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| Title: |
Short layover |
| Description: |
This Main Line train on the Erie side has completed its run to Suffern, and is now tat Hillburn waiting for time to roll back into Suffern and get on its way back to Hoboken. The renumbering into Conrails passenger block is underway; this unit is now CR 4153, having given up its EL number of 3353. The NY Thruway passes overhead. The building under the bridge, above the 4th car, is SF tower, which controls the entrance to the yard here, as well as the junction to the Pascack Valley Line, which still had freight customers on it at the time, though passenger trains terminated at Spring Valley. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1978 Upload Date: 12/6/2016 4:06:24 AM |
| Location: |
Suffern, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJDOT 4153(U34CH) |
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438 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Leading the way |
| Description: |
Comet I cab car 5112, one of the original cars financed by New Jersey in 1971, leads an eastbound Main Line train into Suffern as it starts its run to Hoboken. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1978 Upload Date: 12/6/2016 4:14:48 AM |
| Location: |
Suffern, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
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267 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Elegance in appliances |
| Description: |
I have to keep reminding myself, in todays age of steel tubes, that there once was a certain elegance to industrial design. This number board on a DLW MU may not be an important detail, but it appears an effort was made to make it look attractive while functional. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1978 Upload Date: 12/7/2016 3:36:38 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
EL 3204(Electric M.U.) |
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173 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Seeing the light |
| Description: |
The sun angle is getting where its low enough in the right direction to light up trains in the shed. An ancient Lackawanna MU catches the sun as it waits for departure time. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1978 Upload Date: 12/6/2016 5:16:19 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
EL 3204(Electric M.U.) |
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230 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Looking like EL |
| Description: |
The first few years of the Conrail era were transitional as ownership of equipment at facilities was in flux. NJDOT had taken title to some of the rail lines, and most of the equipment, which Conrail then ran under contract, until NJ Transit was created as an operating entity. In the meantime, some things continued as they always had, though some would be modified. One of those was the renumbering of all passenger power into the CR numbering system, which largely followed the PC plan, with all passenger engines numbered in the 4000-4399 series, though with gaps. It took a few years for ELs power to get redone, and for a few years, it was as if nothing had changed. Heres evidence of that, as we see EL 3352, now owned by NJDOT, waiting to head west from Hoboken on a late July afternoon. Interestingly, the EL herald on the nose looks a lot better than the stick on NJDOT decal midway down the long hood. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1978 Upload Date: 12/7/2016 3:43:25 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
EL 3352(U34CH) |
| Views: |
464 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Transition!! |
| Description: |
With apolpogies to Zero Mostel. As mentioned elsewhere in this group, the predecessor roads power was moved into the CR numbering system. Heres a couple of units showing that process. NJDOT 4169, formerly EL 3369, leads a train out of the shed while 3354, still wearing its EL colors and number, is in the background. The renumberings and ownership change didnt stop CR, who ran the trains under contract, from doing the same thing EL had done, much to New Jerseys chagrin. Theyd borrow a set of power to run a freight to Binghamton or Buffalo over a weekend, hoping they got it back to Suffern or Port Jervis in time for Mondays rush. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1978 Upload Date: 12/7/2016 3:50:14 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJDOT 4169(U34CH) EL 3354(U34CH) |
| Views: |
323 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Looking west |
| Description: |
EL 3366 leads a train out of the train shed, into the maze of puzzle switches as it heads for West End. To the right of the train is Hoboken Terminal Tower, a crazy place if there ever was one. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1978 Upload Date: 12/7/2016 3:55:29 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
EL 3366(U34CH) |
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249 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Just like before |
| Description: |
A pair of U 34s, still in their EL dress, confer before heading out to their commuter runs. I was fortunate to get to Hoboken to see it before everything was renumbered into CRs plan. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1978 Upload Date: 12/7/2016 4:00:18 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
