Lets all raise our pantographs and toast the New Year.
Happy New Year, 1951 PRR style. Ansco color/color corrected in P/S PRR Class GS4.
Companion shot to #169990. This location was PRR Hunter St. Yard, a produce terminal, hence the paved area trackside. It was used for car storage and MOW in later years. Today, Amtrak uses this ... (more)
Built in March of 1950, the Alco-GE "More Power for America" locomotive is being set up for display at Newark. 6 years later had GE divorced Alco and started making their own line of products, so... (more)
A now historic shot (with the reconstruction of the station) of a westbound MidTOWN Direct to Dover passing a Hoboken bound Arrow train at Newark Broad Street.
Looking sharp in NS livery, this SD45-2 saw long haul action (note larger fuel tanks) for Conrail and Erie Lackawanna.
This camelback B3b 0-6-0 worked the 8-mile CNJ Newark Branch , near the Ironbound section and the docks, was retired in 1953. Ansco color, color corrected in P/S
Geep 38-2 and turntable at Oak Island.
SR 3046 was one of a batch of SD-35's sent to Naporano's for scrap. A few of them, including this one, arrived without fuel tanks.
In 1984, four CR GP-40's on a TV train was business as usual (i.e. boring). Now I'm glad I took the shot. TV-62 enters the west end of Oak Island on a clear Indian Summer day.
This C39-8, along with two other C39-8's and a Dash 7 await the scrapper's torch just outside of Metal Management.
A former SSW SD-45, the HLCX 9005, now designated SD40M-2, basks in the sunlight of an early spring day.
Freshly painted 4425 and faded blue 3026 pick up a string of cars.
CP power lays over in Oak Island Yard.
A yet-to-be-painted CSX ES-44-DC at Oak Island yard. 30DEC2005