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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:4/1/1976 - 4/1/1976
Album Info:Erie Lackawanna commuter lines after the demise of the EL, as run by Conrail, NJ Transit and Metro North.
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Short layover
Title:  Short layover
Description:  This Main Line train on the Erie side has completed its run to Suffern, and is now tat Hillburn waiting for time to roll back into Suffern and get on its way back to Hoboken. The renumbering into Conrails passenger block is underway; this unit is now CR 4153, having given up its EL number of 3353. The NY Thruway passes overhead. The building under the bridge, above the 4th car, is SF tower, which controls the entrance to the yard here, as well as the junction to the Pascack Valley Line, which still had freight customers on it at the time, though passenger trains terminated at Spring Valley.
Photo Date:  7/10/1978  Upload Date: 12/6/2016 4:06:24 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  NJDOT 4153(U34CH)
Views:  400   Comments: 0
Leading the way
Title:  Leading the way
Description:  Comet I cab car 5112, one of the original cars financed by New Jersey in 1971, leads an eastbound Main Line train into Suffern as it starts its run to Hoboken.
Photo Date:  7/10/1978  Upload Date: 12/6/2016 4:14:48 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  223   Comments: 0
Elegance in appliances
Title:  Elegance in appliances
Description:  I have to keep reminding myself, in todays age of steel tubes, that there once was a certain elegance to industrial design. This number board on a DLW MU may not be an important detail, but it appears an effort was made to make it look attractive while functional.
Photo Date:  7/10/1978  Upload Date: 12/7/2016 3:36:38 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  EL 3204(Electric M.U.)
Views:  149   Comments: 1
Seeing the light
Title:  Seeing the light
Description:  The sun angle is getting where its low enough in the right direction to light up trains in the shed. An ancient Lackawanna MU catches the sun as it waits for departure time.
Photo Date:  7/10/1978  Upload Date: 12/6/2016 5:16:19 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  EL 3204(Electric M.U.)
Views:  195   Comments: 0
Looking like EL
Title:  Looking like EL
Description:  The first few years of the Conrail era were transitional as ownership of equipment at facilities was in flux. NJDOT had taken title to some of the rail lines, and most of the equipment, which Conrail then ran under contract, until NJ Transit was created as an operating entity. In the meantime, some things continued as they always had, though some would be modified. One of those was the renumbering of all passenger power into the CR numbering system, which largely followed the PC plan, with all passenger engines numbered in the 4000-4399 series, though with gaps. It took a few years for ELs power to get redone, and for a few years, it was as if nothing had changed. Heres evidence of that, as we see EL 3352, now owned by NJDOT, waiting to head west from Hoboken on a late July afternoon. Interestingly, the EL herald on the nose looks a lot better than the stick on NJDOT decal midway down the long hood.
Photo Date:  7/10/1978  Upload Date: 12/7/2016 3:43:25 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  EL 3352(U34CH)
Views:  347   Comments: 1
Transition!!
Title:  Transition!!
Description:  With apolpogies to Zero Mostel. As mentioned elsewhere in this group, the predecessor roads power was moved into the CR numbering system. Heres a couple of units showing that process. NJDOT 4169, formerly EL 3369, leads a train out of the shed while 3354, still wearing its EL colors and number, is in the background. The renumberings and ownership change didnt stop CR, who ran the trains under contract, from doing the same thing EL had done, much to New Jerseys chagrin. Theyd borrow a set of power to run a freight to Binghamton or Buffalo over a weekend, hoping they got it back to Suffern or Port Jervis in time for Mondays rush.
Photo Date:  7/10/1978  Upload Date: 12/7/2016 3:50:14 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJDOT 4169(U34CH) EL 3354(U34CH)
Views:  278   Comments: 0
Looking west
Title:  Looking west
Description:  EL 3366 leads a train out of the train shed, into the maze of puzzle switches as it heads for West End. To the right of the train is Hoboken Terminal Tower, a crazy place if there ever was one.
Photo Date:  7/10/1978  Upload Date: 12/7/2016 3:55:29 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  EL 3366(U34CH)
Views:  216   Comments: 0
Just like before
Title:  Just like before
Description:  A pair of U 34s, still in their EL dress, confer before heading out to their commuter runs. I was fortunate to get to Hoboken to see it before everything was renumbered into CRs plan.
