These locomotives had a GG (good game)

3:07 hello Thomas

My best friend and I were also there that day! We were there from 11:00am to just before 12:30pm.

Awesome shots, How was this excursion

The final few months of gg1 locomotive operation on New Jersey Transit.

0:47, F40PH-2CAT Locomotive 4115. She’s now retired from NJT also. May they both rest in peace. Can’t believe this was 40+ years ago, jeez time flies. 😮 R.I.P General Electric PRR GG1 January 28, 1935 - October 29, 1983. Just realized that one of three locomotives used on the last run was 4877, which is preserved by the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey and stored at the West Boonton Yard in Boonton, New Jersey.

how did that thiung ever go around corners

18:54 classic 5 chime

880 is an SD24 IIRC

Very nice.

This was before the electrification was expanded to long branch

9:32 whistling for the crossing

0:08 sections of coal bunker were away. Ouch

No GG1?

PRR 4876 crash before it was repair but sold to pen central conrail and not but it was Retired but it survived and still around today at the b&o railroad museum

Interesting view of the scenery, but most people like to see the machinery!

This being Spring of 1983, at that time I did not realize what great things were ahead as the year progressed. 1983 was an awesome year. This was coming off an overall mild Winter, with the exception of the post Groundhog Day blizzard, which buried every place from Washington D.C. northward under 2 feet of snow. The Summer ahead was a very hot one. Many songs that were big in the Spring of 1983 were Overkill by Men At Work, Der Kommissar by After The Fire, Twilight Zone by Golden Earrings, Back on The Chain Gang by The Pretenders, Let's Dance by David Bowie, Ya Are by Lionel Ritchie, So Wrong by Patrick Simmons, aka Patrick Doobie, Something's Going On by Frida, and Family Man by Hall & Oates. I realize that I did not say anything about the GG1, which this video is focused on, but it is good to see a video from those days, and remember the music from then, which brings back great memories of those long gone days.

So beat up 🥲. it’s glorious days on the Pennsy just a memory

I remember this place well , drove overnight and the slept in my Pinto to spend the day shooting the engine changes , early 80's as I recall. G's to E's , what a great memory. Had the run of the place ; station , engine pit , nobody ever said anything.... Try that today...... Thanks for posting this !!

She’s a beaut!

I could be happy hanging out on that platform watching trains especially at night.Good video.

The video turns 30 today!

Looks like it would be fun to ride just for the views.

TM Books and Video did a really great job on making "The Great Train Story" video when they came to the museam around 2006.

Very nice. I love Chicago !

Thanks for the memories.

I was there chasing 765 that day, it was fun!

That's a fantastic document of SF at that time. I lived there most of the 90s (at the corner of Powell and Bush seen here!) and this video instantly brought me back! Thank you for posting!

As a kid in the sixties i recall that display, i think Santa Fe sponsored the model railroad. Good video.

Probably the best fidelity video and audio I’ve seen about a GG1

Very nice. I always find the spaghetti network of tracks in those stations amazing.

Very nice. Surprised to see a Bessimer REA car. How did that end up there?

I liked when that steam train was whistling, It was the most iconic train whistle in the world and some people use recordings of it in videos that might involve trains since 2000 to today. I really enjoyed this video.

Great video, well done!

The New York and Long Branch Railroad, where locomotives, motors, and rolling stock go to die.

I remember when the steam engine ran and then the G G 1 would go then come back to South Amboy and then go to the mu yard and then the steam would make the Bay Head run I was born in South Amboy and I was born in December 19th 1951

4876 is definitely my favorite GG1

My mother's Aunt lived on John St. I would walk up to the tracks crossing and watch the swap out whenever we visited her. '74-'75 time period.

Always enjoyable to see these busy spots.

Thanks so much for catching us with #SleepingCarBerlin and #BlueRidgeClub

Beautiful catches!

5:04 hey coach 301. Before it got converted to open air and scrapped in 06. Would be nice to see a replica of that car one day.

Man!!!!! She was a monster!!!!

Nobody thought a Big Boy would run again. All it takes is a lot of money....

I remember when they used the Baldwin "Sharknose" diesel back in the 50's through the mid 60s

Thank god they don't exist anymore! Because this would be my nightmare. I wouldn't want to experience a ride on a GG1!

Please upload this and stick with the original aspect ratio of 4:3. there is a HUGE discrepancy especially in the model train hobby about the size and shape of these engines, that is made even worse by a stretched wide video of a 1983 when wide screen was not a thing for video recording except maybe in a movie theater. The view at 1:35, 2:00, and 3:28 make this more obvious as well as I have a copy of the same engine and in the right aspect ratio it is not pixelated on the screen.

Great video thank you

on paper if someone could restore a GG1 it could still run on some parts of the NEC, Afaik the current owner Amtrak has not changed the electricity any and the overheads are still using the same voltage and frequency. I cant remember if NYC through NJ to DC is 25hz or 60hz

There is one or two of these on an overgrown siding in Cooperstown Junction, NY - just North of Oneonta (Big D&H town back in the day), along route 7 just past the turnoff to go to Cooperstown.