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| Title: |
New power |
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A weekend trip to New York found me passing through Port Jervis. There I found this rebuilt GP 40 waiting for Mondays rush hour. The era of U34s was closing, and "new" power was coming on line as NJ Transit and Metro North, who funded the operation west of Suffern, upgraded their power from the hand me downs of the previous decade. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1989 Upload Date: 10/31/2015 3:59:59 AM |
| Location: |
Port Jervis, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4140(GP40FH-2) |
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| Title: |
Old and new order |
| Description: |
The GP 40 rebuild at left is the wave of the future, taking over from the now classic U34CH at right, in service for 17 years at this point, and reaching the end of its service life, though that design will hold on for a few more years. The old Erie coal dock is visible above the GP40, almost 40 years after the last steam ran here. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1989 Upload Date: 10/31/2015 4:03:40 AM |
| Location: |
Port Jervis, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4157(U34CH) NJT 4140(GP40FH-2) |
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572 Comments: 0 |
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| 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) |
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359 Comments: 0 |
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