EL 3366(U34CH) EL 3373(U34CH) |
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493 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Port Jervis train |
| Description: |
While most of the trains on the ELs Erie side ran to Suffern, just over the state line in NY, there were still several that ran the 87 miles to Port Jervis, at that time via the Main Line through Goshen and Chester. The move to the Graham Line was still five years in the future at uhe time of the photo. Because the run to PO had 57 miles in New York, MTA funded some of the equipment in that pool, including this set of coaches, hence the much different appearance from the Comet Is used in New Jersey. These were built to the specs for the Silverliners, but without the electrical equipment. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1978 Upload Date: 12/7/2016 4:39:57 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
EL 3373(U34CH) |
| Views: |
320 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Familiar face |
| Description: |
There were a couple of SW 9s that worked at Hoboken during the EL years. Both stayed on after CR startup, and on into NJ Transit. In 1978, this one was still in its old owners colors, thought the name had been painted out. They could have left the number, which was unchanged, in its original typeface. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1978 Upload Date: 12/6/2016 4:36:05 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
EL 438(SW9) |
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435 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Keeping the faith |
| Description: |
The EL herald on this coach will last a lot longer than the pure look on the power. Some of these cars went well into the 80s with their EL markings intact. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1978 Upload Date: 12/7/2016 5:01:30 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
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163 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
DLW interior |
| Description: |
Heres the interior of an ex DLW MU car as it looked in the late 70s. |
| Photo Date: |
7/17/1978 Upload Date: 9/5/2012 11:37:10 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
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429 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Not quite what I expected |
| Description: |
As I rode into Chicago on the Broadway-still on an all Pennsy route then-I got a look at the 14th St coach yard, where there was this surprise, a set of EL coaches. These had come off the Cleveland-Youngstown commuter train, which had come off in January 1977. Conrail was still running commuter trains in several places, one of them the ex PRR train out to Valparaiso, which these cars sometimes worked. In Jersey by this date, all the locomotive hauled trains had been converted to push pull, so these were the last EL through line cars to run on commuter trains. Too bad there wasnt a train out to Crown Point or so. These would have looked nice behind an E unit rolling through Griffith. Note the ex PRR P 70s at right, which were the standard equipment on the Valpo train. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1978 Upload Date: 11/16/2016 4:59:42 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Passenger |
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312 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
All in one |
| Description: |
I captured both facilities at Denville in this shot. The station, looking worse for wear, is in the foreground. The tower, which controls the junction here of the Morristown Line, which swings off to the right out of sight, and the Boonton Line, seen going straight off into the distance, is in the rear. There was virtually no freight on this part of the railroad by this time, unlike a few years earlier, when the Boonton Line was quite busy with traffic to and from Scranton and the west. Now it only hosted a couple of locals and commuter trains. |
| Photo Date: |
1/11/1979 Upload Date: 12/11/2016 5:14:32 AM |
| Location: |
Denville, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Track |
| Locomotives: |
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179 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Like its 1954 |
| Description: |
The DLW had two lines from Hoboken to Denville, the Boonton Line, and the electrified Morristown Line. They met here at a junction guarded by a tower, though the story of the Boonton Line is complicated, as the line as it exists now was a combination of the ex DLW and Erie Greenwood Lake branch that was cobbled together to facilitate building I 80 in the Paterson area. Here it is in 1979, looking much like it did in 1954, 25 years earlier. The only real difference is the parking lot and the cars. The trains, for the most part, look the same now as then. |
| Photo Date: |
1/11/1979 Upload Date: 12/6/2016 4:19:54 AM |
| Location: |
Denville, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station |
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267 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Dover train |
| Description: |
An eastbound train headed for Hoboken approaches the Denville station as it rolls in from Dover. Could be 1962 |
| Photo Date: |
2/22/1979 Upload Date: 1/5/2014 4:08:47 AM |
| Location: |
