NJDOT / NJ Transit GG-1 Engine Change at South Amboy | Spring 1983

Old home video footage of the engine change at South Amboy, NJ on NJ Transit's former New York & Long Branch RR (later renamed North Jersey Coast Line). At the time relatively newly created NJ Transit took over the commuter rail operations from Conrail who operated under contract with NJDOT. All of the equipment made during this visit still has the NJDOT paint and markings on them. This video shows the last few months of this tradition of changing from electric to diesel locomotives that was a carryover from the PRR/PC days.
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[@stanleystempinski235]

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.

[@Gamble_let_me]

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

[@v8pilot]

I Ilived in NJ 1982-4. Several times I went to S Amboy to watch the change-over, so very nostalgic for me to see this, By then the GG1's were in poor shape with large and visible cracks in their frames. I rode on the last run of the GG1 from Matawan. I still have the art-deco style poster framed on my wall.

[@cats0182]

They put4876 back together after the Union Station and it ran for at least 30 more years? Bet you today's locos couldn't replicate that.

[@kennyjohnstone3174]

Thanks for the memories I was a fireman on the GG1 and E-8 trains off the So Amboy list . the engine exchange was one of my favorite memories.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Nice shots and sounds of a GG1 short of its and other remaining "G's" retirements. Having a video tape camera in 1983 was quite rare and an expensive investment. Thanks for sharing!

[@SiegmaDarius4876]

4876 is definitely my favorite GG1

[@earlknightjr.1341]

Mine are the 4900's!!! "THE BEST THAT MAN CAN GET"!!!! Remember, the Gillette Razor commercial!! Although i heard that expression before that commercial for GILLETTE!! Anyhow, America needs RAYMOND LOEWY TO BUILD A MODERNIZED GG1 with the same sounds it originally had!!! Plus the AIR BRAKE SOUND!!! And the SAME BELLS & WHISTLES, because they were the Alltime BEST!!!!!! What could top the GG1 HORN!!!!!! NOTHING TODAY, OR YESTERYEAR OR EVER!!!! Earl of ElBarrio, NYC,NY. 8:55PM. 6/24/24

[@johnhauser4589]

Actually drove both. The GG1 to Amboy and the EP22''s to bay head.

[@Conrailfan2323]

Amazing footage. Thanks for sharing! Do you have any more old NJT footage or footage shot in NJ that you'll be uploading in the future?

[@kennyjohnstone3174]

Thanks for the memories I was the locomotive firemen on those jobs 1977 to 1983 , when they abolished the firemen jobs . , bringing the train to South Amboy from penn station NY with the GG1 And my favorite locomotives the E-8 to Bayhead Jct and return , the engine exchange is one of my fondest memories.

[@stephenrichmond917]

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

[@thomasdowling6594]

The engine change maneuver ceased in what year?

[@dexecuter18]

Fall of 1983. Around the time of the film the testing of the Extension to Matawan took place. The real reason to do the engine change was more the fact that these older Passenger cars weren't built for Push-Pull so the train had to use Bay Head to turn around. The introduction of Comet IIs meant there was enough Push Pull stock do a transfer at Matawan instead of an engine change. But it wasn't until 1988 that it was extended to Long Branch and operations began functioning how they do now.

[@v8pilot]

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