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| Title: |
Builders plate |
| Description: |
NJ DOT had some of its E's rebuilt by the ICG in Paducah KY, including this one, probably 4253. Here's the builders plate. |
| Photo Date: |
7/17/1980 Upload Date: 1/5/2014 3:43:01 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4253(E8A) |
| Views: |
427 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Es to the ready track |
| Description: |
A pair of E8s make their way from the engine house to the pocket track beyond the station to await the next GG 1 powered trains arrival. The paint scheme on the lead unit is just one of several NJT tried during the early 80s, though the nose lifting lugs give this away as an ex Pennsy unit. |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1981 Upload Date: 1/13/2013 4:26:52 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4257(E8A) NJT 4253(E8A) |
| Views: |
810 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Headed to the house |
| Description: |
GG 1 4873 heads for the South Amboy engine house after cutting off its train in favor of a pair of Es, which have taken charge and are seen at left. . |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1981 Upload Date: 1/13/2013 3:46:46 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4873(GG1) NJT 4253(E8A) |
| Views: |
625 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Es to Bay Head |
| Description: |
This Pennsy side train has made the swap from GG 1s and is now ready to go down the Jersey shore to Bay Head on the NY&LB. |
| Photo Date: |
4/27/1981 Upload Date: 1/15/2012 11:23:04 PM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4253(E8A) |
| Views: |
543 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Past the tower |
| Description: |
A Bay Head train passes BANK tower in Red Bank, which controls the connection from the NY&LB to the Southern Secondary. We're looking from along the ex CNJ line, the northbound main of which has been cut short of the junction. |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/1981 Upload Date: 3/3/2013 4:53:54 AM |
| Location: |
Red Bank, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NJT 4334(E8A) NJT 4257(E8A) |
| Views: |
885 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
NJ Transit 4332 |
| Description: |
A pair of E units led by ex Southern E8 prepares to head to Bay Heod on the NY&LB |
| Photo Date: |
4/6/1981 Upload Date: 3/6/2011 3:16:43 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4332(E8A) NJT 4258(E8A) |
| Views: |
615 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
E units on the move |
| Description: |
South Amboy was the place to go for E unit action in the 80s. Here a Bay Head train rolls out past a set waiting for a forthcoming New York originated train on the Pennsy side. |
| Photo Date: |
4/6/1981 Upload Date: 6/7/2014 2:35:11 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4285(E8A) NJT 4332(E8A) NJT 4258(E8A) |
| Views: |
710 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
E unit heaven |
| Description: |
Three sets of E8s wait for trains to arrive from New York to continue their trip down the shore, one of which is approaching in the distance. The first set has a recently acquired ex Southern unit from the Crescent. |
| Photo Date: |
4/6/1981 Upload Date: 6/7/2014 2:39:29 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4332(E8A) NJT 4258(E8A) NJT 4285(E8A) |
| Views: |
607 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Ex Southern |
| Description: |
When Amtrak took over the Crescent, Southern sold the Es to NJ Transit, where they supplemented the Es already in service there, most of them ex PRR units. Most of them did not get repainted, except for a patch over the Southern markings. Heres one on the ready track waiting for a New York train. |
| Photo Date: |
4/6/1981 Upload Date: 6/7/2014 2:43:44 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4332(E8A) NJT 4258(E8A) |
| Views: |
639 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Ready to roll |
| Description: |
The Es have taken over and are ready to go on to Bay Head. |
| Photo Date: |
5/18/1981 Upload Date: 1/30/2013 12:41:29 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4267(E8A) NJT 4330(E8A) |
| Views: |
515 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Es and a familiar sign |
| Description: |
A pair of E 8s, repainted in the scheme on ELs U34s, which NJDOT used for a few years til NJ Transit took over and implemented the disco scheme, lead a stainless coach that has the sign of a previous era-the PC herald. Four years after Conrail, there were still a lot of cars so adorned. |
| Photo Date: |
7/8/1980 Upload Date: 12/12/2016 5:23:48 AM |
| Location: |
Asbury Park, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJDOT 4272(E8A) NJDOT 4320(E8A) |
| Views: |
539 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
OIBU with a twist |
| Description: |
OIBU has an E unit behind the road power today. Unlike the EL, which used them in freight service, though mostly on the west end of the railroad, this one is in tow to a scrap dealer. |
| Photo Date: |
5/8/1992 Upload Date: 2/9/2015 2:46:49 AM |
| Location: |
Barton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6583(C30-7A) CR 6774(SD50) NJT 4285(E8A) |
| Views: |
506 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
OIBU and an E |
| Description: |
OIBU rolls under the NY 427 overpass with an ex NJT E8 trailing. |
| Photo Date: |
5/8/1992 Upload Date: 2/11/2015 4:07:10 AM |
| Location: |
Chemung, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 6583(C30-7A) CR 6774(SD50) NJT 4285(E8A) |
| Views: |
587 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Lite power |
| Description: |
