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12/24/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1978 - 3/10/2011
Album Info:NJ Transit and predecessors trains
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Old and new
Title:  Old and new
Description:  A pair of ex CNJ GP40Ps passes a then new F40 waiting for a train from New York as it makes its way to Bay Head.
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 1:52:51 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4105(GP40P) NJT 4109(GP40P) NJT 4128(F40PH-2)
Views:  561   Comments: 0
New power
Title:  New power
Description:  An F40 backs onto a train from New York to take it the rest of the way to Bay Head.
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 1:53:53 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4115(F40PH-2CAT)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
Coming in for a change
Title:  Coming in for a change
Description:  One of the New York bound trains comes in to South Amboy, where it will cut off and get an E60 for the rest of the trip to Penn Station.
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 1:55:30 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4116(F40PH-2)
Views:  228   Comments: 0
This was once Es
Title:  This was once Es
Description:  A train from New York passes an F40 on the ready track at South Amboy. Two years prior, this would have been E 8s
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 1:57:18 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4127(F40PH-2) NJT 4128(F40PH-2)
Views:  375   Comments: 0
Waiting
Title:  Waiting
Description:  Where E units(and K 4s) once killed time waiting for GG 1 hauled trains from New York, F40s now rest.
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 2:04:25 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4128(F40PH-2) NJT 4127(F40PH-2)
Views:  283   Comments: 0
Side by side
Title:  Side by side
Description:  The new order-an F40 passes and ex Amtrak E60 west of the South Amboy station
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 2:02:12 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4128(F40PH-2) NJT 960(E60)
Views:  627   Comments: 1
Cab car
Title:  Cab car
Description:  The equipment upgrades also brought the Comet cab cars to the NY&LB., such as this one here trailing on the way to Bay Head.
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 2:17:09 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  356   Comments: 0
Uncoupled
Title:  Uncoupled
Description:  The motor off a New York train has uncouplled and is now pulling forward so diesels can take over. Somehow its not the same without GG 1s and Es.
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/1/2014 4:21:36 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 958(E60)
Views:  491   Comments: 0
Light to the house
Title:  Light to the house
Description:  NJT 958 rolls back through the station to the engine house at South Amboy.
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/1/2014 4:24:06 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 958(E60)
Views:  726   Comments: 0
Arriving from NY
Title:  Arriving from NY
Description:  NJT leads a New York train into the station at South Amboy to do the time honored engine change.
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/1/2014 4:29:50 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 958(E60)
Views:  521   Comments: 0
Reversing
Title:  Reversing
Description:  NJT 963 has pulled down to allow the diesels to couple to the train, and will shortly be rolling back to the engine terminal
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/1/2014 4:33:20 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 963(E60)
Views:  312   Comments: 0
Double headed
Title:  Double headed
Description:  A pair of NJ Transit units have this Hampton train in tow, led by a unit that should be familiar with the route, an original CNJ GP40P.
Photo Date:  3/4/1987  Upload Date: 4/19/2015 4:01:27 AM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4111(GP40P) NJT 4119(F40PH-2)
Views:  473   Comments: 0
Pushing to Newark
Title:  Pushing to Newark
Description:  An eastbound Raritan train gets a push from the now standard F 40 as it heads toward Newark Penn Station and a New York connection.
Photo Date:  3/4/1987  Upload Date: 4/19/2015 4:10:33 AM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4121(F40PH-2)
Views:  231   Comments: 0
EL cab car
Title:  EL cab car
Description:  The EL Comet cars would become the standard for NJ Transit. As newer orders came on line, the cars began to roam systemwide, so it was not a total surprise to find one of the cab cars leading on the ex CNJ. They were a vast improvement over the 1920s era cars and long distance hand me downs that dominated the line in the 70s and early 80s.
Photo Date:  3/4/1987  Upload Date: 4/19/2015 4:16:15 AM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4121(F40PH-2) NJT 4121(F40PH-2)
Views:  653   Comments: 0
CNJ scene
Title:  CNJ scene
Description:  NJT 4115 leads 5 cars west to Raritan on the ex CNJ at Bound Brook. The station can be seen at the right of the photo. The connection where Reading and B&O trains for Philly left CNJ trackage rights into Jersey City is about a mile to the west, and is at this time removed, as that service ended several years prior to this photo. There were once four tracks here on the CNJ.
Photo Date:  7/18/1987  Upload Date: 11/26/2012 12:40:51 AM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4115(F40PH-2CAT)
Views:  321   Comments: 0
Ready for the evening
Title:  Ready for the evening
Description:  An ex Amtrak E 60 is ready to go into Penn Station for a trip to South Amboy later this afternoon. The E 60s were to take over the role of the GG 1s, but never seemed to quite live up to their predecessors repuation.
Photo Date:  3/15/1988  Upload Date: 7/3/2015 4:38:45 AM
Location:  Sunnyside Yard, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 960(E60)
Views:  372   Comments: 0
Patched
Title:  Patched
Description:  Like many NJ Transit units of that era, this E 60 wears the colors of a previous owner, only with a patch paint job showing its true owner. This one will make a trip out to South Amboy later today, just as its predecessors did for decades.
Photo Date:  3/15/1988  Upload Date: 7/3/2015 4:41:06 AM
Location:  Sunnyside Yard, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 961(E60)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
Pushing to Newark
Title:  Pushing to Newark
Description:  The ex CNJ Raritan Line is now all push pull with F40s and Comets, a far dry from less than ten years ago, when it was still possible to see ex CNJ GP40Ps and GP7Ps with 1920s era coaches plying the line, which then went to Phillipsburg on the Delaware River. The new equipment is more comfortable and reliable, but I miss the aroma of brake shoe smoke coming in the open windows. Heres a rebuilt GP 40 type pushing a set of Comets toward Newark Penn Station for a connection to New York.
Photo Date:  8/18/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 3:08:57 PM
Location:  Fanwood, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4140(GP40FH-2)
Views:  316   Comments: 0
ALP on the river
Title:  ALP on the river
Description:  An ALP 44 rolls into South Amboy across the Raritan River. Ten years earlier, this train would have had a GG 1 for power
Photo Date:  8/18/1991  Upload Date: 2/26/2015 4:04:09 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4414(ALP-44)
Views:  239   Comments: 0
Pushing across
Title:  Pushing across
Description:  The trains on the North Jersey Coast didnt seem to follow a pattern in the post GG 1 age. Unlike that era, where the power was almost always on the outbound end going away from New York, now the trains seemed to work either way. Here we have the cab car leading south as the train rolls over the river bridge.
Photo Date:  8/18/1991  Upload Date: 2/26/2015 4:07:28 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  307   Comments: 0
On the CNJ
Title:  On the CNJ
Description:  This eastbound was pushing on the ex CNJ at Westfield, which still has its beautiful stone station. There were once three tracks here. The reduction in the scope of facilities on what used to be busy freight mains is stunning to anyone who remembers the glory days.
Photo Date:  9/7/2003  Upload Date: 6/9/2016 4:14:29 AM
Location:  Westfield, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4212(GP40PH-2B)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
Not dressed up, but ready to go
Title:  Not dressed up, but ready to go
Description:  A group of NJ Transit diesels awaits shipment and paint at the former Erie shops, now Alstom, in Hornell.
Photo Date:  2/27/2005  Upload Date: 11/19/2012 1:10:20 AM
Location:  Hornell, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NJT 4022(PL42-AC) NJT 4019(PL42-AC)
Views:  864   Comments: 0


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