Penn Central GG-1's & PC E8's on the NY&LB, 1976...

[@TheSubatomicCheese]

Great look back into the past!

[@pur4567]

great video

[@jackd.ripper9951]

Vintage Railfanning! I love it!

[@1jackdk]

Thanks Jack. Those were the days! Wish we could re-live it. Thanks for watching...

[@CharlesFreericks]

That's the South Amboy I remember from my first visits. Thanks for sharing.

[@1jackdk]

Thanks for the update. I new they electrified, but didn't realize they finally went all the way to Bay Head. Gee!!! When I was a kid on our yearly vacations to Ocean Grove. I remember the K4's big PRR Baldwins, and the double ended CNJ Baldwins. Wish I could go back in time with todays equipment. Thanks for watching. Jackmp294...

[@NJCommutr]

jackmp294.5™ Electrification ends at Long Branch. Diesel necessary between Long Branch and Bay Head. The newest locomotives are dual-mode. Thanks for the memories.

[@trekg13]

Oh my God, I remember these. Great Video. 5 stars!!

[@YoPhiladelphia]

Fantastic!!

[@generationll]

These are 2 of my favorite locomotives

[@buttercupthesweetnes]

Nice video! I sure do wish digital camcorders had been around for the past 100 years.

[@StephenCarlBaldwin]

Wonderful footage. Brings back the PC era.

[@ACLTony]

So enjoyable seeing classic American motive power in action pulling passenger trains.

[@TRRailfan]

Man, that horn on the GG1s...👌👌

[@ACLTony]

Cbalducc, the single chime "honkers" on the GG1s were the Leslie A-200 series. They were commonly used on EMD locomotives from the 1940s thru the early 50s when multi-chimers became the preferred favorite from most of the Class 1 railroads. Though hard to find, a number of the A-200 horns survive today.

[@Isochest]

Thanks for sharing this one:-))))

[@KaciCooperations]

Rip headphone users But I like how real audio was there

[@OhioRails]

so sad to think that probably everything in this video is now long gone.

[@1jackdk]

That was truly a great place. I remember when I was real young about 1956, we would go to Asbury Park every summer. There was no GSPwy, just back roads to the sure. I remember well the PRR K4's, and the big Sharks running the Long Branch to BayHead. If I only had a camera. Glad you enjoyed the clip. Take care, Jack

[@Hail2Pitt412]

Such A Beautfiul Video! The quality shows the old days and the true ways on how it was, the audio does the same! A truely fantastic job Jack!

[@julianheyward5467]

I love watching these old trains from the past, locomotive power.

[@smwca123]

The electrification was extended from Perth amboy south to Matawan by 1983, the end of GG1s, and still later to Bay Head in the 1990s.

[@gmp3699]

Very nice video! Its always great to see the G's in action.

[@1jackdk]

Yes I did, and many others as well... Thanks for watching...

[@renkn]

Spend many days back in the 70's as a kid watching the engine. It was great seeing the GG1 going past the old JCP&L bridge and the Augusta street croosing. Thank you

[@dpohunter]

Very few of the heavyweight cars that wore Pea Soup green paint received both Penn Central titles AND the mating worms; one shows up as the first coach on the last train shown. Great video! Thanks for posting this.

[@elrodjones]

Love the old CG's! Thanks for sharing.

[@BNforever2009]

Nice. Thats awesome to hear those E units roar again

[@mistersnapon]

Great clip....thanks for posting!!!

[@erikthepirate8068]

0:00 Looks like speed up and sounds like speed up.

[@cmans79tr7]

Great clips! Just what I was looking for! If anyone out there has 8mm sound of the NY&LB from Bay Head to Point Pleasant, I would love to see it. I remember the PRR horns sounding different than in these clips. They must have taken the nice horns off when they went Conrail. Sounds like they are giving a rasberry.

[@1jackdk]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. I can remember driving down to Ocean Grove as a kid. There was no Garden State Parkway, so we had to cross the railroad many times. I foundly remember the Pennsy K4 Steam locomotives until 1957, then the big Baldwin Sharks, and Alco PA's. Those where the days. Thanks for watching. Jack

[@cbalducc]

The horn on that first train sounded kinda like a creature from a 1950s horror movie!

[@rajappanpk9569]

Do you have any other.

[@gitrplaya4u]

lol this sounds amazingly badly amazing

[@fredstuckmann]

Nice stuff Jack, thanks.

[@cbalducc]

It was great to hear the "one-note" air horns. Does anyone know what models they were? God bless.

[@railroadskater2896]

The track at Centerville Rd Holmdel (a familiar spot), was'nt that CNJ's track? I thought CNJ was doing passenger operations during that era. Did CNJ and PC both use the trackage interchangeably?

[@RRIA_America]

You put the apostrophe in the wrong spot... It's Wasn't

[@GG1man]

@JoJoJopete I believe the insult was made by Penn Central itself, when they repainted those beauties in black with two mating worms as a logo.

[@1jackdk]

@free2rtmey NO. Its live sound. The guy that transfered this to VHS for me did a terrible job.

[@nyshortline]

Nice!! The ex-NYC E-8's I could easily identify because they had the horizontal twin-sealed beam headlights, Leslie Typhon horns, and no lift rings in the front. The ex-PRR E's had the lift rings, a vertical twin-sealed beam headlight and usually M-3 horns instead of fog horns.

[@Catnip11147]

This is a railfan's dream. Those trais sure were noisy back then! Thanks for the memories!

[@ACLTony]

OhioRails, it's not a total loss. Several GG1s are around, though unfortunately none are will likely be in running condition any time soon. A good number of streamlined and heavyweight passenger cars survive today in museums and tourist railroads. Ex New York Central, Pennsylvania, and New Haven Railroad cars are among the survivors.

[@tommyhunter1817]

Why is it electric locomotives have cabs on both ends but diesels don’t??

[@voidjavelin23]

most of the time electric locomotives are made for passenger traffic while diesel locomotive are made for freight traffic

[@WhyAyeMann]

Ive heard tell that these GG1's had a horn that could blow you out of you shoes!

[@TheZeke1974]

The first GG1 in the video sounds like a ruptured goose, LOL

[@Dan-lf6bo]

Back when Penn Central was actually a thing.

[@free2rtmey]

was that sound dubbed?

[@NJT4111]

very intresting, and accepting audio levels are fin, im just glad its not dubed sound like the proffesion movies, this is real! 5*****s

[@ProfessorIgor]

blat !!!!

[@GG1man]

@bnsfMAN93 Now you know why big oil made a PROFIT of $7,000,000.00 every hour of of every day, 365 days, last year. It will take a miracle to get us off that stuff.