Photo Date:  7/10/1978  Upload Date: 12/7/2016 4:00:18 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  EL 3366(U34CH) EL 3373(U34CH)
Views:  367   Comments: 1
Port Jervis train
Title:  Port Jervis train
Description:  While most of the trains on the ELs Erie side ran to Suffern, just over the state line in NY, there were still several that ran the 87 miles to Port Jervis, at that time via the Main Line through Goshen and Chester. The move to the Graham Line was still five years in the future at the time of the photo. Because the run to PO had 57 miles in New York, MTA funded some of the equipment in that pool, including this set of coaches, hence the much different appearance from the Comet Is used in New Jersey. These were built to the specs for the Silverliners, but without the electrical equipment.
Photo Date:  7/10/1978  Upload Date: 12/7/2016 4:39:57 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  EL 3373(U34CH)
Views:  237   Comments: 0
Familiar face
Title:  Familiar face
Description:  There were a couple of SW 9s that worked at Hoboken during the EL years. Both stayed on after CR startup, and on into NJ Transit. In 1978, this one was still in its old owners colors, thought the name had been painted out. They could have left the number, which was unchanged, in its original typeface.
Photo Date:  7/10/1978  Upload Date: 12/6/2016 4:36:05 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  EL 438(SW9)
Views:  345   Comments: 0
Keeping the faith
Title:  Keeping the faith
Description:  The EL herald on this coach will last a lot longer than the pure look on the power. Some of these cars went well into the 80s with their EL markings intact.
Photo Date:  7/10/1978  Upload Date: 12/7/2016 5:01:30 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  117   Comments: 1
DLW interior
Title:  DLW interior
Description:  Heres the interior of an ex DLW MU car as it looked in the late 70s.
Photo Date:  7/17/1978  Upload Date: 9/5/2012 11:37:10 PM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  410   Comments: 0
Not quite what I expected
Title:  Not quite what I expected
Description:  As I rode into Chicago on the Broadway-still on an all Pennsy route then-I got a look at the 14th St coach yard, where there was this surprise, a set of EL coaches. These had come off the Cleveland-Youngstown commuter train, which had come off in January 1977. Conrail was still running commuter trains in several places, one of them the ex PRR train out to Valparaiso, which these cars sometimes worked. In Jersey by this date, all the locomotive hauled trains had been converted to push pull, so these were the last EL through line cars to run on commuter trains. Too bad there wasnt a train out to Crown Point or so. These would have looked nice behind an E unit rolling through Griffith. Note the ex PRR P 70s at right, which were the standard equipment on the Valpo train.
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 11/16/2016 4:59:42 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  238   Comments: 1
All in one
Title:  All in one
Description:  I captured both facilities at Denville in this shot. The station, looking worse for wear, is in the foreground. The tower, which controls the junction here of the Morristown Line, which swings off to the right out of sight, and the Boonton Line, seen going straight off into the distance, is in the rear. There was virtually no freight on this part of the railroad by this time, unlike a few years earlier, when the Boonton Line was quite busy with traffic to and from Scranton and the west. Now it only hosted a couple of locals and commuter trains.
Photo Date:  1/11/1979  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 5:14:32 AM
Location:  Denville, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Track
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Views:  164   Comments: 0
Like its 1954
Title:  Like its 1954
Description:  The DLW had two lines from Hoboken to Denville, the Boonton Line, and the electrified Morristown Line. They met here at a junction guarded by a tower, though the story of the Boonton Line is complicated, as the line as it exists now was a combination of the ex DLW and Erie Greenwood Lake branch that was cobbled together to facilitate building I 80 in the Paterson area. Here it is in 1979, looking much like it did in 1954, 25 years earlier. The only real difference is the parking lot and the cars. The trains, for the most part, look the same now as then.
