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| Title: |
Two floors down |
| Description: |
Dad lived on 34th St west of 9th Av, and often walked past the "hole" where you could see the west throat of Penn Station. Sometimes hed get a pVoto. Today was one of those days, as an Amtrak E 60 was poking its nose into the sun. |
| Photo Date: |
5/3/1992 Upload Date: 3/25/2016 3:32:01 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 600(E60) |
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544 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Headed for the next run |
| Description: |
An Amtrak NE Corridor train rolls out of Sunnyside yard and is about to enter the East River tunnel on its way to Penn Station for a trip to DC. The Citicorp tower is under construction in the background. It's opening will go a long way to rejuvenating Long Island City. |
| Photo Date: |
3/8/1988 Upload Date: 7/1/2015 3:28:09 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, Hunters Point, Hu |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 602(E60) |
| Views: |
633 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Clocker |
| Description: |
A NY-Philly Clocker trainset sits at Sunnyside behind one of the few remaining E 60s. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 4:08:33 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 602(E60) |
| Views: |
764 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Motor pit |
| Description: |
Once home to a fleet of GG 1s, now AEM 7s dominate. The LIRR "hump" at Sunnyside Yard A is at left, with a freight ready to go out. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 4:17:12 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 931(AEM7) AMTK 937(AEM7) AMTK 602(E60) |
| Views: |
942 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
E60 heading into the tunnel |
| Description: |
An E 60 heads for Penn Station and a trip to DC, passing the LIRR Hunterspoint Av station as it heads into the tunnel. The still building Citicorp Center is in the background. The E60's were numbered out of the 950 series to make way for the new(then) AEM-7's. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 11/27/2011 2:45:48 AM |
| Location: |
Long Island City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 602(E60) |
| Views: |
785 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Wash rack train |
| Description: |
The Pennsy, in their wisdom, built this loop track to allow passenger trains coming from Penn Station to enter Sunnyside yard. Along the loop track that passed under the LIRR was a washer, which cleaned the outside of the trains as they approached the yard. This one is about to get a bath prior to entering the yard. The yard itself is in the middle background, and was once the largest passenger yard in the world. |
| Photo Date: |
3/8/1988 Upload Date: 7/1/2015 3:30:13 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 603(E60) |
| Views: |
996 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Arrival at the yard |
| Description: |
Having just come through the washer, the train seen earlier is now rolling into the east end of Sunnyside, and will pull through so it can be serviced. The E 60 will go to the motor pit, once home to the classic GG 1. |
| Photo Date: |
3/8/1988 Upload Date: 7/1/2015 3:35:41 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 603(E60) |
| Views: |
839 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Into the tunnel |
| Description: |
An Amtrak train rolls toward the East River tunnels as it makes its way from Sunnyside to Penn Station to take on riders. Seen from the stairway to the LIRR Hunterspoint Av station. Note the Ringling Bros train in the background, being staged to unload for their engagement at Madison Square Garden. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 4:11:13 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, Hunters Point, Hu |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 606(E60) LI 161(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
1207 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Busy scene |
| Description: |
Amtrak 606 heads past Hunterspoint Av station en route to Penn Station and a trip to Washington while the LIRR switches the Ringling Bros circus train in the background. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 5/22/2011 4:41:13 PM |
| Location: |
Long Island City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 606(E60) |
| Views: |
714 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Headed for the tunnel |
| Description: |
The Ringling Bros circus train is about to enter the East River tunnel at Hunterspoint Av in Queens behind a trio of E60s, which just took over from three LIRR MP15ACs. The train will be turned over to Conrail once in Jersey, and spotted near the Lincoln Tunnel entrance. Tomorrow the equipment and animals will be taken through the tunnel to their show in Madison Square Garden. I am standing on the LIRR Hunterspoint Av station, MP 1 in the foreground is the distance from the Long Island City float bridges, now long abandoned. The subway train behind the Amtrak power is the No 7 Flushing-Times Square train, seen about to leave the elevated line is has been on since just after leaving Main St, and enter the tunnel to make its Hunterspoint Av stop, then Vernon-Jackson, then on into Manhattan. The cars date to 1963, just prior to the Worlds Fair. |
| Photo Date: |
12/6/1985 Upload Date: 10/14/2014 2:15:48 AM |
| Location: |
Long Island City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Transit,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 950(E60) AMTK 951(E60) AMTK 952(AEM7) |
