Two New Jersey Transit E60CHs sit in South Amboy Yard on the final day of GG1 ops ever.

By August of 1977 the three remaining Penn Central E7s in North Jersey Coast Line service were real railfan favorites that everyone was trying to shoot. I, being 15 and using the commuter trains t... (more)

The classic manually operated crossing gates in South Amboy are lowered for a classic GGI puling classic P70 coaches while the Conrail roustabout with a patched ex Penn Central U25C pulls past a s... (more)

A recently patched former Penn Central GG1 with new New Jersey DOT lettering backs onto a New York City bound train from Bay Head.

After pulling off their train in order to make way for the GG1 waiting in the distance, a pair of Penn Central E8s pull across the manually operated grade crossing and head towards the engine hous... (more)

Nearly 40 years ago, while a 15-year-old pup, I got up early one morning and went into work with my dad. He dropped me at Penn Station Newark and I rode a Conrail North Jersey Coast Line train to ... (more)

With most of their units out working the day's two trains, the Raritan River Railroad's shops area held a single SW900 on the morning of June 15, 1979. Built in 1954, the old switcher looked prett... (more)

The DOTX E8(A) showed up in South Amboy at one point to help with the horrible shortage of working E units on Conrail's Bay Head trains. Here it is seen with corkscrew-less Conrail #4256, as the t... (more)

A former Erie Lackawanna E8, now a part of the Conrail numbering scheme, sits in the engine house at South Amboy awaiting its next call for a run to Bay Head. This was a "bad luck" unit. It was on... (more)

If ever there was a great spot for train watching it was South Amboy and its engine change. The NJDOT GG1 that brought train #3359 from New York City moves out of the way as a neat lashup of an NJ... (more)

Penn Central E8A #4253 pulls past the manual crossing gates that protected Augusta Street. Because 3300 trains changed from E-units to GG1s (or reverse) here, the watchman had to bring these gates... (more)

Two Penn Central E8As move towards the engine house after bringin 3312 in from Bayhead. A GG1 waits behind them to bring the train to New York City. The New York & Long Branch was a joint Jersey ... (more)

Engine Was A Former Amtrak Engine Notice Its Still In Amtrak Paint