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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1978 - 3/10/2011
Album Info:NJ Transit and predecessors trains
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CNJ power on the NY&LB
Title:  CNJ power on the NY&LB
Description:  The NY and Long Branch was jointly operated by PRR and CNJ prior to Conrail. CNJs trains originated from their Jersey City terminal until 1967, when the Aldene plan moved them into Newark Penn Station, with a cross platform transfer from New York connections. Here we see on of them, led by GP40P 4105. Note the crossing gates. They were manually operated at this time.
Photo Date:  4/27/1981  Upload Date: 1/13/2013 4:20:26 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4105(GP40P)
Views:  708   Comments: 1
Es to Bay Head
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:  493   Comments: 1
Lite power
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:  418   Comments: 1
Es headed for the shore
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:  288   Comments: 1
The Bay Head Crescent
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:  407   Comments: 2
North Jersey Commuter Club
Title:  North Jersey Commuter Club
Description:  Like the CNJ car elsewhere in this album, there was also a subscription club car for the commuters who rode the former PRR trains that originated in Penn Station New York. This one was of obvious Pennsy heritage.
Photo Date:  4/27/1981  Upload Date: 1/15/2012 11:25:02 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  542   Comments: 1
Ready to roll
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:  454   Comments: 1
NJT 4323
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:  856   Comments: 3
Long hood first to Raritan
Title:  Long hood first to Raritan
Description:  A train with a long hood first GP40P heads for the CNJ main
Photo Date:  7/21/1981  Upload Date: 6/26/2014 1:47:33 PM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4111(GP40P)
Views:  397   Comments: 1
Nose out.
Title:  Nose out.
Description:  Now loaded, 4112 heads out of Newark and down the corridor to Rahway, where it will head for the shore on the NY&LB
Photo Date:  7/21/1981  Upload Date: 6/26/2014 1:44:57 PM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4112(GP40P)
Views:  357   Comments: 1
Bay Head train
Title:  Bay Head train
Description:  A CNJ side train for the New York & Long Branch waits on track A at Newark for connections.
Photo Date:  7/21/1981  Upload Date: 6/26/2014 1:42:52 PM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4112(GP40P)
Views:  308   Comments: 1
NJ Transit 4102
Title:  NJ Transit 4102
Description:  NJ Transit head past the tail tracks where E units wait for Bay Head trains with a former CNJ train on the NY&LB. This angle shows the extended hood that accomodates the steam generator. Note the Southern E 8 at the extreme left of the frame.
Photo Date:  8/17/1981  Upload Date: 11/6/2011 2:09:42 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4102(GP40P)
Views:  574   Comments: 2
NJ Transit 5902
Title:  NJ Transit 5902
Description:  Among the units NJ Transit inherited from Conrail were a group of GP7Ps that came from CNJ. They lasted into the mid 80s along with the hand me down cars, everything from the ex BN Empire Builder cars to original CNJ coaches from 1925. Here, 5902, a former CNJ GP7P is at Newark Penn Station.
Photo Date:  8/17/1981  Upload Date: 11/6/2011 2:12:27 AM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 5902(GP7)
Views:  791   Comments: 1
Ex CNJ cab car
Title:  Ex CNJ cab car
Description:  When the Aldene plan was established in 1967, trains were set up to run push-pull. To accomodate this, CNJ home built some cab cars from their 1925 coaches, closing in a vestibule and installing engineers controls. Here one of them enters Newark Penn Station after coming off the LV at Hunter Tower, just to the west of the station.
Photo Date:  8/17/1981  Upload Date: 11/6/2011 2:22:38 AM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  960   Comments: 1
CNJ scene
Title:  CNJ scene
Description:  A North Jersey Coast train en route to New York behind three E8s passes BANK tower where the former CNJ Southern Division left the NY&LB line.
