VJB collection

A GG1 glides through Elizabeth with a Philadelphia-bound "Clocker".

The Pennsy's Keystone makes a station stop at Elizabeth. This train consisted of specially built cars with low centers of gravity to allow for higher speeds on curves. The date is in question since this scan was made from a duplicate slide. If anyone has more information on this train or knows the disposition of the equipment, please post a comment.

Long Island commuter club car "Syosset" at Jamaica in 1971. This was the first Syosset - built by Pullman in 1924 to plan 3410 as 12 section/1 drawing room sleeping car "McEwen." Wrecked 1973 and retired.

EL often pressed their commuter service passenger Geeps into freight service on the weekends. Here, four of them work a westbound freight. EL 1403 was later CR 5922.

A westbound extra passes the tower at Joliet. GM&O 909 later became ICG/IC 6058, was scrapped at Homewood, IL 9/2010.

WM Alcos congregate on the whisker tracks at Hagerstown. In less!than a year, the two FAs would become "carbody power cars" on the Long Island RR; WM 304 would be LIRR 608 and WM 301 would be LIRR 609.

Four Frisco Fs handle freight past the Southern passenger depot in Brimingham

A Carman with a crescent works the Southern Crescent at Birmingham.

Power for the Southern Crescent lays over in Birmingham.

EB D&H train passes R tower and enters the yard at Allentown.

Power for a WB freight pulls out onto the main and clears the interlocking prior to backing down onto his train.

An eastbound CNJ Raritan line train in "push" mode at the Bound Brook depot. CNJ 3683 was later CR/NJTR 4112, NJTR 4108.

An eastbound passenger train in "push" mode passes the caboose of a local freight working at Bound Brook.

Old and new at Hoboken Terminal. What was then new is gone now, too!

EL E8A 823 departs Hoboken with a Port Jervis train.

A pair of leased BAR Geeps works freight in what I believe is LIRR's "A" yard in Long Island City.

A pair of BAR Geeps works a LIRR freight train on the Montauk Branch in Forest Park, Queens, NY.

A pair of Long Island RS2s works a ballast train through Forest Park on the Montauk Branch. LI 1520 was originally D&H 4020, later became Detroit & Mackinac 977.

Squeak RS1 crosses the Overpeck Creek drawbridge.

A short eastbound freight behind Chessie power on the once-proud CNJ four-track mainline at Elizabeth. B&O 3710 was later GATX 3710, then rebuilt to GP39H-2 MARC 74. Date of photo approximate.

A venerable RS3 does the honors on this Reading freight departing the west end of the yard.

Reading 5300 was named "Rocket II" - later became Conrail 6753.

Susquehanna 240 on the Overpeck Creek drawbridge. Date approximate.

A B-unit leads this coal train.

It's the "Bay Head Empire Builder!"

Straight electric and diesel-electric team up on this eastbound as two GG1s and two SD35s drag through the S-curve at Elizabeth.

Most of the L&HR roster congregates outside the shop. Amazingly enough, three of these four units are extant in 2010; L&HR 24 as A&M 54, L&HR 27 as LNAC 850, and L&HR 29 as A&M 58.

EB CNJ freight waits for permission to enter Elizabethport yard.

Old and new at Hoboken Terminal. Of course, what was new then is gone now, too!

Long Island Alco "power car" 615 was rebuilt from BN FA-1 4116, ex-SP&S 864, nee-GN 442A. She later became SPAX 615. Shown here leaving the Hunterspoint Avenue station less than two months after entering service on LIRR.

GG1s congregate at Elizabeth

An eastbound freight passes the cab car of the Bayonne shuttle at Elizabeth. B&O 7440 was later IC/ICG 2040, NREX 2040.

View from beneath the manually operated crossing gates, as a pair of CNJ SD40s brings a SB freight through South Amboy. CNJ 3068 was later Conrail 6292, EMDX 6410, FURX 3041.

Reading SD45 7600 works a short eastbound freight on the once-proud CNJ four track mainline at Elizabeth. She would later become CR 6100 and C&NW 6558.

Two of Raritan River's six SW900s on the interchange track at South Amboy. These units later became Conrail 8659 and 8660.

A pair of EL SD45s with eastbound tonnage on the Boonton/Greenwood Lake line.

Lehigh Valley RS11 7642 was originally Pennsy 8642.

Jacksonville Terminal SW900 was later SCL 232.

Amtrak's Champion departs Jacksonville behind E-units of SCL, UP and B&O ancestry.

Four LIRR C420s smoke it up through Bay Shore, NY with a Sunday afternoon Montauk-bound train. This was a regular power balancing move to place locomotives at outlying points ready for Monday morning commuter runs. LI 216 was later Roberval & Saguenay 36.

Three LIRR C420s and a leased BAR GP7 pass Union Hall Street station with a Sunday afternoon Montauk-bound train. This was a regular power balancing move to place locomotives at outlying points ready for Monday morning commuter runs. LIRR parlor car "Merrick" first out was formerly New Haven 14-4 sleeper "City Point".

Three LIRR C420s and a leased BAR GP7 pass Union Hall Street station with a Sunday afternoon Montauk-bound train. This was a regular power balancing move to place locomotives at outlying points ready for Monday morning commuter runs.

Eastbound LV with three RS11s and a GP18 at Bound Brook. LV 400 was later Conrail 7609.

This is actually LI 417:2. LI 417:1's carbody was scrapped 1970, engine and generator installed in LI 406:1 carbody which became LI 417:2. (The b/d and b/n given are for LI 406) Sold 6/16/77 to Naporano Iron & Metal and last known (2009) to be sitting derelict outside the former D&H Colonie (NY) shops as NIMX 417.

LI 419 was sold 6/16/1977 to Naporano Iron & Metal and survives today as FCCX (Farmers Commission Company) 419 at Upper Sandusky, OH.

LI 1558 is on borrowed time as she heads east past Union Hall Street station with an Oyster Bay-bound push pull trainset. She suffered a fire 6/74 and was later scrapped.

An EB B&O freight running on the Jersey Central ducks under the Pennsy mainline at Elizabeth.

LI 415 was sold for scrap to NI&M, scrapped at Morris Park 4/76.

CNJ 3067 in the "Coast Guard" scheme leads a westbound freight at Bound Brook.