Welcome to another Wednesday, and yet another edition of Midweek Photos. A couple weeks ago, my friends and I took a trek through New Jersey, and made a stop at the Whippany Railway Museum.
Whipping is just outside Morristown, NJ on the Morristown & Erie Railroad. Beginning in the 1960s, a tourist railroad operation called the Morris County Central ran a few miles of the M&E.
Power for the tourist line at first was this Southern Railway 2-8-0 no 385. While she looks solid now, she has not run since the late 1970s. The other steam engine, not shown in this post, is US Army 0-6-0 no 4039, which is disassembled. She last ran in 1980.
Very unique in the museum collection is this 4-wheel caboose, sometimes called a bobber, which was originally built for the Delaware Lackawanna & Western RR.
Another DL&W piece is this former subscription car. For an added price on top of the commuting cost, you could ride in style. It ran out of Hoboken NJ. This was recently restored.
This is a fireless cooker. Based not he Texaco markings, I would guess it worked the refinery along the Jersey coast. There are a lot of oil refineries and chemical plants in the Newark and Bayonne area.
There are several cabooses on display at the museum, and these are only a few of them. 
There are a lot of gems at the museum, so if you are in the Northern New Jersey area, definitely make a point of stopping by. This locomotive is Maine Eastern FL9 no. 488. It was bought by Morristown & Erie when they had a contract to operate out of Brunswick and Rockland ME. They bought the last 6 Amtrak FL9s, and refurbished a few for seasonal passenger service on the line, adding to the freight business. When the contract for the Maine route ended, this piece came to New Jersey. Many of the streamlined cars came along, too. This is the seasonal tourist train in Whippany these days.
Even in her faded paint, this F unit looks elegant.
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