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Off Goes the Santa Train |
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The annual "Railmen for Children" Santa Train departs Hoboken for Newark, The Oranges, Denville and Montclair with a trainload of children from schools all across the area. The children aboard this train are treated with gifts, music, food and a visit from Santa. The entire trip is made possible by the employee operated Railmen for Children charity and cooperation by NJ Transit who has been providing a train to the event every year since 1983. The equipment used and the people involved have changed over the years but one thing remains the same: The Santa Drumhead. This hand-painted drumhead has been affixed to the cab car of every Railmen for Children Santa Train since the very beginning and will continue to make its annual appearance for many years to come! |
| Photo Date: |
12/1/2017 Upload Date: 2/15/2018 4:58:44 PM |
| Location: |
Hoboken, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4527(ALP45-DP) NJTR 4514(ALP45-DP) |
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459 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Numbers from the Past |
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Today I was lucky enough to acquire a pair of number boards from a long retired and scrapped NJ Transit U34CH. While these boards are not the originals it was delivered to the Erie Lackawanna with in 1971 they still hold significance to me as these are the engines that as a kid blew my mind with their strange sounds and excessive smoke. The 4163 was one of the many U34CHs that wore its original "Blue Bird" NJDOT paint for its entire service career. It only received a handful of paint mods when its ownership was transferred to NJ Transit in 1983. These small changes included painting the the nose "platinum mist" silver and applying a large NJ Transit logo and the removal of the NJDOT blue arrow logo. The fate of this engine seems to be a mystery as to exactly when and where it was scrapped. It appears all that remains of it are these boards unless other collectors were lucky enough to get the horn, bell and the other two boards. I posed the two boards in some saucy afternoon light at HX Drawbridge. A piece of former Erie Lackawanna track this engine crossed probably hundreds of thousands of times in its career. In the background a modern NJ Transit PL42AC crosses the Hackensack River. Time will tell if the retirement of these modern locomotives will be a sorely felt by railfans as the U34s was. |
| Photo Date: |
6/29/2018 Upload Date: 7/25/2018 8:49:58 PM |
| Location: |
Rutherford, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4163(U34CH) NJTR 4029(PL42-AC) |
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558 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
A Nine Year Hiatus |
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Hustling west below the former CNJ Mount Hope Mineral Railroad is one of NJ Transit's Juniata veterans leading Train #853. After nearly nine years in storage between the MMC and Garwood it has returned to the rails running solo with a revenue train for the first time since December of 2011. |
| Photo Date: |
10/7/2020 Upload Date: 12/19/2020 1:32:20 PM |
| Location: |
Wharton, NJ |
| Author: |
Michael Sullivan |
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| Locomotives: |
NJTR 4218(GP40PH-2B) |
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257 Comments: 0 |
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