DescriptionDigital image of Thomas A. Edison et al with the first Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad multiple-unit electric passenger train leaving Hoboken for Montclair, N.J., Sept. 3, 1930. Digital copy of print belonging to and courtesy of Edison National Historic Site. From the left: D.L. & W. President J. M. Davis, Thomas Alva Edison, D.L. & W. Chairman William H. Truesdale. The others are not identified. See related for an article in archives catalog. Inscribed in the image: [Typed] Dear Mr. Edison: This is the first electric train on the Lackawanna (September 3rd, 1930), which you started and ran for half a mile through the tracks and switches of our terminal observing all signals like the men whose duty it is to do this work daily. [Signed] J.M. Davis [Typed] President