A Pennsylvania GP7 speeds through South Amboy with a PONY EXPRESS racetrack special for Monmouth Park. My friend and I had been hoping for a K4 on this train but it was too late in the steam seaso... (more)

Alco PA-1 units 5753 and 5752 are waiting for a train from New York where two Baldwin units had been sitting about an hour before. There was a large variety of diesel power in South Amboy that day... (more)

Baldwin passenger sharks 5771 and 5783 wait at South Amboy for a North Jersey Coast train to arrive from New York behind a GG1. The mid-day trains were hardly long enough to rate 4,000 h.p. but th... (more)

K4s 5379 drifts into South Amboy with eight cars from Bay Head Jct.. There were three steam-powered trains in the morning rush with four months to go before the PRR dieselized completely.

Pennsylvania E7 A-A units roll into South Amboy with one of the long morning commuter trains from Bay Head Jct.. A friend and I had to leave Hackensack at about 4:30 AM on the first bus to New Yo... (more)

Sometimes there were other objects to take a picture of while waiting to photograph PRR steam next door at South Amboy.

Electric power switched out for steam, one of the last K4's does duty as a commuter hauler.

Raritan River caboose 7 and two others sit in the sun at South Amboy. This was a delightful little railroad that almost seems to have come from a child's imagination with red diesels and yellow ca... (more)

One of the RRRR red SW900 diesels sits at the well-kept South Amboy engine terminal. This New Jersey short line was a bonus to be seen when visiting South Amboy for Pennsylvania steam.

CNJ GP7s 1532 & 1529 head north at South Amboy with a long hopper car train of sand. PRR K4s 830 was sitting behind me on the siding awaiting a train from New York. GP7 1532 was leading the commut... (more)

Several K4 locomotives were sitting idle around South Amboy with diesels handling trains during the day. K4s 3752 sits in front of K4sa 612. The only consecutively numbered K4 locomotives among th... (more)

These two Baldwin shark-nose units made a rare apperance in passenger service on the NY&LB. A few of the 2,000 horsepower units had been repainted in the freight scheme, derated to 1.600 h.p. and ... (more)

This was the first time that I had seen K4sa 612 and it arrived at the engine terminal while I was there. The fire is being cleaned while 3807 & 5348 sit in the background.

K4s 3807 sits in a rare bit of sun that day at South Amboy. The locomotive appears to have a stuck bell. This was about one year before the end of all Pennsylvania steam.

K4s 830 leaves South Amboy with North Jersey Coast train 723 for Bay Head Jct..