Erie Lackawanna SDP45 3644 leads a westbound at Griffith IN, just east of Broad Street tower, in 1973.
EL Alco RS3 1021 rests in the Altoona dead line in the spring of 1977 along with many other Alco RS3s , RS2s, Baldwins and GP7s. The Baldwin in the shot was PC S12 8279.
On a cold February day in 1977,8 EL MU's pass by Hoboken Grove Street Tower. The the left, another set of EL MU's comes out of the tunnels. Photograph by Jim Marcus, from the collection of Colin K... (more)
Garden Staters. On October 7, 2023, NJTR 4120 (F40PH-2CAT) sits next to former Erie Lackawanna 3372 U34CH inside the building at the 2023 Family Day Events at the Meadows Maintenance Comple... (more)
The star of NJ Transit's "Meet the Heritage Fleet" event at Hoboken Terminal was not actually a current NJ Transit locomotive. "Erie Lackawanna" U34CH 3372 is in the process o... (more)
The recently restored Erie Lackawanna 3372 made an appearance at NJ Transit's "Family Day" event at the Meadowlands Maintenance Complex. It was posed indoors among other hardware and eq... (more)
Another look at EL 3372 on display at Hoboken Terminal during NJ Transit's "Meet the Heritage Fleet" event. The shiny U34CH looked right at home under the terminal's Bush train shed fro... (more)
History at Hoboken. Erie Lackawanna Railway (EL) U34CH no. 3372 (GE, 1970-1973) and Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) E8 no. 5711 (EMD, 1949-1954) are seen side by side during NJ Transit's 40... (more)
Erie Lackawanna U34CH 3372 and PRR E8A 5711 on display at Hoboken Terminal during NJ transit's 40th Anniversary event.
The former Erie Lackawanna/NJ DOT U34CH recently restored by the URHS in Boonton, NJ shares the spotlight with one of Bennett Levin's Pennsylvania Railroad E8As. The event was NJ Transit's "... (more)
Inclement weather was not enough to deter fans from visiting the URHS "Boonton Yard Open House" event where a cosmetically restored EL 3372 was unveiled to the public. NJ Transit was ki... (more)
Erie-Lackawanna U34CH No. 3272, recently repainted, shares space with NJ Transit's GP40PH-2 No. 4101 in the United Railroad Historical Society's Boonton Yard during a surprise night shoot with lig... (more)
Wet Premiere: Remnants from Tropical Storm Ophelia couldn't keep people away from seeing the URHS's spectacular unveiling of their repainted and externally restored U34CH. The locomotive is... (more)
"NJ DOT Revival"
It Really Is Blue. On Sunday, September 24, 2023, United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey unveiled a major step forward in its newest restoration project. GE built U34CH 3372 was p... (more)
Nicely restored addition to "New Jersey Transit Heritage Collection" sits on display at ''Museum For A Day" organized by United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey . Despite miserable weath... (more)
High green ahead. A westbound Erie Lackawanna freight is approaching Broad Street interlocking tower at Griffith in 1975.
EL eastbound freight sitting at Huntington, IN, February 1976. Ektachrome, photographer: D. Ellison, John E. Troxler collection.
Head End Power. At the United Railroad Historical Society of NJ for the first time during a night shoot in Boonton, New Jersey, former Erie Lackawanna/NJDOT GE U34CH 3372 (later NJ TRANSIT ... (more)
"Awaiting Restoration" Erie Lackawanna U34CH 3372, the last known surviving U34 in the world, sits inside the URHS Boonton shed awaiting restoration.
The Erie Lackawanna had a fleet of insulated box cars that were targeted for use at an on-line General Foods warehouse. Here one of these cars with a distinctive blue EL scheme rolls out of Enola,... (more)
A somewhat unusual Erie Lackawanna insulated box car rolls through Allentown, Pennsylvania. This class of car has an oversized off-center plug door.