| Views: |
1367 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Circus train approaches the tunnel |
| Description: |
One of the more unusual moves to run through Penn Station is the Ringling Brothers circus train, which uses he tunnel to run from the LIRR to a staging area for Madison Square Garden out in the Jersey meadows. We see it here at Hunterspoint Av on the LIRR as it heads into the East River tunnel. |
| Photo Date: |
12/17/1985 Upload Date: 11/27/2011 3:02:12 AM |
| Location: |
Long Island City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 950(E60) AMTK 951(E60) AMTK 952(E60) |
| Views: |
1589 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Crew on |
| Description: |
A crew member climbs up onto the engine as it waits at Newark. Note the "traditional" garb of the engineer. |
| Photo Date: |
7/20/1981 Upload Date: 6/26/2014 2:46:06 AM |
| Location: |
Newark Penn Station, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 951(E60) |
| Views: |
757 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SW 1 |
| Description: |
Amtrak had a fleet of SW 1's that worked yards and some stations. Here's 745 at Sunnyside Yard in Queens |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1983 Upload Date: 11/12/2013 12:47:37 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard/ Hunt, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 745(SW1) AMTK 951(E60) |
| Views: |
883 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Yard action |
| Description: |
Sunnyside yard was always a great place to see Amtrak power and equipment of all sorts. This view from a passing LIRR train shows a pair of SW 1s an E60 and a Metroliner set |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/1983 Upload Date: 11/27/2013 1:37:29 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 745(SW1) AMTK 731(SW1) AMTK 951(E60) |
| Views: |
1163 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Gotta be the New Haven |
| Description: |
The catenary gives it away. Im on the last car of a New Haven bound commuter train, catching this Boston bound Amtrak through the rear window as it overtakes us. |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/1979 Upload Date: 12/9/2016 4:45:36 AM |
| Location: |
New Haven, CT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 956(E60) |
| Views: |
523 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Motor pit |
| Description: |
It was occasionally interesting to take a ride over to Sunnyside yard in Queens. Often there would be power parked within photo distance of one of the several street viaducts. Today I caught an Amtrak E 60. This view also shows the expanse of Sunnyside yard, at one time the largest passenger yard in the world. Note the ex PRR tower controlling yard trackage in the distance. |
| Photo Date: |
5/23/1982 Upload Date: 3/3/2013 3:12:41 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 957(E60) |
| Views: |
888 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Disco E 60 |
| Description: |
I dont recall that any of the other E 60s got repainted in this scheme. This one was at Hoboken for the festival, and may have been painted primarily for the purpose of showing it off there. The E60s never had the success of the GG 1s, and were soon replaced by a variety of European design electrics in the late 80s and 90s. This unit had to be towed in, as it was powered by alternating current and could not run on the DLW 3000 volt DC network. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1983 Upload Date: 11/25/2013 10:14:07 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 958(E60) |
| Views: |
802 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Uncoupled |
| Description: |
The motor off a New York train has uncouplled and is now pulling forward so diesels can take over. Somehow its not the same without GG 1s and Es. |
| Photo Date: |
11/6/1984 Upload Date: 8/1/2014 4:21:36 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 958(E60) |
| Views: |
672 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Light to the house |
| Description: |
NJT 958 rolls back through the station to the engine house at South Amboy. |
| Photo Date: |
11/6/1984 Upload Date: 8/1/2014 4:24:06 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 958(E60) |
| Views: |
893 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Arriving from NY |
| Description: |
NJT leads a New York train into the station at South Amboy to do the time honored engine change. |
| Photo Date: |
11/6/1984 Upload Date: 8/1/2014 4:29:50 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 958(E60) |
| Views: |
683 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
E60 |
| Description: |
By this time in 1983, NJ Transit had acquired some Amtrak E 60s to replace he GG 1s, which were slated for retirement. This one has just cut off its train from New York at South Amboy, and continues the time honored tradition of the engine change, pulling past the crossivers to head for the small yard. Note the crossing guard shanty and the old hand operated gates. These would soon pass into history. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1983 Upload Date: 11/19/2013 1:14:51 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 960(E60) |
| Views: |
750 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
New arrival |
| Description: |
More like same old arrival with new power. One of the E 60s NJ Transit bought from Amtrak arrives with a train from New York. Ex Pennsy subscription car North Jersey Commuter Club is head out, |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1983 Upload Date: 11/19/2013 1:18:58 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 960(E60) |
