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| Title: |
GG 1 ready to roll |
| Description: |
PRR 4920 awaits its next run toward DC or Philly at Sunnyside Yard, as seen from the Long Island RR. My dad took the photo on his way to work. |
| Photo Date: |
11/10/1964 Upload Date: 7/20/2011 1:59:20 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 4920(GG1) |
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1710 Comments: 16 |
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| Title: |
Journal Square |
| Description: |
A pair of GG 1s work at Journal Square on the ex PRR Passaic & Harsimus branch. The PATH station at Journal Square in Jersey City was a great place to watch the action, especially in the days when electric engines still pulled the freight. The GG 1 fleet was split among NJ DOT, which got 13, and Amtrak and Conrail. |
| Photo Date: |
7/18/1978 Upload Date: 9/9/2012 2:48:50 AM |
| Location: |
Jersey City, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 4808(GG1) CR 4854(GG1) |
| Views: |
1209 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
First long trip |
| Description: |
In 1978, I was 19 years old, working for a McDonalds in Queens while I was attending St John's University. One of the benefits was that even as a part time employee, I was entitled to paid vacation. This was based on average hours worked over a year. In my case, this amounted to 28 hours. At that time, Amtrak was offering a $10 return fare on round trips. Chicago was $61 one way, with the $10 return, too good to pass up. I took the Broadway west, and returned on the Lake Shore. Heres my westbound train about to leave Penn Station behind GG 1 4932. It took the train to Harrisburg, where it swapped out for three E 8s. The G performed flawlessly, and really ran for an almost 40 year old engine. The train even had an ex PRR twin unit diner. On the adjacent track is a Bay Head train, also led by a G, but only as far as South Amboy, where E's will take over. Except for the paint, not much has changed since the 1950's!! |
| Photo Date: |
8/14/1978 Upload Date: 8/30/2012 12:57:01 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Tunnel,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 4932(GG1) |
| Views: |
788 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
Headed for the shore |
| Description: |
GG 1 4883 leads a Bay Head train at Newark. It will swap for E units at South Amboy |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1979 Upload Date: 8/8/2012 2:06:54 AM |
| Location: |
Newark, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4883(GG1) |
| Views: |
430 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
View from a dutch door |
| Description: |
One of the joys of riding trains in the hand me down days of the 60s and 70s was that there were still a lot of cars that had been cast off from long distance trains. Most of these had dutch doors, which you were permitted to ride in, though Im sure the practice was officially frowned on. Riding in the vesibule did give a great view, such as this from a New York bound train, of a Bay Head train behind a GG 1. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1979 Upload Date: 8/8/2012 2:10:40 AM |
| Location: |
Rahway, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4884(GG1) |
| Views: |
424 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
All it needs is the lettering |
| Description: |
NJT 4883 was one of two GG 1s that retained their Pennsy appearance, minus lettering, until retirement. I believe the other was 4880, someone who knows, please correct me. This one even had a PRR keystone below the headlights. There was a fan in Jersey with connections to NJ DOT who had magnetic letters made up to spell out "PENNSYLVANIA" that he posed the engine with on at least one occasion. It looked SHARP in the late 60's Scotchlite image. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1979 Upload Date: 8/30/2012 1:08:47 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Tunnel,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4883(GG1) |
| Views: |
520 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Pennsy lives |
| Description: |
This keystone on the nose of NJ DOT 4883 lasted into the early 80s, as did the stripe, making it one of the last G's to have any vestige of its PRR days to haul passengers. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1979 Upload Date: 8/8/2012 2:12:22 AM |
| Location: |
New York Penn Sta, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4883(GG1) |
| Views: |
535 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ready to make the hitch |
| Description: |
The head end crew waits for their power to back down out of the house and tie on to take the train into Penn Station New York. Air and steam connections will be made, and off they'll go. |
| Photo Date: |
6/11/1979 Upload Date: 1/5/2014 4:41:26 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4880(GG1) |
| Views: |
596 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Anticipation |
| Description: |
