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| Title: |
Triple threat |
| Description: |
A trio of GG 1s pulls up to the north end of Potomac Yard with a train it is doubling over. Sadly, it did not pull past my position while I was there. That would havk been a real treat, to see triple slotted Gs rolling for Jersey. |
| Photo Date: |
7/31/1979 Upload Date: 12/17/2016 3:45:27 AM |
| Location: |
Arlington, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 4825(GG1) |
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388 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Yard shot from the LIRR |
| Description: |
Dad rode the LIRR to work every day from our home in Little Neck, which gave him a good shot passing Sunnyside yard. If he saw something interesting-he was partial to GG 1s-hed grab a shot. Heres 4864 in the Scotchlite lettering waiting to back down onto a train. Check the cars in yard A-there's a DLW Phoebe Snow box car, a Pennsy 50 ft double door box, as well as IC and EL cars. Overhead is Queens Blvd; above it is the IRT Flushing Line, which was not yet designated the #7. |
| Photo Date: |
9/24/1964 Upload Date: 12/4/2014 3:42:10 PM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 4864(GG1) |
| Views: |
553 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
NJT 4872 |
| Description: |
GG 1s could look quite imposing, as 4872 does arriving from New York with a Pennsy side train |
| Photo Date: |
7/25/1983 Upload Date: 11/18/2013 1:35:36 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4872(GG1) |
| Views: |
384 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Rolling through town |
| Description: |
GG 1 4873 heads for the engine house at South Amboy. Note the metal strips on the air filter grille. These were to accomodate the pinstripes that adorned the Gs in their glory days. Also of note is the grade crossing tender's shanty at right. The gates at South Amboy were manually operated til the 1983 upgrade and extension of the wire to Matawan. |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1981 Upload Date: 1/13/2013 3:50:59 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4873(GG1) |
| Views: |
454 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
636 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) |
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1000 Comments: 4 |
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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: |
608 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Off to the races.... |
| Description: |
well not exactly. Its not a race, its just 4876 heading back ot the engine house while 4109 ties on to its train |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1983 Upload Date: 11/19/2013 1:52:44 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4109(GP40P) NJT 4876(GG1) |
| Views: |
758 Comments: 1 |
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| Description: |
NJT 4876 speeds through Rahway with a Bay Head train. This was the engine that gained notoriety when it crashed into Washington Union Station with a r{naway Federal in 1953. It was cut in half and removed from the basement of the station to run again, which it did til 1983. Note the Pennsy car behind the GG 1. There were two rubscription parlors on the North Jersey Coast Line, one that ran from Newark as part of the Jersey Central side of the operation. The other was a Pennsy car that ran on a New Ysrk train. Both cars ran an inbound trip in the morning, and an outbound trip in the afternoon, serving refreshments appropriate for the time of day. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1983 Upload Date: 11/26/2011 11:42:20 PM |
| Location: |
Rahway, NJ |
| Author: |
Som Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4876(GG1) |
| Views: |
575 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Glimpse of greatness |
| Description: |
I rode the cab of an Oyster Bay train into Hunterspoint Av as part of a rider outreach program in 1978. This gave me vantage points I would not have otherwise had, such as this view out the window of FA 610 near Harold tower. The partial engine is SW 1001 105, one of a pair of units-the other was 101-kept there as protect power to pull an M 1 train out of the tunnel if it became necessary. That engine is not the star here. Down in the hole, partly obscured, is GG 1 4877, then a Conrail unit, pulling into the turning loop that trains from Penn Station use to get into Sunnyside Yard. In three more years, that engine will be repainted into the red PRR Congressional scheme, and live out the remaining two years of its existence running commuters at high speed between New York and South Amboy. |
| Photo Date: |
4/10/1978 Upload Date: 11/30/2016 2:39:14 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PC 4877(GG1) LI 105(SW1001) |
| Views: |
674 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Queen of the fleet |
| Description: |
PRR 4877 sits at the South Amboy engine facility after arriving from New York with a Bay head train |
| Photo Date: |
5/18/1981 Upload Date: 1/30/2013 12:32:28 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4877(GG1) |
| Views: |
582 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Queen of the festival |
| Description: |