Helpers on EL 3623 East move across Starucca viaduct on an October morning. Behind the ex-DL&W caboose, lead helper 7094 is a former Erie unit, while the 8454, second out, is former DL&W - both of... (more)
My father and I were on our way to upstate New York to catch NKP Berkshire No. 759 leading a High Iron excursion. We spent the night, as we so often did, beside the tracks - here along the D&H roa... (more)
The GP35 That Refused to Change This Erie-Lackawanna GP35 was stripped of its EL identity by Conrail, but a reversal of fortune compelled the forces at the shop where it was being ... (more)
An Erie-Lackawanna GP35 idles on one of the roundhouse leads in Bangor, Pennsylvania. At one time there had been a 60-foot turntable to serve the four-stall roundhouse, but by this time it had bee... (more)
It's the fifth day of Conrail’s existence, but things have not yet changed as a train makes a delivery to the Bangor & Portland Division yard in Bangor, Pennsylvania. One of the trainmen rides t... (more)
An Erie Lackawanna train makes a delivery to the Bangor & Portland Division yard in Bangor, Pennsylvania. The power is a U25B/GP7/GP35 combination that I believe has come from Scranton. The U25B l... (more)
Erie Lackawanna C425 2459 is in the engine terminal at Port Jervis, New York. The C425’s were sold to the British Columbia Railway before the EL became part of Conrail.
A January afternoon finds an Erie Lackawanna GP7 on the roundhouse lead at Bangor, Pennsylvania. Built in 1952 as Erie 1404, the EMD road switcher has about five years of service left.
Erie Lackawanna F7(A) No. 7151, former Bessemer & Lake Erie No 725, sits on display on the former EL right of way in Honesdale, PA. This unit was built by EMD in 1953. Interestingly, the unit wa... (more)
"The Floating EL Hack at Pier 66"
A former Erie Lackawanna Railroad caboose (also known to some as a "hack") sits on display at the Frying Pan; a former railroad float barge-tu... (more)
A couple of EL GP35 locomotives idle at the Huntington, IN yard office. John E. Troxler collection, Photographer unknown. Original Ektachrome slide.
My father probably never imagined when he took this picture at the Alco plant in Schenectady, NY that freshly built Erie Lackawanna C425s 2461 and 2455 would still exist 56 years later. EL 2461 i... (more)
A Gladstone Branch commuter train crosses the Passaic River on a trestle at Millington, New Jersey.
EL SD45 3607 sits on display at NMOT in Kirkwood.
On a damp afternoon, Erie Lackawanna RS3 931 pokes its nose out of the Hoboken trainshed as it awaits its rush hour run to the suburbs.
As passengers prepare to board for Hoboken, an Erie Lackawanna train from Port Jervis, NY, enters the station at Suffern, NY. An E8 leads a string of old Stillwell coaches that would soon be repla... (more)
After over twenty years of pulling commuter trains in New Jersey and New York, this Erie Lackawanna GP7 was bumped to local freight service when the U34CH’s were delivered. Originally Erie 1404,... (more)
Erie Lackawanna GP35 2565 brings the "bottle train" through Niles, OH past the old Erie Railroad depot on its way back to Youngstown, OH.
The conductor looks back for latecomers as a set of former Lackawanna MUs, forty years old at the time, prepares to depart South Orange, NJ, for the Hoboken terminal.
Erie Lackawanna GE U25B 2525, Alco C424 2405, EMD SD45 803 (Owned by D&H) and SDP45 3653 at Port Jervis, New York in October, 1972 No photographer listed on slide.
Westbound Erie Lackawanna TOFC/COFC train led by four SDP45's at Akron, Ohio in July 1975. No photographer listed on slide.
This last southbound run of The Laurentian on the D&H is being fueled and watered by shop crews at the station. It would be another three years before passenger service returned to the D&H with Th... (more)
The Delaware and Hudson leased four, Erie Lackawanna E8's for use on its passenger trains from Albany, NY to Montreal. The steam generating capacity of a single PA was insufficient for the cold ... (more)
Erie Lackawanna F7A 7111 (ex-Erie 711A), built by EMD in 1950, leads an F7A-B-A and a SW1200 lashup westbound at Marion, Ohio in September 1973. Photo from my collection, the photographer was not... (more)
54 year old Lackawanna MU's are on an NJT rush hour train approaching Convent Station, NJ. In one month the DC power distribution system would be retired along with all of the heavyweight MU's. ... (more)
An NJDOT U34CH still with her original EL "bluebird" paint scheme departs from under the Hoboken trainshed a few weeks after the Conrail startup.
