Engines of Metro North, ACMU 

The GE 1240 motors and SCM control make the 1962/1965 ACMUs very similar to the contemporary R29/R32/R33/R36.

Also two of these cars survive at the Kentucky Railway Museum cars 1105 and 1153. With 1105 being in service. When the museum bought them they where told they where converted to 420 volt AC power for HEP but this was not true. So they rewired 1105 for AC HEP power and are using 1153 for storage and parts.

The old NYC and Penn Central footage are excellent finds.

What's odd is that the first ACMU's were built at about the same time as Montreal's MU's, but the latter used 1920's technology like grinding gears, open windows, etc. while the ACMU's were at that time the most modern thing on rails.

I remember riding these when I was a kid in the 60's.They lasted for a few decades after.Shows how well built they were.

I remember seeing those trains bouncing along the rails, my dad would take me over to botanical gardens station to watch the trains and I’d see them , like one eyed monsters coming up from Fordham rd. I also got to see third avenue el trains crossing over the ny central tracks onto Webster ave and over the concrete structure by moshulu pky. I liked watching the signals change color and go back to green over green long after the train passed. I remember an accident at botanical gardens station sb, where another train ran into the back of another and stopped rail traffic in both directions, I rode over on my bike to survey the damage and partially restored service on express and northbound local tracks, trains were constantly going by I never saw an electric locomotive till that day, back in 1975. Never rode on an acmu train only m3-7 fleet. Supposed to comfortable riding on these trains.

I've actually been on those older cars, my father used to commute into the City from the Peekskill station, changing trains in Croton Harmon. LOVE the historical and informational format, excellent video..

Thanks for posting, I never get an explanation for metro north history.

I would like to see the spv-2000 and Amtrak turboliner done. I use to live across the street from crugers station growing up and these two trains stuck out to me.

Loved these cars, had my last ride on these on December 28th 2004, on 1171 actually. I filmed the ride between Hartsdale and North White Plains inside the car, one day I will have that tape converted to digital. I remember seeing them in a big line in North White Plains yard in February of '05 waiting to be hauled off to scrap, then sitting on a siding near Mount Vernon West covered in graffiti that summer.

1037# one of the original acmu stories car that was retired in 1970 was or still around use for a company call commuter Club as a private car and not all lot of information is not available.

Also this vid was uploaded on the same day as thunderbolt 1000 sirens prdotons engines of SEPTA he did the AEM-7

There are two more survivors other than those at Danbury; two survive at Kentucky Railway Museum. One is NYC #4605, and I forget the # of the other.

The acmu looks nice

I miss the lirr p-75s they were great.

Thanks for making this amazing video

These were often called 1100s in later years. There is a fantrip video on my channel somewhere.

Have you done the Pullman Washboards of the New Haven yet? I'm speaking of the 4400 series MCUs that were replaced by the Budds circa 1970.

You should do the m9s

Finally you talked about it

Speaking of pullman standard cars being in service way too long, Metra has some pullman bilevels dating back to 1956, yea you read that right. 1956.

These unit looks like a powered cab cars

Do the shorelines cars

Nice!

5:34, IS THAT TRAIN ON FIRE!?

Pleas do the spv-2000

I'm building Metro North in Minecraft, so i'm using your videos as references XD

Do they have air conditioning installed or not?

Sweet

I know these guys I used to work with them.

Let’s get this legend to 1000 subscribers we are almost there 994 Edit: were at 997 keepem coming Edit:Shoutout to newyork Railfan 202... Who is now barer of 1k subs

Please do the CSX ET44

SPV-2000 or F40

2:22 Anybody know what station this is?

Wen will da next live stream b

Do gp38-2 LIRR and metro North.

I have a question what train station is that 2:37

They look like car cars

Start MTA transit first start R32 nyc

2 hours ago

Slower..... Slower.... and pause between sentences. You're rushing again.