A piece of history from the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York is coming to East Haven.
PATH Car 745, from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was one of two cars found in cast iron tunnel under the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the attacks. That tunnel allowed the cars to withstand the pressures from the collapsing buildings above.
The car now here in Connecticut was supposed to be part of the 9/11 Museum, but it was too big, according to a news release from the mayor’s office in East Haven, and the Shore Line Trolley Museum has reached an agreement with the Port Authority to receive it.
On the morning of Sept. 11, the train was sent to the World Trade Center to pick up passengers, but none were found inside when the car was discovered during excavation.
It was housed in an airplane hangar at JFK Airport and is still in the condition it was in when crews removed it from the tunnel.
This addition to the museum will help tell the public transit story of the recent past.
The train will arrived on River Street in East Haven at 11:15 a.m. to a Bagpipe parade with a police and fire escort from the corner of River and Hemingway Avenue, down to the Trolley Museum at 17 River Street.
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The Shore Line Trolley Museum will create a permanent display for the train car and will include signs from the World Trade Center station as well as pieces of the tunnel itself.