Photo Date:  11/14/1981  Upload Date: 11/6/2011 1:58:42 AM
Location:  Red Bank, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4251(E8A) NJT 4323(E8A) NJT 4330(E8A)
Views:  946   Comments: 2
Bay Head train
Title:  Bay Head train
Description:  A Bay Head train makes its stop at Red Bank. Note the CNJ style signals, and the dwarf on track 2. It protects the no longer extant switch to the northbound main on the CNJ Southern Division.
Photo Date:  11/15/1981  Upload Date: 3/3/2013 4:53:14 AM
Location:  Red Bank, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4248(E8A) NJT 4253(E8A)
Views:  677   Comments: 1
Past the tower
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: 
Locomotives:  NJT 4334(E8A) NJT 4257(E8A)
Views:  830   Comments: 2
Two units to Phillipsburg
Title:  Two units to Phillipsburg
Description:  NJ Transit continued running two rush hour trains to Phillipsburg NJ, as well as a mid day run, until 1983. Here one of the rush hour trains is ready to go from Newark Penn Station behind a GP7P-note the squared off end on the long hood of the lead unit-and a GP40P. NJ Transit adopted the paint scheme used on the EL U34CHs until it came up with the "disco" scheme in the mid 80s. Many of the fans thought this was an elegant paint scheme, and that the new scheme was not an improvement.
Photo Date:  5/7/1982  Upload Date: 11/6/2011 2:18:58 AM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 5905(GP7) NJT 4103(GP40P)
Views:  745   Comments: 1
Arrows making their stop
Title:  Arrows making their stop
Description:  A Trenton local stops at Rahway to take on passengers for Newark and New York.
Photo Date:  4/18/1983  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 1:20:02 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 1496(Arrow III MU)
Views:  142   Comments: 1
NJT 4126
Title:  NJT 4126
Description:  NJT 4126 leads a Bay Head train covering what was once a Jersey Central schedule through Rahway en route to the shore
Photo Date:  4/18/1983  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 1:25:21 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4126(F40PH-2CAT)
Views:  263   Comments: 1
NJT 4125
Title:  NJT 4125
Description:  NJT 4125 leads a train from the Meadows yard toward Newark to take on passengers for Bay Head. The Hartz Mountain sigh, a Harrison landmark for many years, is behind the train
Photo Date:  4/25/1983  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 1:22:15 AM
Location:  Harrison, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4125(F40PH-2)
Views:  337   Comments: 1
Monmouth Club
Title:  Monmouth Club
Description:  Before NJ Transit updated their equipment, had two subscription club cars on the Bay Head line. This one was assigned to the CNJ trains that ran from Newark, and was once a Jersey Central car.
Photo Date:  6/13/1983  Upload Date: 1/15/2012 11:21:16 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  127   Comments: 1
Es head for the shore
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:  775   Comments: 1
E60
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:  617   Comments: 2
 New arrival
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:  460   Comments: 1
Lite power parade
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:  759   Comments: 1
Matawan local
Title:  Matawan local
Description:  A train of Arrows arrives from the new electric terminal at Matawan on its way to New York. The crossing shanty at right would be history by the end of the year.
Photo Date:  7/26/1983  Upload Date: 11/19/2013 1:36:12 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  253   Comments: 1
CNJ side
Title:  CNJ side
Description:  With ex CNJ power. An ex Jersey Central unit arrives with a train from Newark, where the trains once originated on the CNJ in Jersey City began their trips after 1967.
Photo Date:  7/26/1983  Upload Date: 11/19/2013 1:43:26 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4111(GP40P)
Views:  365   Comments: 1
Work extra
Title:  Work extra
Description:  The steam generator wont be needed for this train, a work extra cabooses hop.
Photo Date:  7/26/1983  Upload Date: 11/19/2013 1:46:56 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4102(GP40P)
Views:  339   Comments: 1
Off to the races....
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:  679   Comments: 1
More lite power
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:  959   Comments: 1
Ex CNJ power
Title:  Ex CNJ power
Description:  A pair of ex CNJ units rolls past the station to stage for a train from New York.
