Hmm....those MU toilets !

Sorry....seemed like a logical choice for an opener here....

Well ok, why not. The tourist line I volunteer for has 3 of the trailer cars and they have modern toilets. What did the DL&W use? Is it safe to assume they never used retention tanks?

Tom,

HAHA... Your such a riot!! Lets not STINK this topic up! :roll: :D I love they new smiley icons....

Steve

"Next stop, Morristown......will the Morris Plains riders PLEASE refrain from flushing toilets as we enter the station!!!"

What a foul topic of discussion !

Carter -

Flush ? Twern't no flusher on dem MU toilets !

BTW, anyone recall if there was a sink in there with running water to ah....er....well....to a, shall we say to 'manually' comply with Carter's post for a flush of sorts ?

I'm still researching the MU car # in which Tom Edison had to see 'Mrs. Murphy' !

Time for a revival of this subject....

Anyone know if the toilets have survived into excursion service at any of the multiple locations the MU's scattered around the country ?

We need some 2004 pics of the MU toilets....anyone ?

Tom,

I recall that the toilets are still being used on the ex motor car Mu's that run out of Honesdale, Pa along the Stourbridge line..... I shed a tear in my eye when i saw "Jenny + Tim 1983" etched in the opaque fogged up windows. They must have used a probe to write that in1!!

Steve

Can't let this topic languish on page 2....

Still looking for any photos of the toilets....either then or now.

Did we ever get a consensus that Marcal out of Paterson was the sole supplier of TP to the Lackawanna ?

.....as in the toilets are MU'd like locomotives? Would hate to think what would happen if a jumper cable failed. Would you be zapped? What if the airhose broke? Would the toilets go into emergency? What would they do once they went into emergency? Also, does it mean that someone always has to be sitting on the lead toilet? A regular toilet has just one operating handle, would an MU Toilet have 3 handles like a loco control stand? If they do I really hope that there is no reverser, and I don't even want to think about what the dynamic brake lever would do......

Then there is the question of dual-control toilets so you can 'run' in either direction.........but I really feel I've flushed this out enough.

Enjoying the ride here on the BUOI (Buffs Using Overactive Imagination), just some food for thought!!!


Joe P
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You looked right down onto the tracks. In the winter, those little rooms were quite cold -- even with a couple of feet of heater pipe in them. Because of the direct-to-track disposal system, it made for really looking down when walking the track back then.

How'd this get dumped....err....how'd this stream over....ahh, sorry....well ah....how'd we let this get backed-up over to page 3 ?

Did I just say backed-up ? Please pass me a sheet or two of Marcal....

Tri-State Tom wrote:How'd this get dumped....err....how'd this stream over....ahh, sorry....well ah....how'd we let this get backed-up over to page 3 ?

Did I just say backed-up ? Please pass me a sheet or two of Marcal....

Tom,

Your fascination with this thread errr worries me....

Ummm......sure its not Tri-State John?