| Title: |
MTA M2 #8401 - Metropolitan Transportation Auithority |
| Description: |
Great press photo from GE on the co-development with Budd ComapnyTress release on the back of the photo states -" June 23, 1972. Unveiling of First GE-New haven Cars. Erie, PA - This first pari of General Electri-built New Haven commuter cars are the first of 144 ordered by New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authorigy and Connecticut's Department of Transportation. The stainless steel, air-condicitioned cars, which have already undergone more that 2,000 miles of test on GE's own track in Erie, Pa, will be tested for an additional 8,000 miles on New haven track before entering passenger service this fall. The last of the new cars will be belivered by the fall of 1973." No specific GE publicity photographer was listed. of the M2 series of EMU's for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. |
| Photo Date: |
6/23/1972 Upload Date: 10/25/2020 8:34:15 AM |
| Location: |
Erie, PA |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
MTA 8401(M-2 Cosmopolitan) |
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