For a number of years, NJ Transit hosted an event called the Hoboken Festival at the ex DLW station there. They would bring in a variety of equipment for display, not only their own, but M&E and Amtrak as well. The queen of the fleet, restored GG 1 4877, of course had to be towed in, along with all the other AC powered trains, since it would not run on the DLW 3000 volt DC power then in place. It still looked good. One has to wonder, had the Gs lasted long enough to make it into the AC era on the DLW, how they would have looked rolling down the three track main through Harrison, or pulling into Summit. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1983 Upload Date: 11/24/2013 11:41:22 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4877(GG1) |
| Views: |
363 Comments: 0 |
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| 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) |
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825 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NJT 4879 |
| Description: |
NJT 4879 pulls a short New York bound train past the PATH station at Harrison NJ toward the end of its career. This would be the last GG 1 to run, closing the show in October on a"fantrip to Matawan. The PATH trains ran on the outside tracks here-note the third rail. That system was once part of the Pennsy empire, known then as the Hudson & Manhattan, cnnnecting Pennsy stations at Newark and Jersey City with New York starting in 1908. |
| Photo Date: |
5/10/1983 Upload Date: 11/26/2011 11:47:10 PM |
| Location: |
Harrison, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4879(GG1) |
| Views: |
669 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Ready to make the hitch |
| Description: |
The head end crew waits for their power to back down out of the house and tie on to take the train into Penn Station New York. Air and steam connections will be made, and off they'll go. |
| Photo Date: |
6/11/1979 Upload Date: 1/5/2014 4:41:26 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4880(GG1) |
| Views: |
666 Comments: 3 |
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| 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: |
583 Comments: 2 |
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| 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: |
487 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Bay Head train |
| Description: |
A mid day Bay Head train rolls for New York behind a GG 1, now in its last six months of service. |
| Photo Date: |
4/18/1983 Upload Date: 11/5/2013 1:05:25 AM |
| Location: |
Rahway, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4882(GG1) |
| Views: |
410 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NJT 4882 |
| Description: |
NJT 4882 has cut off from its train and is heading for the crossovers to access the small yard at South Amboy. Note the air filteps still retain the metal strips used to paint the pinstripes from Pennsy days. |
| Photo Date: |
7/25/1983 Upload Date: 11/18/2013 1:39:42 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4882(GG1) |
| Views: |
588 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Headed for the shore |
| Description: |
GG 1 4883 leads a Bay Head train at Newark. It will swap for E units at South Amboy |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1979 Upload Date: 8/8/2012 2:06:54 AM |
| Location: |
Newark, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4883(GG1) |
| Views: |
477 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pennsy lives |
| Description: |
This keystone on the nose of NJ DOT 4883 lasted into the early 80s, as did the stripe, making it one of the last G's to have any vestige of its PRR days to haul passengers. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1979 Upload Date: 8/8/2012 2:12:22 AM |
| Location: |
New York Penn Sta, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4883(GG1) |
| Views: |
588 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ready to go |
| Description: |
NJ Transit GG 1 4883 is ready to head a shore train to South Amboy and a trade off with E 8s. It seems to have lost the PRR keystone it had below the headlight, but retains the single stripe, which it would have to retirement two years later. |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1981 Upload Date: 1/13/2013 3:40:57 AM |
| Location: |
New York Penn Sta, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4883(GG1) |
| Views: |
466 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Almost a Pennsy unit |
| Description: |
Well, they all were...this one still has its single wide stripe, and if you look carefully under the headlight, you can see the remnant of a PRR keystone |
| Photo Date: |
5/18/1981 Upload Date: 1/30/2013 12:26:00 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4883(GG1) |
| Views: |
560 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Rolling in for an engine change |
| Description: |
A Bay Head train rolls into South Amboy where it will drop the G and add a pair of E8s to complete the trip down the shore. |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/1981 Upload Date: 3/3/2013 4:32:09 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4883(GG1) |
| Views: |
443 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
