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| Title: |
Kingsland Passengers |
| Description: |
A morning that started sunny and somewhat warm quickly turned cloudy and chilly. Passengers waiting to escape the cold air watch as a 49-year old ex-CNJ GP40P leads their train into the station. The rail in the platform below are some of the remains of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western's Kingsland Wye. At one point these old buried rails routinely saw local freight trains and shop moves from the Kingsland Car Shops run across the platform. Trash trains to North Arlington in the '80s to the early '90s were the last regular run through traffic to polish these old strings of steel. Today the track is mostly forgotten except for occasional MoW equipment storage. |
| Photo Date: |
11/14/2017 Upload Date: 2/22/2018 2:46:11 PM |
| Location: |
Lyndhurst, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4105(GP40PH-2) NJTR 4520(ALP45-DP) |
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340 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Kicking Fresh Powder |
| Description: |
After a light overnight snowfall an eastbound train to Hoboken kicks some fresh powder as it arrives at Rutherford. |
| Photo Date: |
12/14/2017 Upload Date: 2/15/2018 4:58:33 PM |
| Location: |
Rutherford, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4104(GP40PH-2) NJTR 4527(ALP45-DP) |
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355 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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529 Comments: 0 |
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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 |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4108(GP40PH-2) NJTR 4532(ALP45-DP) |
| Views: |
465 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Pressed Into Passenger |
| Description: |
As NJ Transit struggles to comply with the federally mandated Positive Train Control requirements many cab cars have become unavailable as they are retrofitted with the new PTC systems. In order to maintain service locomotives have been acting as "cab cars" on the east ends of train all across the system. Sometimes those engines used are those normally reserved for non-revenue work trains such as seen here. Eastbound Train #1204 is seen here just after crossing the Hackensack River at Upper Hack drawbridge and was lead by one of four GP40-2s on the NJ Transit roster. These engines are usually assigned as work and protect power to outlying terminals such as Dover, Long Branch and Morrisville and have rarely been used to power scheduled revenue passenger trains. |
| Photo Date: |
5/11/2018 Upload Date: 5/11/2018 8:16:47 PM |
| Location: |
Secaucus, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4300(GP40-2) NJTR 4516(ALP45-DP) |
| Views: |
495 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 |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4119(F40PH-2CAT) NJTR 4202(GP40PH-2B) |
| Views: |
1091 Comments: 2 |
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