Denville, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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372 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
In from the cold |
| Description: |
Im waiting on a very cold platform at the DLW station in Newark. It was a much smaller facility than its PRR cousin, about a mile away from downtown. While its passenger loadings for the DLW may have been substantial, they paled in comparison to the Pennsys. But then, more people want to go to Philly, Baltimore and DC than Scranton and Binghamton!! A 50 year old set of MUs approaches, and Ill soon be soaking up the warmth inside. |
| Photo Date: |
3/13/1979 Upload Date: 12/11/2016 5:23:28 AM |
| Location: |
Newark, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
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155 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sign of the times |
| Description: |
From a long time ago. This sign notes a railroad that was leased by the Erie in the 19th century, and has survived three mergers as the Erie became EL, then Conrail, and now NJ Transit, which calls it the Pascack Valley Line. Note the crossing guard tower in the background. |
| Photo Date: |
4/17/1979 Upload Date: 12/11/2016 5:32:48 AM |
| Location: |
Hackensack, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station |
| Locomotives: |
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164 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Timeless scene |
| Description: |
It was actually taken in 1979, but it could be any time after 1960. The EL ticket windows at Hoboken kept this appearance til the 1980's. It should have been forever. |
| Photo Date: |
7/19/1979 Upload Date: 1/5/2014 4:08:45 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
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231 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
EL 4601 |
| Description: |
The Erie Lackawanna lines out of Hoboken were a time warp, although elsewhere in New Jersey not much had changed either. What made the EL trains special was that, except for some of the U34's, almost nothing had been altered from its EL appearance, where on the PC and CNJ lines there was a lot of painting out of predecessor road names. The trains and stations would retain their flavor til NJ Transit updated the DLW lines a few years later and changed the power distribution system, rendering these Edison era trains obsolete. |
| Photo Date: |
11/13/1979 Upload Date: 12/29/2013 4:11:08 AM |
| Location: |
Gladstone, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
EL 4601(Electric M.U.) |
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553 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Like it never even happened |
| Description: |
A train of ex DLW MU's sits at the end of the line in Gladstone, looking for all the world like EL was going on forever. |
| Photo Date: |
11/13/1979 Upload Date: 12/29/2013 4:11:10 AM |
| Location: |
Gladstone, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
EL 4601(Electric M.U.) |
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455 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pushing on through |
| Description: |
A set of Comets is in push mode as it stops at Glen Rock. The U34 on the rear will shortly be pushing the train closer to a date with the bumping post at Hoboken. An irony of the town name here is that there is a town in New York, up on the Buffalo Sub, called Rock Glen, just north(railroad west) of Silver Springs. |
| Photo Date: |
7/8/1980 Upload Date: 12/11/2016 5:28:37 AM |
| Location: |
Glen Rock, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
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196 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Edison era MUs |
| Description: |
A train of Edison era MU electrics still lettered for Erie Lackawanna waits out the Labor Day weekend. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1981 Upload Date: 11/6/2011 1:51:55 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
EL 4317(Electric M.U.) |
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467 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Original equipment!! |
| Description: |
A sign that must date from 1930 is still in place on the fence at Summit NJ in 1981. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1981 Upload Date: 11/6/2011 1:54:35 AM |
| Location: |
Summit, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station |
| Locomotives: |
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438 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
New scheme |
| Description: |
NJ Transit tried a "traction orange" paint job on some of the DLW MUs. It didnt get very far, most likely due to budget issues. Just as well-the Pullman green the fleet spent most of its life in was just fine. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1981 Upload Date: 6/30/2014 2:42:58 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
EL 3205(Electric M.U.) |
| Views: |
636 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
EL MUs |
| Description: |
Ex EL 1930s era MU cars served on the ex DLW lines out of Hoboken til the mid 1980s. Here we see a set ready to go at Hoboken. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1981 Upload Date: 2/17/2013 2:33:50 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
EL 4347(Electric M.U.) |
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284 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
DLW memories |
