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Nov 25, 2017 11:39:58 #
In 1969, I was a first year grad student at Cornell University. I felt that driving back to Indiana for just four days {20 hours of which would be spent driving} didn't make much sense, so I visited my Uncle and Aunt who lived in New Jersey. On that Saturday, I did touristy things, including touring the campus of Princeton University. Princeton is just a few miles from what is now known as Amtrak's "Northeast Corridor", so they have a shuttle between their campus and a small station on the ""Corridor" line. Here are a couple of pictures I took then.
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Nov 25, 2017 11:58:27 #
bpulv
Loc: Buena Park, CA
rehess wrote:
In 1969, I was a first year grad student at Cornel... (show quote)
Rehess,
As both a photographer and a railfan, I appreciate you sharing this.
P.S.: My daughter is also a Cornell alumn. Go Big Red!
Nov 25, 2017 12:21:32 #
rehess wrote:
In 1969, I was a first year grad student at Cornel... (show quote)
Cool photos. Wow electric rail!??? We had electric in the L.A. area until around 1960, then the commuter trains went away in favor of automobiles and buses running gasoline. Now we have electric and diesel commuter trains again but now California has some 50 million registered vehicles on the roads!
Nov 25, 2017 12:35:55 #
bpulv wrote:
Rehess,
As both a photographer and a railfan, I appreciate you sharing this.
P.S.: My daughter is also a Cornell alumn. Go Big Red!
As both a photographer and a railfan, I appreciate you sharing this.
P.S.: My daughter is also a Cornell alumn. Go Big Red!
Thank you for expressing your appreciation.
You'll notice the round windows on the end of the cars. My understanding is that was typical of cars built for the Pennsylvania Railroad, including subsidiaries such as the Long Island Railroad.
Nov 25, 2017 12:41:39 #
lamiaceae wrote:
Cool photos. Wow electric rail!??? We had electric in the L.A. area until around 1960, then the commuter trains went away in favor of automobiles and buses running gasoline. Now we have electric and diesel commuter trains again but now California has some 50 million registered vehicles on the roads!
Yes, the entire Northeast Corridor is electrified.
Since the South Shore Railroad here is electrified,
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-416539-1.html
electrified railroads have always been special to me.
Nov 25, 2017 12:57:52 #
bpulv
Loc: Buena Park, CA
lamiaceae wrote:
Cool photos. Wow electric rail!??? We had electric in the L.A. area until around 1960, then the commuter trains went away in favor of automobiles and buses running gasoline. Now we have electric and diesel commuter trains again but now California has some 50 million registered vehicles on the roads!
Actually, most of the Northeast Corridor has been electrified since before WWII. The equipment shown in the photos were quite typical of the time and similar to the equipment used on the Pacific Electric Red Cars. The most famous of the locomotives from 1939 through the 60's on the Corridor was the General Electric GG1 (see picture), which were used by NYC, Erie, New Heaven and Pennsylvania RR. Today, most of the Amtrak trains on the Corridor, including the Acela high speed trains, are electric.
I am also from Southern California. If you are interested in railroads and railroad photography, I would suggest that you spend a day or two at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. Also, if you get to the east coast, the Baltimore and Ohio Museum in Baltimore, MD and the Pennsylvania State RR Museum in Strasburg, PA (where I photographed the GG1) have some of the best and well maintained exhibits in the country.
Pennsylvania RR GG1 Electric Locomotive
Nov 25, 2017 13:32:26 #
rehess wrote:
Thank you for expressing your appreciation.
You'll notice the round windows on the end of the cars. My understanding is that was typical of cars built for the Pennsylvania Railroad, including subsidiaries such as the Long Island Railroad.
You'll notice the round windows on the end of the cars. My understanding is that was typical of cars built for the Pennsylvania Railroad, including subsidiaries such as the Long Island Railroad.
Thank you for the 'Port hole" window information. I wasn't aware that was maybe a Penna. RR. exclusive.
Some of the North East electrified equipment became well traveled. I saw this car (312) in Benson Arizona around '98. It was originally a Delaware Lackawanna & Western [DL&W], sold to the Blue Mountain and was on its way to the Orange Empire Railroad Museum in California. As an aside, considering the number of times I rode the "Delay, Linger and Wait" it is possible I sat in that very car.
Nov 25, 2017 14:55:16 #
bpulv wrote:
Actually, most of the Northeast Corridor has been ... (show quote)
I actually saw a GG-1 running, as it blew past me at Princeton Jct. I have photographed two of them, but I can't seem to locate the picture I took in Pennsylvania. The NYC Museum in nearby Elkhart IN is said to have one too - lettered for NJ Transit - but I haven't gotten around to going there yet.
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Nov 25, 2017 15:07:56 #
bpulv
Loc: Buena Park, CA
Rich1939 wrote:
Thank you for the 'Port hole" window informat... (show quote)
Here are a few snapshots of a working Pacific Electric "Blimp" #318 built in 1913 that I took a ride on at the Orange Empire RR Museum a few years ago. They are actually rejected photos, but they will give you an idea of what it was like.
Pacific Electric #418
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#418 Interior
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Motorman
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Motorman's View
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Fair meter at end of car
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Nov 25, 2017 15:21:49 #
bpulv wrote:
Here are a few snapshots of a working Pacific Electric "Blimp" #318 built in 1913 that I took a ride on at the Orange Empire RR Museum a few years ago. They are actually rejected photos, but they will give you an idea of what it was like.
Thank you for those. A friend is a volunteer there, I'll commend him on the condition of the Blimp although he does more of the grunt work, leaving finish to others.
Nov 26, 2017 06:34:28 #
Nov 26, 2017 06:47:18 #
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Loc: S.W.Florida
Princeton station recently was moved a bit east. That short line is an interesting ride. It crosses the old D&R Canal.
Nov 26, 2017 10:30:07 #
I hired on the Penn Central April of 1974 as a trainman / conductor out of Penn Station New York. At that time the entire corridor was electrified except south of South Amboy on the South Jersey Shore Line to Bayhead.
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Dec 7, 2017 17:09:26 #
bpulv wrote:
Here are a few snapshots of a working Pacific Electric "Blimp" #318 built in 1913 that I took a ride on at the Orange Empire RR Museum a few years ago. They are actually rejected photos, but they will give you an idea of what it was like.
Good set.
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