NJ Transit 1 Aug. 14, 1987

[@done-ahhh578]

I always forget NJ Transit had E60s because it was a bit before my time. Very interesting and unique loco otives.

[@superbaddy4]

4:20 *CAB CAR 5146!!! EXTREMELY RARE!!!* This unit was wrecked in a Head-On Collision at Secaucus Junction on February 9th 1996 and scrapped. You may have caught the only known footage in existence of it.

[@superbaddy4]

Well, I believe there are a few rebuilt Comet 2s still around, but unfortunately, all the Cab Cars are deactivated and are used only as Blind Coaches.

[@superbaddy4]

A Colorblind Engineer mistook a Red Signal, which caused him to run past it and collide with another train. Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions has a whole video on it.

[@superbaddy4]

As I said, one train was misled by misinterpreting a Red Signal. He was supposed to pass only after the other train had passed.

[@lennysvideoz]

we dont care

[@superbaddy4]

No need to be rude.

[@davidcolantuono3622]

Somebody build me a time machine. I want to go back to these good old days when NJ Transit trains were still awesome.

[@wwhhee]

+David Colantuono You're absolutely right. I miss seeing the GPH-40's run by. The new ALP's are nice but it doesn't have the same sound quality

[@thomasnativo6491]

David Colantuono I wanna go back to 1997 where born to see what the Pascack valley line was before the crossings where same but old and rusty same with gates and crossing bells the signal boxes where old I remember those days on the Pascack valley line going to MC DONALD'S and which the GP40PHS leave and cabcars coming from Spring valley NY to Hoboken terminal

[@thomasnativo6491]

wwhhee I was watching the Push Pull episode on Green frog productions and I saw NJT 4111 at Allenhurst station on the North Coast line had a nice Classical bell and RS3L horn on DVD

[@jkeeesssll4555]

I hate the new ALPs

[@cjw7329]

If they invented a time machine then I would use it to go back to these days to see how it was like back then coz I wasn’t born yet.

[@stevenbiffoni783]

Great show. I remember the engine change. It was a treat to see the GP40P and E-8 with the consist of the Jersey Builder (as they were called ) coaches. Also nice to see the MU's which may not be around much longer.

[@tonytonyv.957]

I assume the Jersey Builders originated at Newark Penn Station?

[@F40PH-2CAT]

Had too. I'm also surprised they were still in service as late as 87.

[@HOTRAILProductions]

NJT E60 #963 is ex-Amtrak, and appeared in Railroad Video's PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD GG1 production video, which was their first feature.

[@retroguy1976]

nice behind the scenes I take it the electrics swapped for diesels at south amboy

[@ENYoriginal]

To think that sometime this year 4101 will sound off a Leslie SU3L sounding just like what 4111 used to have, complete with its original Howard Brass Bell... This shall be very fun.

[@chrisw1647]

Believe it or not the 4120 is still in the New Jersey Transit fleet. I just operated that not three weeks ago.

[@hollowspike2337]

Yup, so is 4119

[@diegoarpino2080]

@@hollowspike2337standing in Denville station waiting for my NYC train, 4119 pushed the train to Hoboken before mine! Always great to see 4119 and 4120 still running

[@hollowspike2337]

@@diegoarpino2080 yet so weird to see the other F40s not

[@markemanuele1929]

Ah yes... The Siuth Amboy engine change.... That brings back many memories.

[@MikeJ2023]

Crazy those Diesel locomotives looks so old and I wasn’t even a year old when this video was taken.

[@unclej2763]

I hadn’t been around for several years when this video was made. By stating I still had to even be born just years later, I find this video to be quite interesting to learn about NJ Transit’s early and probably most successful days of the average person going wherever they could go on a NJT transit train.

[@mrg6103]

The infamous E-60’s.

[@Mnrr6131]

1:01 ah the good old E60

[@georgemurphy2579]

South Amboy The famous engine switch Toxic ground waste (from electric locos) 12-minute break - all the commuters jumped off and went to the famous bar (now closed - the owner was a millionaire) F40s had old HEP - Always at notch-8 - screamers! . . . They replaced them with CAT HEPs and they were quieter. Kean - was governor [ 'NJ and You - Perfect Together'] F40s and Comet IIs - perfect together Busy yard with hostlers and hostler helpers - now it's just a station

[@trainman927]

I like how the GP40 had a S5T

[@ENYoriginal]

That was their S3L. Split manifold at that. Only CNJ did some shit like that...

[@amtraker8171]

Old locomotives 👍👍👍👍

[@aostlund27]

Is it okay if I can borrow the footage starting at 4:45 so I can compare 4120 from then and now? I’m trying to make a comparison video since I followed the 40th Anniversary train two weeks ago.

[@tonytonyv.957]

Because the electrification ended here. In 1988 they finished electrifying the whole line.

[@cookode]

+Tony & Tony V. Well no, before 1987 the electrification was extended from South Amboy to Matawan. But it had to be after 1983 because they still had the engine change at South Amboy in GG1: An American Classic which was filmed in 83. However, not even the whole line is electrified today. The electrification now ends in Long Branch and the line ends in Bay Head. Long Branch electrification was completed in 1988. However, NJT can now offer one seat rides from New York to Bay Head using electric power with the new ALP-45DP dual power locomotives, which can either run as electrics under catenary or as diesels on non electric lines.

