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Formal wear??
Title:  Formal wear??
Description:  Not exactly. This NJ Transit U34, a former EL unit, is dressed a little better than most of the fleet in its blue and gray, but not quite ready for a formal dinner at the town that invented it. The Tuxedo station is now their police station.
Photo Date:  10/15/1985  Upload Date: 10/11/2014 3:05:23 AM
Location:  Tuxedo, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4151(U34CH)
Views:  353   Comments: 0
Pushing down for a pick up
Title:  Pushing down for a pick up
Description:  This Hoboken bound train is pushing out of the yard at Suffern, and will shortly be doing its station work before heading for Hoboken. Even with the number in a Conrail style typeface, it's good to see a U34 in its original scheme.
Photo Date:  10/17/1987  Upload Date: 5/30/2015 3:42:29 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4151(U34CH)
Views:  451   Comments: 0
Action on the EL
Title:  Action on the EL
Description:  A U34CH, by then on its last legs, leads a Suffern bound train into the Glen Rock station
Photo Date:  5/7/1987  Upload Date: 11/26/2012 12:42:51 AM
Location:  Glen Rock, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4153(U34CH)
Views:  458   Comments: 0
Weekend lineup
Title:  Weekend lineup
Description:  A trio of U34CHs is lined up on the west end of the Port Jervis yard waiting for Monday. They had an unusual visitor today in NKP 765, which was in town on an NRHS excursion.
Photo Date:  7/30/1988  Upload Date: 9/1/2015 4:01:44 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NJT 4168(U34CH) NJT 4162(U34CH) NJT 4153(U34CH)
Views:  437   Comments: 0
NKP 765 poses with some classic diesels
Title:  NKP 765 poses with some classic diesels
Description:  NKP 765 ran several trips during the 1988 NRHS convention in New Jersey. One of them was to Port Jervis on the old Erie. Here the engine sits with some unusual diesels, former EL U34CHs, now in the employ of NJ Transit
Photo Date:  7/30/1988  Upload Date: 11/13/2011 1:47:13 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NKP 765(2-8-4) NJT 4168(U34CH) NJT 4162(U34CH) NJT 4153(U34CH)
Views:  1240   Comments: 1
Competition
Title:  Competition
Description:  A U34 led train rolls past the Arden station, long closed by this time and now a post office, alongside the NY Thruway. Id rather be on the train!!
Photo Date:  7/22/1986  Upload Date: 12/6/2014 2:46:07 AM
Location:  Arden, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4154(U34CH)
Views:  482   Comments: 0
Still looking good
Title:  Still looking good
Description:  Relettered for NJ Transit, but still in their EL paint, this pair of U34CHs still looks elegant as they wait out the weekend at Port Jervis
Photo Date:  3/5/1988  Upload Date: 7/3/2015 4:26:46 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  NJT 4155(U34CH) NJT 4165(U34CH)
Views:  459   Comments: 0
Going Home
Title:  Going Home
Description:  A NJ Transit train led by the usual U34, still running on its EL home, arrives at Suffern as the evening rush gets underway. Look to the left of the engine. Anyone remember Grand Union??
Photo Date:  7/22/1986  Upload Date: 12/6/2014 2:51:45 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4156(U34CH)
Views:  394   Comments: 2
Old and new order
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)
Views:  575   Comments: 0
Looking like the old days
Title:  Looking like the old days
Description:  Except for lacking an EL herald, this U34 looks just like it did when it ran for EL. Fortunately, the disco scheme has not caught up to it.
Photo Date:  7/9/1989  Upload Date: 10/31/2015 4:11:15 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  NJT 4157(U34CH)
Views:  241   Comments: 1
NJT 4158
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:  368   Comments: 0
NJT 4182
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
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4182(U34CH) NJT 4158(U34CH)
Views:  472   Comments: 0
Over the bridge
Title:  Over the bridge
Description:  One spot I liked but didnt get there nearly often enough was this bridge on the old Erie just north of Suffern. Heres a Port Jervis train behind one the U34s EL acquired for this run coming off the span and headed for Tuxedo. That's NY 59 just to the right of the tracks on the road bridge.
Photo Date:  4/8/1986  Upload Date: 11/19/2014 2:37:08 PM
Location:  Hillburn, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4158(U34CH)
Views:  360   Comments: 0
Dwarfed
Title:  Dwarfed
Description:  A Port Jervis train crosses the massive Moodna Viaduct on what was once Eries freight bypass(around Goshen and Middletown) Graham Line. It will shortly arrive at the newly built Salisbury Mills station, at the west end of the viaduct.
Photo Date:  4/8/1986  Upload Date: 11/19/2014 2:40:21 PM
Location:  Salisbury Mills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4158(U34CH)
Views:  330   Comments: 0
U34 disco
Title:  U34 disco
Description:  Most of the U34s eventually got the NJ Transit "disco" scheme, to my mind a real comedown from the elegany adaptation of the EL paint diagram they wore as delivered. This one is westbound at Geln Rock
Photo Date:  5/7/1987  Upload Date: 11/26/2012 12:45:30 AM
Location:  Glen Rock, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4159(U34CH)
Views:  502   Comments: 0
Oddball
Title:  Oddball
Description:  In the midst of all this museum equipment(actually the diesel hauled coaches were fairly new at this point) a NJT painted U34 goes out to the Main Line. Note the new terminal tower under construction to the left of the train.
Photo Date:  2/23/1984  Upload Date: 12/1/2013 4:08:18 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4160(U34CH)
Views:  287   Comments: 0
R 34 weekend
Title:  R 34 weekend
Description:  A trip to NY City most times meant a ride down NY 97 from Hancock to check whatever action might show up. When we got to Port Jervis, I had to take a look around, and usually found something. This weekend it was a U 34CH with a set of Comet|.