Photo Date:  1/11/1979  Upload Date: 12/6/2016 4:19:54 AM
Location:  Denville, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station
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Views:  234   Comments: 0
Dover train
Title:  Dover train
Description:  An eastbound train headed for Hoboken approaches the Denville station as it rolls in from Dover. Could be 1962
Photo Date:  2/22/1979  Upload Date: 1/5/2014 4:08:47 AM
Location:  Denville, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
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Views:  328   Comments: 0
In from the cold
Title:  In from the cold
Description:  Im waiting on a very cold platform at the DLW station in Newark. It was a much smaller facility than its PRR cousin, about a mile away from downtown. While its passenger loadings for the DLW may have been substantial, they paled in comparison to the Pennsys. But then, more people want to go to Philly, Baltimore and DC than Scranton and Binghamton!! A 50 year old set of MUs approaches, and Ill soon be soaking up the warmth inside.
Photo Date:  3/13/1979  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 5:23:28 AM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  116   Comments: 0
Sign of the times
Title:  Sign of the times
Description:  From a long time ago. This sign notes a railroad that was leased by the Erie in the 19th century, and has survived three mergers as the Erie became EL, then Conrail, and now NJ Transit, which calls it the Pascack Valley Line. Note the crossing guard tower in the background.
Photo Date:  4/17/1979  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 5:32:48 AM
Location:  Hackensack, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station
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Views:  108   Comments: 0
Lined up and ready
Title:  Lined up and ready
Description:  A pair of DLW MU's, looking for all the world like it's still 1952, ready to roll for Dover.
Photo Date:  7/19/1979  Upload Date: 1/1/2014 4:16:57 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories: 
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Views:  317   Comments: 1
Timeless scene
Title:  Timeless scene
Description:  It was actually taken in 1979, but it could be any time after 1960. The EL ticket windows at Hoboken kept this appearance til the 1980's. It should have been forever.
Photo Date:  7/19/1979  Upload Date: 1/5/2014 4:08:45 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  209   Comments: 0
EL 4601
Title:  EL 4601
Description:  The Erie Lackawanna lines out of Hoboken were a time warp, although elsewhere in New Jersey not much had changed either. What made the EL trains special was that, except for some of the U34's, almost nothing had been altered from its EL appearance, where on the PC and CNJ lines there was a lot of painting out of predecessor road names. The trains and stations would retain their flavor til NJ Transit updated the DLW lines a few years later and changed the power distribution system, rendering these Edison era trains obsolete.
Photo Date:  11/13/1979  Upload Date: 12/29/2013 4:11:08 AM
Location:  Gladstone, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  EL 4601(Electric M.U.)
Views:  522   Comments: 0
Like it never even happened
Title:  Like it never even happened
Description:  A train of ex DLW MU's sits at the end of the line in Gladstone, looking for all the world like EL was going on forever.
Photo Date:  11/13/1979  Upload Date: 12/29/2013 4:11:10 AM
Location:  Gladstone, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  EL 4601(Electric M.U.)
Views:  393   Comments: 0
Pushing on through
Title:  Pushing on through
Description:  A set of Comets is in push mode as it stops at Glen Rock. The U34 on the rear will shortly be pushing the train closer to a date with the bumping post at Hoboken. An irony of the town name here is that there is a town in New York, up on the Buffalo Sub, called Rock Glen, just north(railroad west) of Silver Springs.
Photo Date:  7/8/1980  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 5:28:37 AM
Location:  Glen Rock, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  179   Comments: 0
EL power
Title:  EL power
Description:  NJDOT inherited commuter operations from all the New Jersey carriers, and in the early years there was little change. The original carriers power and equipment tended to stay "home" as it were. Here we see an ex EL U34 with a set of push pull cars. Except for the engine having a new number, you'd never think this was an NJ DOT train-even the EL diamond is on the nose of this unit.
Photo Date:  7/8/1980  Upload Date: 9/6/2012 12:02:05 AM
Location:  Ridgewood, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4162(U34CH)
Views:  470   Comments: 1
RDCs on the Erie
Title:  RDCs on the Erie
Description:  The shuttle from Suffern was covered by RDCs for several years in the early 80s. Here are a pair them at Port Jervis in February of 1981. Note the letterboard on the nearest car-its lettered for PRSL, a world away from the former Erie.