View from a dutch door |
| Description: |
One of the joys of riding trains in the hand me down days of the 60s and 70s was that there were still a lot of cars that had been cast off from long distance trains. Most of these had dutch doors, which you were permitted to ride in, though Im sure the practice was officially frowned on. Riding in the vesibule did give a great view, such as this from a New York bound train, of a Bay Head train behind a GG 1. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1979 Upload Date: 8/8/2012 2:10:40 AM |
| Location: |
Rahway, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4884(GG1) |
| Views: |
472 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
G power |
| Description: |
A train on the Pennsy side that originated out of Penn Station in New York arrives at South Amboy for an engine change. |
| Photo Date: |
4/6/1981 Upload Date: 6/7/2014 2:45:28 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4884(GG1) |
| Views: |
351 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Good variety |
| Description: |
Im passing Amtraks Bear, Del shop on the southbound Crescent, where anything and everything is in attendance. We see a couple of F 40s, Es, two GG 1s and an E 60. All we need is an SDP40 and a Pooch to complete the picture. |
| Photo Date: |
8/4/1980 Upload Date: 12/8/2016 4:55:14 AM |
| Location: |
Bear, DE |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 325(F40PHR) AMTK 425(E9A) AMTK 420(E9A) AMTK 4906(GG1) |
| Views: |
1040 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
GG 1 ready to roll |
| Description: |
PRR 4920 awaits its next run toward DC or Philly at Sunnyside Yard, as seen from the Long Island RR. My dad took the photo on his way to work. |
| Photo Date: |
11/10/1964 Upload Date: 7/20/2011 1:59:20 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 4920(GG1) |
| Views: |
1793 Comments: 16 |
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| Title: |
Red, white, and blue |
| Description: |
A New York bound train rolls into Baltimore behind one of Amtraks "circus" units, so called for the bright paint job. I suppose it was better than basic black, but there had to have been better paint schemes. |
| Photo Date: |
7/30/1979 Upload Date: 12/8/2016 4:10:57 AM |
| Location: |
Baltimore Penn Stati, MD |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 4924(GG1) |
| Views: |
469 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Anticipation |
| Description: |
The crowd looks down the tracks as the Amtrak connection to a Raritan train comes into view at the far end of the station. There were a handful of trains every day that had an Amtrak connection to New York, and honored first CR, then NJT tickets for the one stop. |
| Photo Date: |
7/20/1979 Upload Date: 12/8/2016 4:15:30 AM |
| Location: |
Newark Penn Station, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 4926(GG1) |
| Views: |
421 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Circus unit |
| Description: |
A New York bound Amtrak train arrives at Newark behind one of the red/blue/silver GG 1s |
| Photo Date: |
7/20/1979 Upload Date: 8/8/2012 2:02:55 AM |
| Location: |
Newark, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 4926(GG1) |
| Views: |
551 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
GG 1 from the train |
| Description: |
Dad caught this G in Sunnyside yard while passing on the Long Island. At right is Queens Blvd, with its IRT Flushing elevated line. Going toward Manhattan, it leads to Queensboro Plaza station, seen at the center top of the photo. There, transfer can be made to the BMT Astoria Line, which goes straight into the 60th St tunnel, and will make its next stop at 59th and Lexington. The IRT will curve sharply south, making Court Square, then Hunterspoint Av before going underground. |
| Photo Date: |
10/22/1964 Upload Date: 12/4/2014 3:47:18 PM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 4931(GG1) |
| Views: |
485 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Look ma, no wire |
| Description: |
A pair of GG 1s that are slated to go to a yet to be established museum have been acquired from Amtrak, and are now sitting at the connection from the D&H to the old Cooperstown branch, at this time operated by the NYSW. I have a connection to 4932, as it was the engine I rode behind on the Broadway from NY to Harrisburg in August 1978. |
| Photo Date: |
11/4/1989 Upload Date: 12/14/2015 2:56:02 AM |
| Location: |
Cooperstown Junction, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 4934(GG1) AMTK 4932(GG1) |
| Views: |
951 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Long way from home |
| Description: |
The Central NY Leatherstocking RHS acquired a couple of GG 1s for display, which have been sitting a Cooperstown Jct for some time. Here we see them, along with the plaque noting their significance. On a personal note, Amtrak 4932 was the engine that pulled the Broadway from NY to Harrisburg when I rode it in August 1978 |
| Photo Date: |
10/14/2001 Upload Date: 10/26/2013 2:55:52 AM |
| Location: |
Cooperstown Junction, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
PC 4934(GG1) AMTK 4932(GG1) |
| Views: |
865 Comments: 2 |
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