A set of E8s heads for the pocket track at South Amboy in anticipation of the next GG 1 powered train. In yet another variation, this unit has the outline of the state of New Jersey on the nose. |
| Photo Date: |
4/27/1981 Upload Date: 1/13/2013 4:34:15 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4305(E8A) |
| Views: |
460 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Lite power parade |
| Description: |
Two sets of lite power move through the station to the pocket track where they will wait for trains arriving from New York. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1983 Upload Date: 11/19/2013 1:21:51 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4305(E8A) NJT 4326(E8A) NJT 4108(GP40P) NJT 4111(GP40P) |
| Views: |
829 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
More lite power |
| Description: |
The steam generator end of a GP40P passes by on its way to the pocket track. There was still a fair amount of steam heated equipment in NJ Transit at this time, and these boilers got good use. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1983 Upload Date: 11/19/2013 1:55:50 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4111(GP40P) NJT 4108(GP40P) NJT 4326(E8A) NJT 4305(E8A) |
| Views: |
1026 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Classic nose |
| Description: |
The nose of E8 4305 in the EL inspired scheme NJ Transit used in its early days. The nose lifting rings are a giveaway that this was an ex PRR unit. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1983 Upload Date: 11/20/2013 12:19:43 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4305(E8A) |
| Views: |
334 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Lite Es |
| Description: |
A pair of E8s moves to the pocket track to wait for a train from New York. NJT 4326 shows the second variation of the "disco" scheme to grace the E's, platinum must with stripes. It's a lot less garish than the white that they first tried. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1983 Upload Date: 11/20/2013 12:24:10 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4326(E8A) NJT 4305(E8A) |
| Views: |
684 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Peek a boo |
| Description: |
E 8 4305 has tied onto its train and is peeking past the former Raritan River RR office building. It will shortly be on its way to Bay Head |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1983 Upload Date: 11/20/2013 12:27:12 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4305(E8A) |
| Views: |
328 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Power change |
| Description: |
After the GG 1s were retired in 1983, NJ Transit acquired some second hand Amtrak E 60s to cover their North Jersey Coast trains on the NY&LB as far as South Amboy. Here we see the swap complete, and the E 60 headed to the yard. Somehow, its just not the same!! |
| Photo Date: |
9/12/1983 Upload Date: 11/6/2011 2:04:23 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4305(E8A) NJT 960(E60) |
| Views: |
1011 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Scenic 309 and a surprise |
| Description: |
Train 309 rolls west along the Susquehanna behind two units that would later get the "golden rodent" and become fixtures on the short lived 416 and 417 trains from Saratoga to the Bronx. Today they are headed to Buffalo with none other but an ex PC E 8 tucked in behind. |
| Photo Date: |
6/14/1991 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:52:36 AM |
| Location: |
Campville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5698(SD40-2) CP 5690(SD40-2) PC 4321(E8A) |
| Views: |
1222 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
CP and PC |
| Description: |
Confusing?? Well, the PC unit is a stark contrast to the CP units!! This PC E 8 was on its way to a buyer when I caught it on 309 at Owego. |
| Photo Date: |
6/14/1991 Upload Date: 3/11/2015 2:36:55 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 5698(SD40-2) CP 5690(SD40-2) PC 4321(E8A) |
| Views: |
1061 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NJT 4323 |
| Description: |
NJT 4323, an E8 in the new "disco" scheme, heads for Bay Head. |
| Photo Date: |
6/18/1981 Upload Date: 3/6/2011 1:51:46 AM |
| Location: |
Asbury Park, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4323(E8A) |
| Views: |
902 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Es head for the shore |
| Description: |
A pair of NJ Transit E8s, having just taken over from a GG 1, blast out of South Amboy for Bay Head. Note the ex Southern E's in the pocket track at left rear. |
| Photo Date: |
7/19/1983 Upload Date: 10/22/2011 2:54:08 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4334(E8A) NJT 4323(E8A) |
| Views: |
818 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Es headed for the shore |
| Description: |
A pair of E8s leads a train toward Bay Head after making taking over from a GG 1. Note the steam coming from between the engines, a now long gone feature of American railroading, still common in New Jersey in the 1980's. |
| Photo Date: |
4/27/1981 Upload Date: 1/13/2013 4:38:00 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4328(E8A) |
| Views: |
326 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Power swap |
| Description: |
The time honored tradition of changing engines from electric to steam continued in the diesel era, first with GG 1s to Pennsy E 7s and E 8s, and now from GG 1s-still-to former Southern E 8s. |
| Photo Date: |
4/6/1981 Upload Date: 5/29/2011 2:42:47 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4875(GG1) NJT 4332(E8A) |
| Views: |
991 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
The Bay Head Crescent |
| Description: |
