Meet The Heritage Fleet - NJ Transit Rail Operations 40th Anniversary
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Since we weren't able to make the 40th Anniversary Express the prior day, we did the next best thing and got to see the locomotives at Hoboken Terminal.
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A nice day trip to the Hoboken, NJ waterfront on the Hudson River to see some heritage diesels and the rail and ferry terminal from yesteryear.
Thanks for bringing us along gents! It looks like it was a fun day for you and a good display of equipment. It reminds me of the yearly rail festival open houses NJ Transit used to hold at Hoboken Terminal in the 1990's and up through the early 2000's before expense and post-9/11 security concerns caused NJT to drop them.
A few add-ons. First, good narration job Gary! Very informative and enjoyable!
Second, the "Disco Stripes." I've heard NJ railfans refer to them as "Disco Stripes" since the 1990's, nobody knows where the term came from but when it arrived it stuck! Possible because NJT was born in the disco era? Those colors were certainly popular back then! Trust me, I remember!
Gary, I grew up in NJ too and never saw GG1's in operation either, they didn't go where I grew up. In fact I never saw GG1's at all until 1975 when I saw the Conrail GG1's parked at the Ivy City engine terminal in Washington DC, and even then I didn't know what I was looking at. Not being a railfan at the time I thought they were cool-looking old diesels!
Oh yeah, that gorgeous PRR E8! It's owned by Bennett Levin and his Juniata Terminal Company and it doesn't get out much now. It doesn't have Positive Train Control (PTC) installed so anywhere it goes on PTC compliant trackage it has to be towed. Bennett can't see the point of installing PTC in antique engines like that E8 and doesn't want to spend the money to do so, and I don't blame him. Oh, I don't know if anyone said anything but that stone eagle next to the E8 is a remnant of the old Pennsylvania Station in New York City which was demolished in the 1960s. A lot of the rubble was dumped in the Meadowlands, supposedly it could be seen from commuter trains for years until foliage overgrew it. Luckily it looks like someone had the foresight to save that eagle. I've seen pictures of others still around.
And it looks like Ryan got to see "his" F40's up close and personal! Cool!
Great video, and a FAST 17 minutes!
Thanks so much, wayne. Last time I was near the hoboken terminal was in the 1990"s when I worked for a company based in the erie lakawanna warehouse building at 812 jersey ave, a few blocks away, but we never ventured near the terminal because parking was non existent. Wish I had been more familiar back then. Now there is a park on the waterfront next to the terminal which, previously, had been a very large railroad warehouse in decay. The owners of the building at 812 told me it had been used to repair steam engines, it was blocks long, had cement pillars 12 feet in diameter every 12 feet. One of my duties was to escort the insurance people around 812 jersey ave so I saw much of it, including the huge water tower and pumping station and critical structures. When it was built, they were afraid of fire like those in san francisco, so bricks and cement everywhere and it supported steam engine weight. It cant be demolished, would cost too much. So disappointing that they didnt save part of the old penn station or, likewise, that jersey city main terminal which, as far as I know, sits abandoned and in decay. Gary
@@TheTrainboard Thanks for all that interesting information Gary! Yes, it's amazing how those turn of the 20th Century terminal areas were worlds unto themselves. Also sad how so much of it's gone. The Jersey Central terminal building still stands as part of Liberty State park but all the CNJ facilities that were once there are gone like they never existed at all.