The crowd looks down the tracks as the Amtrak connection to a Raritan train comes into view at the far end of the station. There were a handful of trains every day that had an Amtrak connection to New York, and honored first CR, then NJT tickets for the one stop. |
| Photo Date: |
7/20/1979 Upload Date: 12/8/2016 4:15:30 AM |
| Location: |
Newark Penn Station, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 4926(GG1) |
| Views: |
319 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Circus unit |
| Description: |
A New York bound Amtrak train arrives at Newark behind one of the red/blue/silver GG 1s |
| Photo Date: |
7/20/1979 Upload Date: 8/8/2012 2:02:55 AM |
| Location: |
Newark, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 4926(GG1) |
| Views: |
448 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Rainy yard |
| Description: |
A lone GG 1 waits for rush hour in NJ Transits Harrison yard |
| Photo Date: |
7/20/1979 Upload Date: 8/28/2012 9:51:01 PM |
| Location: |
Harrison, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4881(GG1) |
| Views: |
364 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Red, white, and blue |
| Description: |
A New York bound train rolls into Baltimore behind one of Amtraks "circus" units, so called for the bright paint job. I suppose it was better than basic black, but there had to have been better paint schemes. |
| Photo Date: |
7/30/1979 Upload Date: 12/8/2016 4:10:57 AM |
| Location: |
Baltimore Penn Station, MD |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 4924(GG1) |
| Views: |
370 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Triple threat |
| Description: |
A trio of GG 1s pulls up to the north end of Potomac Yard with a train it is doubling over. Sadly, it did not pull past my position while I was there. That would have been a real treat, to see triple slotted Gs rolling for Jersey. |
| Photo Date: |
7/31/1979 Upload Date: 12/17/2016 3:45:27 AM |
| Location: |
Arlington, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 4825(GG1) |
| Views: |
314 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Testing from shop |
| Description: |
A GG 1 just out of the motor shop in Bear Del runs on a siding to test repairs |
| Photo Date: |
7/27/1980 Upload Date: 8/30/2012 12:37:58 AM |
| Location: |
Bear, DE |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 4896(GG1) |
| Views: |
478 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
View from above |
| Description: |
A GG 1 runs a baggage car through Sunnyside Yard as seen from an IRT #7 train passing above on Queens Blvd. This view gives a good view of how expansive Sunnyside Yard was, even after the glory years of the Pennsy. |
| Photo Date: |
7/27/1980 Upload Date: 8/30/2012 12:48:26 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 4902(GG1) |
| Views: |
594 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Florida train |
| Description: |
A Florida train nears the end of its first leg as it passes through the Harrison PATH station on approach to Newark behind a solo GG 1, which was typical power for these trains in that era. The Hartz Pet Supplies sign was a long time local landmark. |
| Photo Date: |
7/27/1980 Upload Date: 8/30/2012 12:52:21 AM |
| Location: |
Harrison, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 4913(GG1) |
| Views: |
537 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Ready for rush hour |
| Description: |
A pair of NJ Transit Gs wait to take a train into Penn Station to load up for a run to South Amboy, with an ex Amtrak coach head out. Seen from a passing LIRR train. |
| Photo Date: |
8/14/1980 Upload Date: 8/30/2012 1:06:26 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4876(GG1) NJT 4884(GG1) |
| Views: |
605 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Saving Bonds G ready to roll for Penn Station |
| Description: |
GG 1 4921, with special lettering promoting US Savings Bonds, teams with sister 4901 as it gets ready to head for Penn Station and points south. |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1981 Upload Date: 7/25/2011 1:03:55 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 4921(GG1) AMTK 4901(GG1) |
| Views: |
789 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Rolling through town |
| Description: |
GG 1 4873 heads for the engine house at South Amboy. Note the metal strips on the air filter grille. These were to accomodate the pinstripes that adorned the Gs in their glory days. Also of note is the grade crossing tender's shanty at right. The gates at South Amboy were manually operated til the 1983 upgrade and extension of the wire to Matawan. |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1981 Upload Date: 1/13/2013 3:50:59 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4873(GG1) |
| Views: |
371 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Headed to the house |
| Description: |
GG 1 4873 heads for the South Amboy engine house after cutting off its train in favor of a pair of Es, which have taken charge and are seen at left. . |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1981 Upload Date: 1/13/2013 3:46:46 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4873(GG1) NJT 4253(E8A) |
