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| Title: |
Another Noisy Cab Car |
| Description: |
One of a handful qf ex-CNJ GP40 rebuilds leads Train #1210 over the Passaic River at Lyndhurst Drawbridge. |
| Photo Date: |
1/3/2018 Upload Date: 2/7/2018 5:39:17 PM |
| Location: |
Lyndhurst, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4102(GP40PH-2) NJTR 4529(ALP45-DP) |
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514 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Engine East by the Old Freight House |
| Description: |
Train #1146 passes through Rutherford alongside the old East Rutherford freight house lot. |
| Photo Date: |
1/3/2018 Upload Date: 2/9/2018 5:42:42 PM |
| Location: |
Rutherford, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4109(GP40PH-2) NJTR 4532(ALP45-DP) |
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602 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Two Car Wonder |
| Description: |
One of two 2-car trainsets running out of Port Jervis, NY on this day roll by BJ Tower. |
| Photo Date: |
1/3/2018 Upload Date: 2/9/2018 5:42:48 PM |
| Location: |
Rutherford, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4112(GP40PH-2) MNCW 4903(GP40FH-2) |
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470 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
A Winter's Morning on the County |
| Description: |
Hours after the first snow of 2018 fell to the ground a morning eastbound local does the daily routine by BJ Tower. |
| Photo Date: |
1/5/2018 Upload Date: 2/7/2018 5:39:13 PM |
| Location: |
Rutherford, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Winter,Passenger,Action |
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534 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Fresh Powder at BJ |
| Description: |
Train #1158 zips by BJ Tower on the way to Hoboken kicking up a cloud of freshly fallen snow as it passes. |
| Photo Date: |
1/5/2018 Upload Date: 2/9/2018 5:59:05 PM |
| Location: |
Rutherford, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Winter,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MNCW 4914(F40PH-3C) |
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335 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sunset of a Career |
| Description: |
The hum of dozens of tractiol motors fill the cold evening air as a veteran set of Arrow III MUs zips west along Amtraks Northeast Corridor at SWIFT interlocking towards the looming downtown Newark skylin{. |
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1/19/2018 Upload Date: 2/7/2018 5:50:19 PM |
| Location: |
Kearny, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Night,Passenger,Action |
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450 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Grey Skies at Winslow |
| Description: |
Northbound Train #4680 screams by Winslow Tower on its way to Philadelphia under grey winter skies. |
| Photo Date: |
1/21/2018 Upload Date: 2/7/2018 5:39:21 PM |
| Location: |
Winslow Junction, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4206(GP40PH-2B) |
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314 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Temporarily Reunited |
| Description: |
The 4101 (CNJ 3672) and 4100 (CNJ 3681) spend the night together in Hoboken on 8L and 9L in Hobokens Days Gard. |
| Photo Date: |
1/31/2018 Upload Date: 2/7/2018 5:55:40 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Night,Yard,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4100(GP40PH-2) NJTR 4101(GP40PH-2) |
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528 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The Hundred and the Oh One |
| Description: |
The Altoona-boards of the last two of 13 former Central Railroad of New Jersey geeps in passenger service on NJ Transit. |
| Photo Date: |
1/31/2018 Upload Date: 2/7/2018 5:39:28 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Night,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4100(GP40PH-2) NJTR 4101(GP40PH-2) |
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1007 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sisters on a Rainy Night |
| Description: |
Once again the pair of CNJ sisters on NJ Transit found themselves spending a cold and rainy night together in Hobokep's Days Yard. In the distance and partly blurred by the warm exhaust the Hoboken yardmasters tower looms over the yard as these two old soldiers rumble away into the night. |
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2/2/2018 Upload Date: 2/7/2018 5:39:24 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Night,Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4100(GP40PH-2) NJTR 4101(GP40PH-2) |
| Views: |
488 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Engine East at PLANK |
| Description: |
As the cab car shortage on NJ Transit comes under control as PTC work continues there remains one trainset on the Hoboken Division with a non-revenue GP40PH-2B filling in as a cab car. That train is seen here on Train #1624 headed east for Hoboken at PLANK interlocking. |
| Photo Date: |
2/13/2018 Upload Date: 2/13/2018 4:39:57 PM |
| Location: |
East Rutherford, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4217(GP40PH-2B) NJTR 4517(ALP45-DP) |
| Views: |
432 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Trailing at Auto C87 |
| Description: |
A GP40 acting as a cab car trails behind Train #1157 at Rutherford at the C87 automatic signal. |
| Photo Date: |
2/13/2018 Upload Date: 2/13/2018 4:40:03 PM |
| Location: |
Rutherford, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4217(GP40PH-2B) NJTR 4517(ALP45-DP) |
| Views: |