Photo Date:  7/26/1983  Upload Date: 11/19/2013 1:57:13 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4112(GP40P)
Views:  282   Comments: 1
Newark train
Title:  Newark train
Description:  An ex CNJ train makes its stop en route to Newark and a New York connection. This would become the standard train set when all the steam heat equipment was retired.
Photo Date:  7/26/1983  Upload Date: 11/19/2013 2:03:29 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4120(F40PH-2)
Views:  438   Comments: 2
F40 west
Title:  F40 west
Description:  An almost new F40 leads a Raritan train west
Photo Date:  7/26/1983  Upload Date: 11/23/2013 1:24:41 AM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4125(F40PH-2)
Views:  224   Comments: 1
CNJ side
Title:  CNJ side
Description:  A train that originated from Newark, that would have run out of Jersey City on the CNJ prior to 1967 pauses at South Amboy.
Photo Date:  7/26/1983  Upload Date: 11/20/2013 12:13:06 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4128(F40PH-2)
Views:  213   Comments: 1
Classic nose
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:  287   Comments: 1
Lite Es
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:  625   Comments: 0
Cab car leading
Title:  Cab car leading
Description:  On some trains, the cab car would lead west, though most had the locomotive on the west end. A cab car leads this Raritan train
Photo Date:  7/26/1983  Upload Date: 11/23/2013 1:27:08 AM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  315   Comments: 0
Peek a boo
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:  284   Comments: 0
Power change
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:  961   Comments: 0
M&E 14
Title:  M&E 14
Description:  The Hoboken Festival drew a variety of equipment ro the ex DLW station in Hoboken, mostly from NJ Transit, but also from connecting lines. Morristown & Erie usually pitched in with a couple of Alcos. This year did not disappoint, as the sent an S 4 and a C430. Heres S 4 14.
Photo Date:  10/1/1983  Upload Date: 11/25/2013 10:00:53 PM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  ME 14(S4)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
M&E 16
Title:  M&E 16
Description:  M&E sent C430 #16 as well, heres a nose view.
Photo Date:  10/1/1983  Upload Date: 11/25/2013 10:02:39 PM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  ME 16(C430)
Views:  517   Comments: 0
M&E 16 long end first
Title:  M&E 16 long end first
Description:  A rear view of M&E 16 at Hoboken
Photo Date:  10/1/1983  Upload Date: 11/25/2013 10:04:00 PM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  ME 16(C430)
Views:  594   Comments: 0
Disco E 60
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:  629   Comments: 0
West bound on the CNJ
Title:  West bound on the CNJ
Description:  A Raritan train seen from the cab car of an eastbouod train on the ex CNJ from Phillipsburg, just off the Aldene connection.
Photo Date:  12/31/1983  Upload Date: 12/31/1983 12:00:00 AM
Location:  Roselle Park, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckeut
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4107(GP40P)
Views:  284   Comments: 0
New era
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:  457   Comments: 1
Arrows to New York
Title:  Arrows to New York
Description:  The electrification was extended to Matawan in 1984, and MU trains were extended there from South Amboy. Thus we have the previously unusual sight of a train of Arrows rolling in from beyond what had been the end of wire.
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 1:44:07 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 1250(Arrow II MU)
Views:  502   Comments: 0
Arrows to Matawan
Title:  Arrows to Matawan
Description:  A westbound train from Penn Station leaves South Amboy en route to the new end of wire in Matawan
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 1:46:57 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  154   Comments: 0
Arrows east
Title:  Arrows east
Description:  A Jersey Arrow train rolls into South Amboy
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 1:48:54 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 1500(Arrow III MU)
Views:  199   Comments: 0
Newark train
Title:  Newark train
Description:  A CNJ side train that originated from Newark passes the ready tracks at South Amboy behind a pair of ex CNJ GP40Ps. From the equipment, this is the former "Bay Head Empire Builder," named for the cars which came from BN, and ran til the early 80's still in BN and GN colors.
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 1:51:08 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4103(GP40P) NJT 4102(GP40P)
Views:  551   Comments: 0


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