| Views: |
551 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Ready to go |
| Description: |
NJ Transit GG 1 4883 is ready to head a shore train to South Amboy and a trade off with E 8s. It seems to have lost the PRR keystone it had below the headlight, but retains the single stripe, which it would have to retirement two years later. |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1981 Upload Date: 1/13/2013 3:40:57 AM |
| Location: |
New York Penn Sta, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4883(GG1) |
| Views: |
409 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NJT 4881 |
| Description: |
NJT 4881 rolls into South Amboy and an engine change to E 8s, passing a couple of local kids as it enters the station. |
| Photo Date: |
5/12/1981 Upload Date: 11/26/2011 11:49:20 PM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4881(GG1) |
| Views: |
523 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Pretty faces |
| Description: |
GG 1 4875 has cut off its train and pulled down past the switch to the pocket track where the Es wait for trains to arrive, passing the power that will take its train to Bay Head, oneof which is an ex Southern unit recently off the Crescent. Note the CNJ style signals. |
| Photo Date: |
5/18/1981 Upload Date: 1/30/2013 12:37:03 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Signal |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4875(GG1) NJT 4333(E8A) |
| Views: |
556 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Headed for the house |
| Description: |
NJT 4883 has just cut off its train and is heading for the engine house in South Amboy while E8's tie on for the remainder of the trip to Bay Head. Note the Keystone on the nose, 13 years after the PC merger!! |
| Photo Date: |
5/18/1981 Upload Date: 1/1/2014 4:47:40 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4883(GG1) |
| Views: |
353 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Almost a Pennsy unit |
| Description: |
Well, they all were...this one still has its single wide stripe, and if you look carefully under the headlight, you can see the remnant of a PRR keystone |
| Photo Date: |
5/18/1981 Upload Date: 1/30/2013 12:26:00 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4883(GG1) |
| Views: |
505 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Queen of the fleet |
| Description: |
PRR 4877 sits at the South Amboy engine facility after arriving from New York with a Bay head train |
| Photo Date: |
5/18/1981 Upload Date: 1/30/2013 12:32:28 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4877(GG1) |
| Views: |
508 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Making the hitch |
| Description: |
On weekdays, a gang of carmen were on duty at South Amboy to facilitate the engine change from GG 1s to diesels. Not so on weekends; the train crews were on their own. Here the conductor signals the engineer on the G to ease back to a hitch on this New York bound train. |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/1981 Upload Date: 3/3/2013 4:28:30 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4881(GG1) |
| Views: |
431 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rolling in for an engine change |
| Description: |
A Bay Head train rolls into South Amboy where it will drop the G and add a pair of E8s to complete the trip down the shore. |
| Photo Date: |
11/15/1981 Upload Date: 3/3/2013 4:32:09 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4883(GG1) |
| Views: |
377 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Gs in the motor pit |
| Description: |
This was a common scene on weekends at Sunnyside yard. |
| Photo Date: |
5/23/1982 Upload Date: 3/3/2013 4:34:20 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4881(GG1) NJT 4879(GG1) NJT 4880(GG1) |
| Views: |
737 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Bay Head train |
| Description: |
A mid day Bay Head train rolls for New York behind a GG 1, now in its last six months of service. |
| Photo Date: |
4/18/1983 Upload Date: 11/5/2013 1:05:25 AM |
| Location: |
Rahway, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4882(GG1) |
| Views: |
363 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
4877 |
| Description: |
NJ Transit painted GG 1 4877 into the Tuscan PRR Congressional scheme in 1981. Here we see it at Rahway en route to South Amboy. |
| Photo Date: |
4/25/1983 Upload Date: 6/12/2011 2:02:16 AM |
| Location: |
Rahway, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4877(GG1) |
| Views: |
844 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
NJT 4879 |
| Description: |
NJT 4879 pulls a short New York bound train past the PATH station at Harrison NJ toward the end of its career. This would be the last GG 1 to run, closing the show in October on a fantrip to Matawan. The PATH trains ran on the outside tracks here-note the third rail. That system was once part of the Pennsy empire, known then as the Hudson & Manhattan, connecting Pennsy stations at Newark and Jersey City with New York starting in 1908. |
