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PHOTOS: Picnic Trip

Posted by kp5308 on Mon May 25 11:54:15 2015

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Before we crossed the Delaware into Jersey to hit a picnic located in Basking Ridge, I figured on stopping by the newest tourist line in PA at their Topton shop to see if their recently refurbished switcher was out & about. ALLN #602 was built as EMC #654, Class SC in 1937. Rebuilt in 1957 by Steelton & Highspire Railroad to class SCm/900. After stints on the Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England Railroad and the Maryland & Pennsylvania, George Hart purchased it for use on the Stewartstown Railroad in 1986. Allentown & Auburn bought the historic EMC earlier this year from Rail Tours Inc. of Jim Thorpe:


After a stop at Morris Plains NJ:


We went to Morristown to check on the Morristown & Erie. This C424 was built for the Toledo Peoria & Western as #800 in September 1964. A year later it was heavily damaged in a wreck & rebuilt in-kind by ALCO. M&E purchased the 800 along with sister #801 from the TP&W in late 1983. #801 is now M&E #19:


Off to Union for a Dual Mode on the RVL:


And Norfolk Southern #212 with run through power:



Linden is close by so we hang out there for a few minutes & see Regional #93 pass by with a Toaster in charge. BTW all the DC AEM7s have officially been taken out of service but a number of AC versions soldier on:


I also shoot the only single level consist I'll see all day:


Hey, lets go down Route 1 to Rahway. A few minutes pass before the WB Crescent shows up with new power & a new baggage car:


And EB Regional #88 also went by with an AEM7AC up front. This months Railpace magazine has a photo of the scrapping of the first batch of these electrics. Kinda surreal, like when the GG1 fleet was going to the torch in the late 70's & early 80's:



Since we are so close we gotta stop by the Raritan Central at Edison. This SW1500 started out as Southern Pacific #2507 in 1968. Union Pacific renumbered it to 1100 after the merger & Larry's Truck Electric kept the number after aquiring a bunch of these from UP in 2011:


A quick hop to the Conrail Shared Assets yard at Metuchen:


Then the NJT Metuchen station:


Time to head back to PA. But we might as well stop at the Fogelsville Yard. Both the SD60 & GP38-2 are ex-Conrail:


A Roadrailer shot ends our weekend trip:

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