Heavy Northern New Jersey Rail Action (May 1980)
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Non-stop passenger rail action in Northern New Jersey (and a short diversion to Sunnyside Yard in Queens, NY) with NJDOT commuter, Amtrak, PATH, as well a little bit of Conrail freight, showing off likely the greatest variety of motive power and rolling stock ever seen in the region. Personally, this is my favorite film I've acquired in my collection.
-Locations-
0:00 - South Amboy
5:24 - Perth Amboy & Raritan Bay bridge
6:28 - Red Bank
7:20 - Rahway
16:44 - Elizabeth
20:50 - desolate Waverly Yard & Hunter tower
24:03 - Kearny Jct.
30:26 - Harold interlocking/Sunnyside Yard (Queens, NY)
32:08 - Metuchen, NJ
33:10 - Monmouth Jct.
33:21 - Princeton Jct.
33:41 - Trenton (Millham tower)
Пікірлер: 28
Glorious - GG1s, MP54s, E units, Conrail GPs, Jersey Arrows, Budd Metroliners, AEM7s, E60s, just glorious.
This is remarkable footage, especially from that time. Some of the best film of the final years of the GG1s I've seen.
I’m not quite old enough to remember any of this. Thanks for making this snapshot of history available to us.
At 28:50, seeing the rackety, 1920s-vintage EMUs of the old Erie Lackawanna in the same frame as PATH's space-age PA1 rolling stock is quite a juxtaposition of rail eras! It's incredible to think Conrail kept those antiques in service for as long as they did. The GE Arrow III units built to replace the "Edison stock" are now nearly as old as those cars were then, and, remarkably, still see regular revenue service on Hoboken runs in 2024!
Fabulous... just fabulous!
That's a great deal of action! Love those GG1's...thanks for showing.
Great video, wonderful memories. Thanks for sharing!
A truly classical railfan offering of scenes & locations I fondly remember. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the great video. 0:45 Those E8A locos have a classy paint scheme!
@RailPreserver2K
18 күн бұрын
Southern railway used them till 1978
Incredible variety! Wow! Love it!
These would be the last running GG1s. I think retired in 1982-83. NJ Transit ran the last ones. Man!!!.....do I miss them!!!
@RailroadMediaArchive
16 күн бұрын
October 20th or thereabouts 1983 was the last run for NJT. Amtrak and Conrail retired theres during 1979-81.
yes that sure is a good choice. It was great to be back to these tracks and trains again after all these years. I chased the Gg1s in 1981. Those were the times....Thank you !
So cool! See the Arrow IIIs looking so new brings back great memories of when my folks and I moved to Edison back in 1980. ....cool part is, I still ride those same A3s on my regular commute today.
@TheLordAI
18 күн бұрын
Was it known as NJ TRANSIT back then?
@MidnightAspec
18 күн бұрын
@@TheLordAI I recall the equipment being tagged with NJ DOT logos back then.
Another great video, thanks for sharing, from Germany
Fan-tas-tic❤👍🏻!!! GG-1s galore!
10-car Lackawanna EMU @26:26!!!🚈😃👍💯
The real New Jersey. I remember those GG-1s
Do you have any video from the former CNJ in that timeframe?
@RailroadMediaArchive
17 күн бұрын
Off the top of my head just this. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fJeMqpWbc5nchqg.htmlsi=QDUXG5SM1irBF2nl&t=1380
@BobGlassett
17 күн бұрын
@@RailroadMediaArchive Thanks! I grew up in the Plainfield area - flashback to my youth seeing coaches with windows that open and the branding of the time. How many times did they have to rebrand engines and coaches back then?
Next video more action but 1990s or 2000s
A little narration would be nice, dates, locations, operations....oh well, opportunity missed.
@RailroadMediaArchive
15 күн бұрын
The locations are all timestamped in the description.
I know i may catch some heat fir saying this but those GG1s were some ugly locos but ut is really cool to see the NJ Transit from back then looks like these are the passenger cars that preceeded the Comets id imagine them Arrow MUs mustve seemed so futuristic back then