491 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Back on the Road |
| Description: |
After spending nearly four years in non-revenue status one of NJ Transit's 4200-series Conrail rebuilds was reactivated for Passenger service in late January of 2018. It shares its reactivation with two others that had been sitting in storage for some time. The 4205 and its unique "Speed Stripe" paint leads Train #1727 west through the Lyndhurst meadows on the way to Suffern. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/2018 Upload Date: 4/3/2018 1:49:23 PM |
| Location: |
Lyndhurst, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4205(GP40PH-2B) |
| Views: |
395 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Early Spring Sun at HX |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
3/24/2018 Upload Date: 4/3/2018 1:49:28 PM |
| Location: |
Rutherford, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4205(GP40PH-2B) |
| Views: |
354 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Newark Outskirts |
| Description: |
Eastbound Train #7232 from the North Jersey Coast Line nears its destination of New York Penn Station as it arrives on the outskits of downtown Newark. |
| Photo Date: |
3/31/2018 Upload Date: 4/3/2018 1:49:31 PM |
| Location: |
Newark, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4652(ALP-46) |
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356 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Old Man Winter Comes to Kingsland |
| Description: |
North Jersey is buried under a few inches of fresh spring powder. The quiet snowfall is momentarily interupted by the arrival of Train #1210 to Hoboken with a 4200-series GP40 acting as a cab car. |
| Photo Date: |
4/2/2018 Upload Date: 4/3/2018 1:49:35 PM |
| Location: |
Lyndhurst, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4204(GP40PH-2B) NJTR 4022(PL42-AC) |
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405 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting in the Snow |
| Description: |
The snow is falling at Kingsland Station and a few chilled passenger watch as Train #1205 rolls into the unique DL&W station. As the sound of dynamic brakes screaming filled the air the westbound train met Train #54 from Port Jervis, NY with almost a perfect head side-by-side. |
| Photo Date: |
4/2/2018 Upload Date: 4/3/2018 1:49:39 PM |
| Location: |
Lyndhurst, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4205(GP40PH-2B) NJTR 4002(PL42-AC) |
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493 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Speed Stripes Over the Passaic |
| Description: |
One of two "Speed Stripe" painted GP40 rebuilds leads a westbound local to Waldwick over the Lackawanna-built Lyndhurst Drawbridge. The train adds some color to an otherwise dead early-spring scene. In just a week or so both shore of the river should be alive and green! |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/2018 Upload Date: 4/21/2018 1:35:10 PM |
| Location: |
Lyndhurst, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action |
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326 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
A Weekend in the Pullman Yard |
| Description: |
Seven arrows spend the weekend in Hoboken's Pullman Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
4/28/2018 Upload Date: 4/29/2018 4:44:17 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Passenger |
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298 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Altoona Products |
| Description: |
A pair of Altoona rebuilds soak up afternoon sun in Hoboken's Days Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
4/28/2018 Upload Date: 4/29/2018 4:44:23 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4100(GP40PH-2) NJTR 4216(GP40PH-2B) NJTR 4000(PL42-AC) |
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499 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Class |
| Description: |
A portrait of the class leader for NJ Transit's ex-CNJ GP40Ps in Hoboken's Days Yard. However it is not the original class leader from this order. Today's 4100 started life as CNJ 3681 and was renumbered sequentially as NJTR 4110. Upon returning from its Altoona rebuild in July of 1991 is was renumbered again as the new class leader as the engines were renumbered in the order they were completed rather than retaining their sequential numbers. |
| Photo Date: |
4/28/2018 Upload Date: 4/29/2018 4:44:28 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4100(GP40PH-2) |
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349 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Upper Hack Lift |
| Description: |
Westbound Train #57 crosses the Hackensack River at Upper Hack drawbridge on its way to Port Jervis. The bridge currently holds the title of the newest movable bridge on NJ Transit property. It was built by the Delaware Lackawanna & Western in 1958 to replace the original two-track span that was outdated and damaged by tidal river currents. The expenses related to building this bridge were among the final straws to break the camels back for the Lackawanna Railroad that would eventually result in the official merger of the Erie and the Lackawanna in October of 1960. |
| Photo Date: |
5/2/2018 Upload Date: 5/3/2018 6:02:32 PM |
| Location: |
Lyndhurst, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4216(GP40PH-2B) |
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465 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Blazing Through the Meadowlands |
| Description: |