A pair of Erie Lackawanna SD45s roll an eastbound freight through the yard at Port Jervis, NY, while a switcher works in the background. The oversize auto parts cars behind the power were destined... (more)
As dusk falls on a hot and hazy day, an Erie Lackawanna SD45 fronts three other EMDs on an eastbound freight at Hammond, IN.
Original EL. Before Norfolk Southern repainted its younger cousin, The National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri, undertook a cosmetic restoration of former Erie Lackawanna SD45 360... (more)
EL 3313 leads TC 4 at Suffern, NY on Oct 6, 1974.
In the mid-1960's my father took a number of photos on the Erie Lackawanna's former Lackawanna suburban lines in New Jersey. He was drawn there by the EL's use of former Erie PAs on a number of t... (more)
The Delaware and Hudson's "Laurentian" starts its trip to Albany and on to New York City as it passes through the Lasalle Yard in suburban Montreal. In the winter the D&H leased four E8... (more)
As they had been doing every day since 1930, a set of former Lackawanna heavyweight MUs comes to a stop at Short Hills, NJ, en route to Hoboken. The indestructable 40-year-old cars had more than a... (more)
EL 2569 on the point of DN 90 at Glen Rock, NJ, Nov 30, 1974.
EL 2567 on the point of PO87 at Prot Jervis, NY, on March 28, 1975.
EL 2560, a GP35, sits a Croxton Yard in Secaucus, NJ, in May 1974. Note the 40ft EL boxcar in background (blt 4 of 48 if Im reading slide right).
As a kid, I remember seeing Erie Lackawanna RS3’s when they were assigned as power on the Erie Lackawanna Bangor & Portland Subdivision. They had replaced H16-44’s that dominated the B&P since... (more)
Erie Lackawanna GP7 1237 spends the weekend in small yard in Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Griffith Junction in 1975. View west. Note the waiting five (5) man crew.
An Erie Lackawanna U25B and an F7 take their rest at the Port Jervis, NY, engine terminal on a spring afternoon.
A westbound Erie Lackawanna freight behind an SD45/SDP45 lashup prepares to depart Port Jervis, NY, for a run up the Delaware Valley. The EL bought a batch of SDP45s minus passenger steam boilers ... (more)
On a quiet weekend morning, Erie Lackawanna RS-3 952 and assorted coaches await the Monday rush hour in the small layover yard at suburban Spring Valley, NY.
EL 2573 leads NY84 at Amolamink,PA, just prior to derailing several miles later, May 27, 1976.
A pair of Erie Lackawanna/NJDOT U34CHs and their trains await the evening rush hour at Hoboken Terminal. The big U-boats handled all diesel trains out of Hoboken at the time.
A set of ageless Erie Lackawanna MUs pose beneath the trainshed of Hoboken Terminal, a regular sight for more than fifty years that is now becoming a long-ago memory.
Alco C-425 EL 2458 leads a westbound merchandise train at Waldwick, NJ, Oct 5, 1974. Who knew just how special this would be looking back 45 years!!!
EL 2505 running long hood forward (and with EL lettering above the maroon stripe), at Ridgewood Jct, NJ, Jan 1974.
EL 2504, a U25B, with a rail grinder train, at HoHoKus, NJ. Note the 6 axle ex steam tendor still being used, April 1975.
EL GP-7s 1401 and 1403 lead the Port Jervis bound commuter train westbound at Ridgewood Jct, NJ, during July 1974.
EL 2452, an Alco C-425, sits at Croxton Yard, Secaucus, NJ, on Sept 15, 1974.
EL 1273 along with 2 EL F units still in service, at Burwick, PA. April 26, 1975.
EL 1025 at the sanding tower, Croxton Yard, Secacus, NJ during January, 1976.
EL 922 at Croxton Yard, Secacus, NJ during January, 1976.
EL 1227 with EL Caboose C125 at Croxton Yard in Secaucus, NJ, Sep 1974.
EL E8 #825 leads the Port Jervis bound passenger train at Ramsey, NJ, May 1974
The last eastbound run of E8s and Stillwell coaches is led by EL 829, 816, and 825 at Ridgewood Jct, NJ on Sep 14, 1974 with 15 cars in tow. The train brought all the equipment from Port Jervis o... (more)
