As they had been doing every day since 1930, a set of former Lackawanna heavyweight MUs comes to a stop at Short Hills, NJ, en route to Hoboken. The indestructable 40-year-old cars had more than another decade of service ahead of them.
Thanks largely to mergers and bankruptcies, New Jersey's commuter railroads underwent profound changes between the end of steam and the takeover by NJ Transit in 1983.
