RGlueck]

I would love to get a M1 air horn if any are available.  Anyone have a resource or suggestion?