Photo Date:  2/10/1981  Upload Date: 7/25/2011 1:28:07 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 5189(RDC1)
Views:  768   Comments: 2
RDCs on the Erie, part 2
Title:  RDCs on the Erie, part 2
Description:  These RDCs have returned to Suffern from Port Jervis, and are now headed to the yard to finish out their day.
Photo Date:  2/10/1981  Upload Date: 7/25/2011 1:30:49 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 5185(RDC1) NJT 5189(RDC1)
Views:  1130   Comments: 2
Edison era MUs
Title:  Edison era MUs
Description:  A train of Edison era MU electrics still lettered for Erie Lackawanna waits out the Labor Day weekend.
Photo Date:  9/7/1981  Upload Date: 11/6/2011 1:51:55 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  EL 4317(Electric M.U.)
Views:  415   Comments: 0
Original equipment!!
Title:  Original equipment!!
Description:  A sign that must date from 1930 is still in place on the fence at Summit NJ in 1981.
Photo Date:  9/7/1981  Upload Date: 11/6/2011 1:54:35 AM
Location:  Summit, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station
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Views:  384   Comments: 0
New scheme
Title:  New scheme
Description:  NJ Transit tried a "traction orange" paint job on some of the DLW MUs. It didnt get very far, most likely due to budget issues. Just as well-the Pullman green the fleet spent most of its life in was just fine.
Photo Date:  9/7/1981  Upload Date: 6/30/2014 2:42:58 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  EL 3205(Electric M.U.)
Views:  605   Comments: 0
EL MUs
Title:  EL MUs
Description:  Ex EL 1930s era MU cars served on the ex DLW lines out of Hoboken til the mid 1980s. Here we see a set ready to go at Hoboken.
Photo Date:  9/7/1981  Upload Date: 2/17/2013 2:33:50 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  EL 4347(Electric M.U.)
Views:  262   Comments: 0
DLW memories
Title:  DLW memories
Description:  A Hoboken bound train arrives at Summit NJ. The Edison era cars from the original electrification are still in service in this 1981 scene.
Photo Date:  9/7/1981  Upload Date: 5/29/2011 2:39:32 AM
Location:  Summit, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  270   Comments: 0
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:  574   Comments: 1
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:  299   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:  424   Comments: 0
Classic station scene, untouched years after the ELs demise
Title:  Classic station scene, untouched years after the ELs demise
Description:  The ticket windows at the Hoboken Terminal retained the EL atmosphere in 1982. Miss Phoebe would be proud.
Photo Date:  12/16/1981  Upload Date: 8/20/2011 1:32:20 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  259   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:  324   Comments: 0
End of the line
Title:  End of the line
Description:  The station at Gladstone, on the branch of the same name, originally the Passaic and Delaware, is a typical DLW structure, with the typical roof line and overhangs. Im there on a rainy January day along with a set of DLW MUs that has been coming there for over 50 years.
Photo Date:  1/31/1982  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 5:18:05 AM
Location:  Gladstone, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  115   Comments: 0
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:  288   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:  245   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:  291   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:  442   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:  329   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:  243   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:  255   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:  259   Comments: 1
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:  375   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:  361   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:  300   Comments: 0
DLW MU combine
Title:  DLW MU combine
Description:  The cars on the Hoboken based runs were primarily coaches, most dating from the 1930 electrification. There were also some other cars that were not as well known, among them several parlors and at least one of these combines. This one looks like it has been configured as an inspection car, judging by the light package. Even so, it will be out of service in a year or so when these lines convert to AC power.
Photo Date:  10/1/1983  Upload Date: 11/25/2013 10:20:01 PM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
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Views:  189   Comments: 0
EL station switcher
Title:  EL station switcher
Description:  Erie Lackawanna had several SW 9s that switched the Hoboken terminal. These units stayed on in that duty after EL went into Conrail and eventually wound up on NJ Transit. They got repainted into the ELs U34 scheme, but not til after EL was long gone. All youd need are some EL diamonds and spell out "Erie Lackawanna" on the hood, and youd have the perfect complement to the EL U34CH fleet.
Photo Date:  10/1/1983  Upload Date: 11/25/2013 10:09:37 PM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  NJT 436(SW9)
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