Well, why not?? They ran the Bay Head Empire Builder with ex BN and GN cars that had come off the real Empire Builder, now there were ex Southern Es made excess by Amtrak taking over Southerns long distance train. Here is one waiting to go at South Amboy. |
| Photo Date: |
4/27/1981 Upload Date: 1/13/2013 4:42:24 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4332(E8A) |
| Views: |
458 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Pretty faces |
| Description: |
GG 1 4875 has cut off its train and pulled down past the switch to the pocket track where the Es wait for trains to arrive, passing the power that will take its train to Bay Head, oneof which is an ex Southern unit recently off the Crescent. Note the CNJ style signals. |
| Photo Date: |
5/18/1981 Upload Date: 1/30/2013 12:37:03 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Signal |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4875(GG1) NJT 4333(E8A) |
| Views: |
601 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SVRHS display |
| Description: |
The Susquehanna Valley NRHS had some equipment on display bt the ex DLW station for a number of years. This ex Southern E 8 was the feature, but more local items included several Erie cars and EL caboose 316. The equipment was moved to Elmira when the new baseball stadium was built in 1992 on the site of the former DLW freight house. The station stub tracks, once used for set out sleepers and mail, were removed. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1988 Upload Date: 9/5/2015 3:47:27 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Station |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4334(E8A) |
| Views: |
747 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Restoration candidate |
| Description: |
NJT 4334, a former Southern E 8, sits at the Susquehanna Valley RHS display on the set out tracks at the Binghamton DLW station. The original plan was to!restore the unit to Erie or EL paint, with the hope of eventually getting it into running condition. As happens all too often, funding and available/hands fell short. The engine was eventually moved to Elmira, but not til after the new ballfield was built on the site of the DLW freight house, leaving the equipment on the set out tracks land
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| Photo Date: |
10/21/1990 Upload Date: 2/1/2016 4:44:25 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4334(E8A) |
| Views: |
510 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Commuter power |
| Description: |
California Av yard had a long line of power. Some or all of these units may have been out of service by this time as the F40s had started to take over the CNW commuter trains by this point |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1982 Upload Date: 3/3/2013 2:51:25 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 412(F7A) CNW 5024B(E8A) |
| Views: |
507 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
E units |
| Description: |
Found some E units in what appeared to be the dead line at California Av. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1982 Upload Date: 3/3/2013 3:00:41 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 5024B(E8A) CNW 5031A(E8A) |
| Views: |
508 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rolling in |
| Description: |
A westbound commuter train roll into Park Ridge behind one of those hard to identify E units. This was my first trip to Chicago, and early in my railfan photo career. I was still working with a 110 instamatic most of the time(hey, ya gotta start somewhere) and some of the shots are not exactly worthy of JJ Young, but still some interesting stuff that is outweighed by the so so technical quality. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1978 Upload Date: 11/19/2016 2:16:59 AM |
| Location: |
Park Ridge, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 5025A(E8A) |
| Views: |
179 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Peek a boo |
| Description: |
A soon to be retired E8 pokes its nose out of the train shed at Northwestern Station |
| Photo Date: |
8/25/1982 Upload Date: 3/11/2013 12:44:15 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 5025A(E8A) |
| Views: |
212 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Old and battered |
| Description: |
An old, unrenumbered E unit leads a commuter train out of Northwestern Station. |
| Photo Date: |
8/26/1982 Upload Date: 3/18/2013 1:00:54 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 5026A(E8A) |
| Views: |
426 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Hard to catch |
| Description: |
But it wasnt easy!! In October 1987, Western NY NRHS ran a couple of circle trips from Buffalo through Rochester on the CR Chicago Line, down to Corning on the Corning Secondary, then back to Buffalo on the Southern Tier. I caught the Oct 17 trip out of Corning, and chased down the Canisteo River. The Es did what they do best-about 70 MPH-and I was doing 75 along River Rd from Addison, along with three other lunatics. The only thing that saved us is that the police presence down there was almost nil at the time-in 20 years of running that road, I think I saw a sheriffs car one time. We were cooking. I finally got ahead of the train at Carson, yielding this shot. |
| Photo Date: |
10/17/1987 Upload Date: 6/9/2015 3:17:45 AM |
| Location: |
Canisteo, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 5898(E8A) PRR 5806(E8A) |
| Views: |
791 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
E units |
| Description: |
Among the equipment seen during the RCTHS day was this PRR E 8 at South Hamburg. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1991 Upload Date: 3/11/2015 2:21:43 PM |
| Location: |
South Hamburg, PA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 5898(E8A) |
| Views: |
419 Comments: 0 |
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