SMS Rail Lines - Salute to Big Blue in Pureland Feat. SMS 1961
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2025
- On August 8th, 2020, I made my way down to Southern New Jersey to visit the SMS operations within the Pureland Industrial Complex, located in Logan Township, NJ. While the SMS is home to many different Baldwin switchers in different schemes, a few older GE B23-7s call this railroad home, including former BNSF 4211 in Santa Fe Blue and Yellow as I've seen before, and now this one, SMS B23-7 1961, which sports a new scheme paying tribute to the locomotive's first owner, Conrail. The 1961 was built as Conrail 1961 before being acquired by NS as their 4054. The 4054 went to the Delaware Coast Line Railroad until their liquidation at the end of 2018, when SMS purchased it and sister unit 4024. The 1961 is painted in a Conrail style scheme and lettered for the SMS with Conrail font as well, and is a spitting image of big blue. The SMS PL-1 crew is seen picking up empties from a few industries within Pureland, with the GE sounding as good as it looks as it performs switching duties.
Thanks for watching!
I took Amtrak from Philly up to Buffalo in 1990. (12 hour trip...) I saw nothing but these types of locos up there- lotsa B-23s & Uboats. Nothing but ol' Conrail. Great to see the blue again, brought back memories....😎🇺🇸
Great footage my friend, keep up the good work.. always love seeing any action in and around south Jersey 👍👍
Me too
It looks and sounds great! Love that they gave it the original road number back too! This was a real treat after a long weekend at work! Thanks alot.
How nice to see an old GE looking cared for. They seem to have got it sorted mechanically too, as it seems to be making hardly any smoke.
and no flames either!!
I’m happy to see Big blue in action once again and the engine looks like it’s been very well taken care of brings back back a lot of memories!!
Love the number boards!
Oh damn bro.
Now that's killer 🤘
I appreciate the engine history.
GE Quality. I had family work at the Schenectady and Scotia-glenville plants and the Waterford plant
Nice job on the video and back ground on the 1961 . I've been wanting to catch this since they painted her . What time of the day were you there ? Thanks for sharing .
That RS3L is hot
Grind those rails
Nice
Thank you for the video! Nice to see SMS taking care of these locomotives that used to where I live! Do you know when they usually run? Thinking about taking a trip up there to film them myself.
My understanding is they work a regular day, 9to5-ish. They leave the SMS shop & head for the NS/CSX interchange first, then work it into Pureland, pulling empties & shoving the loaded ones in. 5 days a week ? Not sure about that one, though... If you reach out to them, they might be willing to give you an answer. And if the B-23 isn't rolling on that particular day, you prob see Baldwins in action. YOU CAN'T LOSE !! LOL 😎
Nice video! So SMS intentionally copied Conrail blue?