| Description: |
A Hoboken bound train arrives at Summit NJ. The Edison era cars from the original electrification are still in service in this 1981 scene. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1981 Upload Date: 5/29/2011 2:39:32 AM |
| Location: |
Summit, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
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316 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting to go |
| Description: |
An ex EL U34CH waits its turn out of the station in Hoboken. Note the activity around the station. On a nearby track is U34CH 4167 in the then new "disco"scheme, and a little farther over are some of the DLW MUs that got the orange treatment. Off in the distance is one of the former EL SW 9s that switched the terminal for years. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1981 Upload Date: 8/8/2012 1:37:56 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4161(U34CH) NJT 4167(U34CH) |
| Views: |
632 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
New paint |
| Description: |
By the early 80s, New Jersey was starting to get a cohesive look to their rail operations, which up til then had been a hodge podge of predecessor equipment and operations run by Conrail under contract to NJDOT. Once an agreement was worked out for New Jersey to run them directly, they started to work on a single image. One of the features of that image was this paint scheme, commonly known as the "disco" scheme for its bright stripes. It was not well received by fans, who preferred something more like youd see on a real railroad, and not a bus. Their protestations were to no avail, as NJ Transit is still using a modification of it today. Meanwhile, heres an ex EL U34 in disco dress leaving Hoboken. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1981 Upload Date: 12/11/2016 5:39:08 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4167(U34CH) |
| Views: |
343 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Last unit |
| Description: |
The highest numbered U34CH actually was not part of the original order. This unit was a CNW U30C that was rebuilt as a U34 after the EL units were delivered. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1981 Upload Date: 2/17/2013 2:46:29 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4183(U34CH) |
| Views: |
454 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Classic station scene, untouched years after the ELs demise |
| Description: |
The ticket windows at the Hoboken Terminal retained the EL atmosphere in 1982. Miss Phoebe would be proud. |
| Photo Date: |
12/16/1981 Upload Date: 8/20/2011 1:32:20 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
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| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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317 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
U34CH |
| Description: |
One of the former EL U34CHs pushes a weekend Morristown Line train out of Harrison on the former DLW. |
| Photo Date: |
1/30/1982 Upload Date: 3/3/2013 4:41:17 AM |
| Location: |
Harrison, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4163(U34CH) |
| Views: |
365 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
End of the line |
| Description: |
The station at Gladstone, on the branch of the same name, originally the Passaic and Delaware, is a typical DLW structure, with the typical roof line and overhangs. Im there on a rainy January day along with a set of DLW MUs that has been coming there for over 50 years. |
| Photo Date: |
1/31/1982 Upload Date: 12/11/2016 5:18:05 AM |
| Location: |
Gladstone, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
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133 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NJT 4158 |
| Description: |
NJT, former EL U34CH 4158 waits for departure time at Hoboken |
| Photo Date: |
7/19/1983 Upload Date: 11/6/2013 1:31:18 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4158(U34CH) |
| Views: |
326 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NJT 4168 |
| Description: |
NJT 4168 waits to head for the suburbs |
| Photo Date: |
7/19/1983 Upload Date: 11/6/2013 2:14:35 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4168(U34CH) |
| Views: |
277 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NJT 4168 and the towers |
| Description: |
NJT 4168 leads an Erie side train past the old and new towers at Hoboken. On the left is the still abuilding new terminal tower that will go into service when the re-electrification project is complete in a year or so. To the right is the DLW Hoboken Terminal tower, still soldiering on after 75 years. |
| Photo Date: |
7/19/1983 Upload Date: 11/6/2013 1:36:54 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4168(U34CH) |
| Views: |
325 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ready to go |
| Description: |
NJT 4172 ready to depart Hoboken for points west |
| Photo Date: |
7/19/1983 Upload Date: 11/6/2013 1:39:41 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4172(U34CH) |
| Views: |
481 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Two to go |
| Description: |
A pair of U34CHs is ready to head out of Hoboken Terminal |
| Photo Date: |
7/19/1983 Upload Date: 11/6/2013 1:44:31 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4172(U34CH) NJT 4168(U34CH) |
| Views: |
381 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