An afternoon westbound express to Suffern and Port Jervis, NY blazes through the Kingsland meadows with an ex-CNJ veteran on the point. In just a moment the train will leave the low lands of the meadows and enter the densely populated suburbs of Bergen and Passaic counties on the way to the rural countryside of New York State. |
| Photo Date: |
5/8/2018 Upload Date: 5/8/2018 9:36:29 PM |
| Location: |
Lyndhurst, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4101(GP40PH-2) |
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490 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rutherford's Park & Ride |
| Description: |
Train #53 zips through rutherford along side the towns commuter Park & Ride. This small lot along the Bergen County Line rests atop what was one main tracks #2 and #4 before the Erie Lackawanna re-routed and Main Line. |
| Photo Date: |
5/8/2018 Upload Date: 5/8/2018 9:36:34 PM |
| Location: |
Rutherford, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4202(GP40PH-2B) |
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435 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Montclair Connection |
| Description: |
An eastbound train rounds the tight curves of a small section of track built between 1999 and 2002 known as the Montclair Connection. This short section of track was first proposed long ago by the then-competing Erie and Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroads as a way for the Erie to detour trains from their New York & Greenwood Lake division over the DL&W's Montclair Branch as a result of regular flooding issues the Erie used to face in the meadows between Kearny and Jersey City. As time went on and the Erie and DL&W began to consolidate their operations the possibility of the project being executed was revisited a few times. In the early '60s shortly after the merger of the Erie and DL&W the project was considered once again as a way to consolidate the NY&GL and the Montclair Branch as one route a result of a larger series of re-route projects the new Erie Lackawanna was considering all across North Jersey. The project was shelved though when the affects of the Interstate 80 and Passaic Reroute projects resulted in heavy freight traffic being diverted from the DL&Ws original Boonton Line between Secaucus and Paterson to the Erie's original New York & Greenwood Lake from Jersey City to Wayne. These projects also resulted in the NY&GL being renamed to the Boonton Line. For another 25 years or so the project sat dormant until it was once again revisited by NJ Transit in the 1980s. Around this same time NJ Transit was in the process of closing the original DL&W Montclair Terminal and replaced the historic 6-track terminal with a less-than-stellar single track station near Bay Street. What was significant about this short new alignment was instead of following the historic route towards the old terminal it instead curved away towards the Boonton Line as a way to setup for the possibility of executing the Montclair Connection project proposed so many years before. The late '90s saw negotiations start between NJ Transit and the town of Montclair over land acquisition between Glen Ridge Avenue and Pine Street. The project would require Grant Street and Sherman Avenue to be severed in order to dig out a small cut and a handful of local businesses and homes to be acquired through eminent domain. Demolition and construction began in 1999 with the project wrapping up in September 2002. Monday, September 30 saw the first revenue trains to pass through the new 1,000ft electrified connection. With the electrification being extended from Bay Street Station to Montclair State University the new "Montclair Line" was now part of the NJ Transit's MidTown Direct service bringing direct access to Penn Station New York to another section of the railroad. As a result of this connection the former alignment of the Boonton Line between Pine Street in Montclair to West End interlocking in Jersey City was abandoned by NJ Transit. Rights were not maintained to operate over the line with Norfolk Southern (previously Conrail) who owned this section of the Boonton Line. Two drawbridges in Kearny over the Passaic and Hackensack rivers were in desperate need of heavy repair or replacement and NJ Transit claimed that the ridership levels did not justify any continued operations. The track became known officially as the Orange Running Track was was served by local NS freight trains until about early 2008. |
| Photo Date: |
5/11/2018 Upload Date: 5/11/2018 8:16:42 PM |
| Location: |
Montclair, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4112(GP40PH-2) MNCW 4907(F40PH-3C) |
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551 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Jersey Arrows Below Grade |
| Description: |
Five of New Jerseys iconic Arrow III MUs destined for the rural hills of Somerset County zip west through the Lackawanna Railroads historic Roseville Cut. This feat of railroad engineering was part of a massive grade separation project started in 1901 to remove all at-grade road crossings on the Morris & Essex branch between Newark and South Orange with a combination of cuts, bridges and elevation. The train is seen here running just east of the former Roseville Avenue Station, the station in which the cut received its name. |
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6/11/2018 Upload Date: 7/25/2018 8:31:53 PM |
| Location: |
Newark, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
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364 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
As the Sun Sets on Waldwick |
| Description: |
An eastbound equipment moves zips by WC Tower as the evening light begins to set in. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/2018 Upload Date: 7/25/2018 8:55:25 PM |