| Views: |
611 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
1160 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
New era |
| Description: |
Contrast this photo to the shot my dad took from roughly the same angle in 1964. Here we have an NJ Transit E60 ready to head into Penn Station with a Bay Head train, and an Amtrak SW 1. Not quite the same as GG 1s and a horde of P 70s. |
| Photo Date: |
4/23/1984 Upload Date: 6/24/2014 1:16:54 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 960(E60) |
| Views: |
613 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Side by side |
| Description: |
The new order-an F40 passes and ex Amtrak E60 west of the South Amboy station |
| Photo Date: |
11/6/1984 Upload Date: 8/2/2014 2:02:12 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4128(F40PH-2) NJT 960(E60) |
| Views: |
829 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Ready for the evening |
| Description: |
An ex Amtrak E 60 is ready to go into Penn Station for a trip to South Amboy later this afternoon. The E 60s were to take over the role of the GG 1s, but never seemed to quite live up to their predecessors repuation. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 4:38:45 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 960(E60) |
| Views: |
522 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Headed for DC |
| Description: |
An Amtrak train behind an E60 makes its station stop at Newark. |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1981 Upload Date: 1/26/2013 2:46:42 AM |
| Location: |
Newark Penn Station, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 961(E60) |
| Views: |
685 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Patched |
| Description: |
Like many NJ Transit units of that era, this E 60 wears the colors of a previous owner, only with a patch paint job showing its true owner. This one will make a trip out to South Amboy later today, just as its predecessors did for decades. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 4:41:06 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 961(E60) |
| Views: |
489 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Reversing |
| Description: |
NJT 963 has pulled down to allow the diesels to couple to the train, and will shortly be rolling back to the engine terminal |
| Photo Date: |
11/6/1984 Upload Date: 8/1/2014 4:33:20 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 963(E60) |
| Views: |
471 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Wrong side |
| Description: |
An eastbound Amtrak train is on the westbound side of the station, probably due to a problem on the normal eastbound track, or due to maintenance. |
| Photo Date: |
6/9/1978 Upload Date: 12/9/2016 4:48:12 AM |
| Location: |
Newark Penn Station, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 966(E60) |
| Views: |
548 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Last lap |
| Description: |
A New York bound train rolls past the PATH station at Harrison in the rain, charging to the tunnel on the last lap of its trip up the Corridor. A PATH train approaches at far left. |
| Photo Date: |
8/21/1980 Upload Date: 12/9/2016 3:30:45 AM |
| Location: |
Harrison, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 967(E60) |
| Views: |
537 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak E 60 at Rahway NJ |
| Description: |
E 60 967 at Rahway NJ with one of the Florida trains |
| Photo Date: |
4/21/1981 Upload Date: 2/14/2011 11:31:51 PM |
| Location: |
Rahway, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 967(E60) |
| Views: |
683 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
E60 in rolls |
| Description: |
Amrak 967 rolls a Florida train through Rahway |
| Photo Date: |
4/18/1983 Upload Date: 11/5/2013 12:22:54 AM |
| Location: |
Rahway, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 967(E60) |
| Views: |
546 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak E 60 at Harrison NJ |
| Description: |
Amtrak 970 leads a NE Corridor train through the PATH station at Harrison NJ headed for NY. Note the Raritan train off the CNJ coming up on the far left. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1980 Upload Date: 2/14/2011 11:29:29 PM |
| Location: |
Harrison, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 970(E60) |
| Views: |
893 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
E 60 east |
| Description: |
Even though most corridor trains had gone to AEM7s by 1983, most of the long haul trains ran with E60s due to their superior tractive effort, a plus with heavy trains. Here 970 is on the last leg into New York with a Florida train. |
| Photo Date: |
7/18/1983 Upload Date: 11/5/2013 12:44:59 AM |
| Location: |
Rahway, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 970(E60) |
| Views: |
449 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak 973 |
| Description: |
Amtrak 973 leads an Amtrak train toward Washington |
| Photo Date: |
5/12/1983 Upload Date: 12/3/2011 12:51:33 AM |
| Location: |
Rahway, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 973(E60) |
| Views: |
656 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Peeking out |
| Description: |
The power of a Clocker pokes out of the Newark train shed as it takes on passengers while the engineer watches. |
| Photo Date: |
7/20/1981 Upload Date: 6/26/2014 2:48:23 AM |
| Location: |
Newark Penn Station, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 974(E60) |
| Views: |
698 Comments: 0 |
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