In the shed |
| Description: |
NJT 4178 in the new "disco" scheme sits under the Bush train shed at Hoboken. |
| Photo Date: |
7/19/1983 Upload Date: 11/6/2013 1:47:23 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4178(U34CH) |
| Views: |
276 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Out in the open |
| Description: |
NJT 4178 has left the train shed and heads for the tunnels and the suburbs in the new NJT scheme |
| Photo Date: |
7/19/1983 Upload Date: 11/6/2013 1:49:45 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4178(U34CH) |
| Views: |
290 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NJt 4179 |
| Description: |
NJT 4179 sits just outside the Hoboken train shed as it waits for time. |
| Photo Date: |
7/19/1983 Upload Date: 11/6/2013 1:51:51 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4179(U34CH) |
| Views: |
294 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NJT 4182 |
| Description: |
Ex EL U34CH 4182 waits to depart |
| Photo Date: |
7/19/1983 Upload Date: 11/6/2013 1:54:29 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4182(U34CH) NJT 4158(U34CH) |
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| Title: |
U 34s await the afternoon rush |
| Description: |
Several U34CH units ready for the afternoon commuter hour%at the former DLW station in Hoboken |
| Photo Date: |
8/16/1983 Upload Date: 8/20/2011 1:29:29 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4179(U34CH) NJT 4168(U34CH) |
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| Title: |
NJ Transit 4178 |
| Description: |
Former EL U34CH at Hoboken |
| Photo Date: |
8/16/1983 Upload Date: 3/6/2011 3:13:52 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4178(U34CH) |
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339 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
DLW MU combine |
| Description: |
The cars on the Hoboken based runs were primarily coaches, most dating from the 1930 electrification. There were also some other cars that were not as well known, among them several parlors and at least one of these combines. This one looks like it has been configured as an inspection car, judging by the light package. Even so, it will be out of service in a year or so when these lines convert to AC power. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1983 Upload Date: 11/25/2013 10:20:01 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
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| Title: |
EL station switcher |
| Description: |
Erie Lackawanna had several SW 9s that switched the Hoboken terminal. These units stayed on in that duty after EL went into Conrail and eventually wound up on NJ Transit. They got repainted into the ELs U34 scheme, but not til after EL was long gone. All youd need are some EL diamonds and spell out "Erie Lackawanna" on the hood, and youd have the perfect complement to the EL U34CH fleet. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1983 Upload Date: 11/25/2013 10:09:37 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 436(SW9) |
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488 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Meanwhile the trains roll on |
| Description: |
While festival goers were enjoying the equipment displays and food in the terminal, the regular service trains continued, here behind a U34CH, looking like it was just another day on the EL. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1983 Upload Date: 11/25/2013 10:22:58 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4161(U34CH) |
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246 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Suffern train |
| Description: |
An ex Erie Main Line train to Suffern is among the regular service trains working the day of the Hoboken Festical. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1983 Upload Date: 11/25/2013 10:45:28 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4168(U34CH) |
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237 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Erie Lackawanna lives |
| Description: |
I have occasionally mentioned that in the early days of Conrail, and even in the NJ Transit era, it was possible to get the flavor of the predecessor roads while on their lines. Case in point: Hoboken. Here we see a train bound for the Main Line to Suffern, behind power and cars that could, except for the diamond herald on the power(many of the cars still carried them) be an EL train. In the background is a DLW MU car, still lettered EL, and, lo and behold, and ex Erie Stilwell, albeit painted CR blue and probably an office, or in MOW service, a task it most likely ended its EL career doing. Hoboken, and to some extent the entire ex EL operation, was a time machine. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1983 Upload Date: 11/25/2013 10:34:05 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4169(U34CH) |
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248 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
U34 |
| Description: |
A U34CH now painted for NJ Transit during the Hoboken Festival |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1983 Upload Date: 11/23/2013 1:30:17 AM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4176(U34CH) |
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271 Comments: 0 |
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