[@thomasnativo6491]

cookode I love 4111 coolest GP40PH comparing to the other GP40PHS on NJT . but RS3L horn sounds awesome . the RS3L horn sounds like a Conrail horn

[@thomasnativo6491]

Tony & Tony V. I wish 4111 Old horn came back I miss that horn so much with the RS3L sound and classical bell but This Locomotive seems more like an Penn rail Locomotive but it's still EMD by Conrail this year it's rebuilt

[@elperroazul9992]

Tony & Tony V. X

[@tonytonyv.957]

@@cookode thanks for the clarification. I recently discovered that error myself when I was looking into riding the whole line which I hope to do this year, and re-visit South Amboy which I haven't been to since this video was taken.

[@damarissierra1848]

South Amboy was low level and the platform was longer??

[@AmityBlightAndSP4449Fan]

Soon NJT e60 958 will be restored and also it will have a new speed limit and it will be up to 190mph and also it can reach from 90mph to 180mph and it will run from Bear Delaware to new London, ct and it will be restored next year on On Martin Luther King day at mid day and also the PRR budd metroliner #860 will be restored in the morning of Martin Luther Luther King day and also it will have a speed limit and it will be up to 195mph and also it will be a reliable metroliner and also it will replace the a fleets in the empire corridor and also it will be used in the Justin corridor and Amtrak's northeast corridor and it will run from Baltimore, MA to mystic, CT and it wil go from 85mph to 185mph and LET THEM BE RESTORED!!!

[@earlknightjr.4708]

ELIJAH I HOPE THIS POST OF YOURS IS TRUE! THAT WOULD BE A MONUMENTAL TREAT TO SAY THE LEAST! WOW! WHAT A COMING OUT PARTY THAT'LL BE! I HOPE THAT'S ON THE UP AND UP! EARL OF EL BARRIO NYC NY. SIGNING OFF. 11/24/18. 7:29PM

[@MSRTA_Productions]

they wont be restored

[@cjw7329]

6:30 that's an old CNJ GP40P before it was banned from the NJCL! Bc of its weight

[@Saxshoe]

Is it the engine behind the front locomotive facing the reverse direction? I don't know the technical term for it

[@thomasnativo6491]

I like GP40PH-2 EMD 4111 from Nj Transit

[@thomasnativo6491]

But I've seen this train on Green frog Productions called New Jersey Transit Push and Pull it was from Trains around New York and New Jersey DVD . So NJT 4111 Stopped by Allenhurst Nj station go to Bay head Nj

[@thomasnativo6491]

It was making a quick stop

[@anonymousperson9610]

At 6:27 what horn is that ?

[@ENYoriginal]

Split manifold Leslie S3L.

[@michaelwakeham3404]

Anyone know wat kinda car the i think it was black colored ones were tward the end , ive never seen those before im assuming they were older cars from before the comet series but just curious on wat model they were if anyone knows

[@jvohanian]

Most were secondhand coaches from other railroads; I remember seeing them as a kid in the late 80's but never got to ride them.

[@jvohanian]

Most were secondhand coaches from other railroads; I remember seeing them as a kid in the late 80's but never got to ride them.

[@thomasnativo6491]

I like the 4111 GP40PH-2

[@mr.conductorfromsts4204]

This is before NJT 4104 GP40PH-2

[@unknownexplorer6232]

There was a lot more rail traffic here Back then how come theres not so much anymore?

[@raritania7581]

This was still the transfer point, how Long Branch is now.

[@emilyindri1836]

I would assume the transfer between locomotives was what held trains up at the time. Since they don't have to do that here anymore, the northern part of the line has cleared up. I haven't ridden the NJCL all the way down so I couldn't tell you is Long Branch is backed up the same way.

[@F40PH-2CAT]

Even though engine swaps were done here by 1987 Matawan was where the wire ended.

[@javonbrandon]

Could the e60 locomotive pull a double decker car

[@StefanWithTrains]

No problem, I think that would be even better for the E60's due to them being built for heavy trains.

[@jvmilanesi]

why were they swapping e60s for f40s?

[@BritanniaPacific]

That's easy. The wires ended at south amboy. During the days of the Pennsylvania railroad, as soon as the GG-1 arrived from New York City, it was swapped for a steam locomotive. It soon changed to diesels, and nj transit continued it until the late 1980s when electrification of the line was officially completed.

[@NEFeldman]

All through trains to Bay Head from New York-Penn Station required the engine change right up to late spring/early summer 1988 when the electrification was completed to Long Branch. In 1983, the North Jersey Coast Line was electrified up to Aberdeen-Matawan where all Arrow Electric MU’s could terminate where there used to be a small yard there virtually replacing half of South Amboy Yard. Now, there are small traces of a yard that once existed at South Amboy. However this did not effect trains that either terminated at Newark, or Hoboken.

[@F40PH-2CAT]

​@@BritanniaPacificfrom 1982 on wire ended at Matawan. Electric trains used the old Atlantic Highlands branch to turn around.

[@annradomski8049]

thats odd

[@NJT7023]

Your camera old

[@tonytonyv.957]

Bought in 1983