Photo Date:  4/27/1991  Upload Date: 3/17/2015 4:56:09 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NJT 4160(U34CH)
Views:  320   Comments: 0
Two in the yard
Title:  Two in the yard
Description:  A pair of commuter trains sit over the weekend at the Port Jervis yard. One has its U34 in full NJT paint, the other is still in EL colors, with a patch on the nose. It had a surprise on the long hood though.
Photo Date:  4/28/1991  Upload Date: 3/19/2015 4:18:09 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NJT 4166(U34CH) NJT 4160(U34CH)
Views:  484   Comments: 1
Waiting to go
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:  715   Comments: 1
Meanwhile the trains roll on
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)
Views:  302   Comments: 0
U34CH
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:  420   Comments: 0
U 34CH leads the way
Title:  U 34CH leads the way
Description:  Ex EL U34 CH leads a Main Line train at Suffern.
Photo Date:  2/7/1984  Upload Date: 10/6/2011 12:38:09 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4163(U34CH)
Views:  428   Comments: 0
Not your average EL meet.
Title:  Not your average EL meet.
Description:  RDCs were never part of the EL world-the ones here came from PRSL-so to see then meeting a train of the usual EL equipment here at Suffern, is, well, unusual. Otherwise the shot is classic EL, four track main, station house on the left next to the eastbound platform. Just need a PO Ordinary rolling down the inside track toward Croxton behind a mix of GP 7's and RS 3's.
Photo Date:  2/7/1984  Upload Date: 5/24/2014 1:15:59 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 5185(RDC1) NJT 4163(U34CH)
Views:  484   Comments: 1
Bergen County train
Title:  Bergen County train
Description:  An ex EL U34 pushes this Bergen County Line train toward Hoboken at Passaic Jct
Photo Date:  10/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/17/2014 2:38:58 AM
Location:  Passaic Junction, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4163(U34CH)
Views:  278   Comments: 0
EL still hanging on
Title:  EL still hanging on
Description:  This U34 had a patch paint NJ Transit herald on the nose, but this EL diamond on the side of the unit, 15 years after EL vanished from the scene. Well, maybe not quite....
Photo Date:  4/28/1991  Upload Date: 3/19/2015 4:21:55 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NJT 4166(U34CH)
Views:  419   Comments: 0
New paint
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:  399   Comments: 0
NJT 4168
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:  337   Comments: 0
NJT 4168 and the towers
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:  367   Comments: 0
Two to go
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:  442   Comments: 0
U 34s await the afternoon rush
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)
Views:  468   Comments: 0
Suffern train
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)
Views:  288   Comments: 0
Erie Lackawanna lives
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)
Views:  285   Comments: 0
Pushing east
Title:  Pushing east
Description:  One of the more attractive stations on the ex Erie in Jersey was Ridgewood. Here we see an eastbound with an EL painted U34 pushing toward Hoboken.
Photo Date:  5/7/1987  Upload Date: 11/26/2012 12:50:17 AM
Location:  Ridgewood, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4170(U34CH)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
Ready to go
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:  522   Comments: 0
EL power
Title:  EL power
Description:  An ex EL U34CH hbads out for the Main Line. Note the end of car 3572 at far left. It is in the orange and cream scheme that was applied to some of the cars in the early 80's by NJ Transht.
Photo Date:  2/23/1984  Upload Date: 12/1/2013 4:12:53 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4172(U34CH)
Views:  281   Comments: 0
U34
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)
Views:  321   Comments: 0
Old warrior
Title:  Old warrior
Description:  A U34CH, at home on familiar turf, sits in the yard at Port Jervis waiting for Monday.
Photo Date:  8/12/1991  Upload Date: 2/28/2015 4:19:30 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  NJT 4176(U34CH)
Views:  653   Comments: 0
In the shed
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:  326   Comments: 0
Out in the open
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:  336   Comments: 0
NJ Transit 4178
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)
Views:  395   Comments: 0
NJt 4179
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:  336   Comments: 1
Westbound U34
Title:  Westbound U34
Description:  A westbound train stops at the elegant Ridgewood station behind a still EL painted U34CH.
Photo Date:  5/7/1987  Upload Date: 11/26/2012 12:52:43 AM
Location:  Ridgewood, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4179(U34CH)
Views:  303   Comments: 0
Now a classic
Title:  Now a classic
Description:  By the 1990s, the U34s were getting old, and NJ Transit had been taking deliveries on a variety of new and rebuilt EMDs for several years. The GEs were not long for the world. It was good to see one in an EL stronghold. I wonder if Conrail wants to borrow a couple to run DABU to Buffalo??
Photo Date:  7/4/1992  Upload Date: 2/5/2015 2:43:36 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NJT 4179(U34CH)
Views:  284   Comments: 0
Dover train
Title:  Dover train
Description:  While NJ Transit was rebuilding the electrical system on the ex DLW lines, mid day trains ran with diesels. Heres one headed to Dover.
Photo Date:  2/21/1984  Upload Date: 12/1/2013 4:21:59 AM
Location:  Morristown, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4182(U34CH)
Views:  378   Comments: 0
Last unit
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:  514   Comments: 0
Ex CNW unit
Title:  Ex CNW unit
Description:  The last unit of the U34CH fleet was a rebuild of a CNW U30, and was numbered 4183. Here it is at Ridgewood with a Hoboken bound train, a bonus while waiting for Blue Mountain & Reading 425, which would pass westbound shortly, as we can see by the assembled masses at the station.
Photo Date:  8/2/1986  Upload Date: 12/6/2014 2:57:53 AM
Location:  Ridgewood, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4183(U34CH)
Views:  653   Comments: 0


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