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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
1/23/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: New Jersey Transit
Model:Altoona GG1Built As:PRR 4881 (GG1)
Serial Number:4350Order No:
Frame Number:GE electrical gearBuilt:2/1939
Notes:blt 2/39 as PRR 4881, scrapped
Other locos with this serial:  NJT 4881(GG1) PC 4881(GG1) NJDOT 4881(GG1) PRR 4881(GG1)
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NJT 4881
Title:  NJT 4881
Description:  NJT 4881 rolls into South Amboy and an engine change to E 8h, passing a couple of local kids as it enters the station.
Photo Date:  5/12/1981  Upload Date: 11/26/2011 11:49:20 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4881(GG1)
Views:  563   Comments: 2
Making the hitch
Title:  Making the hitch
Description:  On weekdays, a gang of carmen were on duty at South Amboy to facilitate the engine change from GG 1s to diesels. Not so on weekends; the train crews were on their own. Here the conductor signals the engineer on the G to ease back to a hitch on this New York bound train.
Photo Date:  11/15/1981  Upload Date: 3/3/2013 4:28:30 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4881(GG1)
Views:  471   Comments: 0
Gs in the motor pit
Title:  Gs in the motor pit
Description:  This was a common scene on weekends at Sunnyside yard.
Photo Date:  5/23/1982  Upload Date: 3/3/2013 4:34:20 AM
Location:  Sunnyside Yard, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NJT 4881(GG1) NJT 4879(GG1) NJT 4880(GG1)
Views:  799   Comments: 0


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