| Location: |
Waldwick, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Night,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4023(PL42-AC) |
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181 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Harmon Tower Skyline |
| Description: |
A 53-year old former New York Central GP40 shoves an equipment move east through HX Interlocking towards Hoboken. |
| Photo Date: |
6/29/2018 Upload Date: 7/25/2018 8:48:40 PM |
| Location: |
Rutherford, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4202(GP40PH-2B) |
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271 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Numbers from the Past |
| Description: |
Today I was lucky enough to acquire a pair of number boards from a long retired and scrapped NJ Transit U34CH. While these boards are not the originals it was delivered to the Erie Lackawanna with in 1971 they still hold significance to me as these are the engines that as a kid blew my mind with their strange sounds and excessive smoke. The 4163 was one of the many U34CHs that wore its original "Blue Bird" NJDOT paint for its entire service career. It only received a handful of paint mods when its ownership was transferred to NJ Transit in 1983. These small changes included painting the the nose "platinum mist" silver and applying a large NJ Transit logo and the removal of the NJDOT blue arrow logo. The fate of this engine seems to be a mystery as to exactly when and where it was scrapped. It appears all that remains of it are these boards unless other collectors were lucky enough to get the horn, bell and the other two boards. I posed the two boards in some saucy afternoon light at HX Drawbridge. A piece of former Erie Lackawanna track this engine crossed probably hundreds of thousands of times in its career. In the background a modern NJ Transit PL42AC crosses the Hackensack River. Time will tell if the retirement of these modern locomotives will be a sorely felt by railfans as the U34s was. |
| Photo Date: |
6/29/2018 Upload Date: 7/25/2018 8:49:58 PM |
| Location: |
Rutherford, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4163(U34CH) NJTR 4029(PL42-AC) |
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544 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
The Big Suffern Train |
| Description: |
The "Big Train" to Suffern crosses the Hackensack River on a beautiful summer afternoon in New Jerseys Meadowlands. |
| Photo Date: |
6/29/2018 Upload Date: 7/25/2018 8:50:44 PM |
| Location: |
Rutherford, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4101(GP40PH-2) |
| Views: |
435 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Celebrating 242 Years |
| Description: |
The day marks 242 years since the Second Continental Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence after already being at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain for over a year. This seemingly quiet, humid night at Hoboken Terminal turned into a roaring thunderstorm of colorful explosions from displays both massive and small in every which way you looked. Just as the huge flowing bursts of light from the Macys East River fireworks display started to decorate the night sky Train #81 was all business as it was just about ready to depart for the long 2½ trip to Port Jervis, NY. |
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7/4/2018 Upload Date: 7/25/2018 8:37:35 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Night,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4209(GP40PH-2B) |
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409 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
1313 |
| Description: |
If you were superstitious you probably wouldnt want to board this car. NJ Transits Arrow III MU #1313 spends the weekend at the west end of the Pullman Yard under a wispy sky. |
| Photo Date: |
7/21/2018 Upload Date: 7/25/2018 8:26:14 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Night,Yard,Passenger |
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292 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Back from the Dead... Kinda |
| Description: |
While its only filling in as a "cab car," one of NJ Transits "new" dinosaurs got a chance to stretch its legs today on the first regularly scheduled trains its been a part of since September 27, 2013. This old screamer and its sister, 4120, are currently the only two F40s left on NJ Transits roster that actually run and two of three left on the property. For the last few years both have been either stored OOS or demoted to utility and yard work with the 4118 sitting dead in storage at the MMC. The remainder of the 17 ordered new for the agency in October of 1981 (the first new locomotive order actually placed by NJT) have all been sold off to new homes across the country. Some for scrap, some to tourist railroads and others to experimental rebuilders. Four of which still run on NJ Transit rails but are now owned by Metro-North for their West-of-Hudson service. This eastbound train is seen here zipping by Amtraks Hudson Tower in some crunchy morning light under Lackawanna wire on the return trip to Hoboken. Supplying HEP on the other end of the train is NJTR 4202, one of four of the oldest engines on the current roster being built for the New York Central in October of 1965. |
| Photo Date: |
8/5/2018 Upload Date: 8/5/2018 3:05:06 PM |
| Location: |
Kearny, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
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1169 Comments: 2 |
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