Brand new to this great website! Wanted to add some answers to this interesting discussion: My former husband owned an original Pennsy gandy wagon; it was pristine and wonderful! This was 1972; we lived in East Setauket, and I often drove it to what was then my job at Abraham and Straus, in Smith Haven Mall. You can bet I fielded lots and lots of questions, once I'd park it! It was in the original Pennsy paint scheme, even had the logo on the nose; It was not illegal to drive it (all its rail ability was intact.) My husband, Fred, and I would take it to abandoned rail lines in central Jersey; we had a blast with it. Some years later, we divorced (very amicably) and stayed in touch over the years. At one point, when we'd, ultimately, lost touch, I was able to decipher, by following an online thread, that this is what ultimately had become of it:
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The photo was taken out on eastern Long Island, in either the '90's or early 2000's. Sad what becomes of one's possessions as life progresses; I am so grateful to have been a part of the railfan community, through Fred's lifelong interest in trains. We also took an unbelievably beautiful, fall-foliage trip between Boston and Montpelier, on Engine 759, in the fall of 1973; a memory I truly treasure.
