Leading one of only two Comet I consists remaining on the NJ Transit roster, train 1212 banks into the curve beneath NJ Route 17 as it slows for a station stop at Kingsland. Two weeks after this photo was taken, this cab car would be pulled from service for its 90 day inspection and retired. The other remaining Comet I set would soldier on longer, but was officially retired from service March 27, 2009; ending thirty-eight years of service for this fleet. Originally purchased for the Erie Lackawanna Railroad by the State of New Jersey, the Comet I fleet entered service January 21, 1971 in new push-pull service out of Hoboken with GE U34CH locomotives. Since their retirement by NJ Transit in 2009, many other agencies across the country have found new life in the Comet I fleet; a testament to the construction of these Pullman-Standard built coaches.
This gallery contains photos of equipment and properties that became, were and used to be part of the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. This gallery also contains photos of equipment paying tribute to the EL or its predecessors.