| Photo Date: |
5/10/1983 Upload Date: 11/26/2011 11:47:10 PM |
| Location: |
Harrison, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4879(GG1) |
| Views: |
589 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NJT 4872 |
| Description: |
GG 1s could look quite imposing, as 4872 does arriving from New York with a Pennsy side train |
| Photo Date: |
7/25/1983 Upload Date: 11/18/2013 1:35:36 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4872(GG1) |
| Views: |
330 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NJT 4882 |
| Description: |
NJT 4882 has cut off from its train and is heading for the crossovers to access the small yard at South Amboy. Note the air filters still retain the metal strips used to paint the pinstripes from Pennsy days. |
| Photo Date: |
7/25/1983 Upload Date: 11/18/2013 1:39:42 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4882(GG1) |
| Views: |
550 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NJT 4876 |
| Description: |
NJT 4876 speeds through Rahway with a Bay Head train. This was the engine that gained notoriety when it crashed into Washington Union Station with a runaway Federal in 1953. It was cut in half and removed from the basement of the station to run again, which it did til 1983. Note the Pennsy car behind the GG 1. There were two subscription parlors on the North Jersey Coast Line, one that ran from Newark as part of the Jersey Central side of the operation. The other was a Pennsy car that ran on a New York train. Both cars ran an inbound trip in the morning, and an outbound trip in the afternoon, serving refreshments appropriate for the time of day. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1983 Upload Date: 11/26/2011 11:42:20 PM |
| Location: |
Rahway, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4876(GG1) |
| Views: |
495 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
4876 |
| Description: |
GG 1 4876 arrives at South Amboy NJ with a Pennsy side commuter train headed for Bay Head. This is the engine on the Federal that ran away into Washington Union Station in January 1953. |
| Photo Date: |
8/25/1983 Upload Date: 6/12/2011 2:00:09 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4876(GG1) |
| Views: |
892 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Queen of the festival |
| Description: |
For a number of years, NJ Transit hosted an event called the Hoboken Festival at the ex DLW station there. They would bring in a variety of equipment for display, not only their own, but M&E and Amtrak as well. The queen of the fleet, restored GG 1 4877, of course had to be towed in, along with all the other AC powered trains, since it would not run on the DLW 3000 volt DC power then in place. It still looked good. One has to wonder, had the Gs lasted long enough to make it into the AC era on the DLW, how they would have looked rolling down the three track main through Harrison, or pulling into Summit. |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1983 Upload Date: 11/24/2013 11:41:22 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4877(GG1) |
| Views: |
301 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Awaiting the torch |
| Description: |
The torch has been passed. Now these GG 1s await a different torch, the one that will put them permanently in their graves, at Harrison in April 1984. Interestingly, the lead G is the Union Station runaway engine from the famous Federal Express wreck in 1953, now going to scrap after a second life. |
| Photo Date: |
4/23/1984 Upload Date: 6/24/2014 1:27:29 AM |
| Location: |
Harrison, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 4876(GG1) NJT 4872(GG1) NJT 4884(GG1) |
| Views: |
765 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Look ma, no wire |
| Description: |
A pair of GG 1s that are slated to go to a yet to be established museum have been acquired from Amtrak, and are now sitting at the connection from the D&H to the old Cooperstown branch, at this time operated by the NYSW. I have a connection to 4932, as it was the engine I rode behind on the Broadway from NY to Harrisburg in August 1978. |
| Photo Date: |
11/4/1989 Upload Date: 12/14/2015 2:56:02 AM |
| Location: |
Cooperstown Junction, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 4934(GG1) AMTK 4932(GG1) |
| Views: |
822 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Long way from home |
| Description: |
The Central NY Leatherstocking RHS acquired a couple of GG 1s for display, which have been sitting a Cooperstown Jct for some time. Here we see them, along with the plaque noting their significance. On a personal note, Amtrak 4932 was the engine that pulled the Broadway from NY to Harrisburg when I rode it in August 1978 |
| Photo Date: |
10/14/2001 Upload Date: 10/26/2013 2:55:52 AM |
| Location: |
Cooperstown Junction, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
PC 4934(GG1) AMTK 4932(GG1) |
| Views: |
773 Comments: 2 |
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