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Posted by Jersey Mike on Tue May 6 00:22:42 2025 NJT has been on a roll with heritage and other special paint schemes, so when they painted up one of the GP40PH-2B's in Erie colors where better to send it than the Atlantic City Line due to its historic connection to the Erie-Lackawanna Seashore Lines. The fun part was while I was aware of the Erie Geep being out an about, the two times I encountered it were entirely be accident and the one time I did try to catch it, I came up empty handed. Anyway, the spring of 2024 also involved a good bit of NEC travel so I wrapped that into the same photo bundle ( mirror ).The first part of this photo set actually begins as an extension of the last one as I had broken up my return to Baltimore with a stop off in Philly. Here we have rebuilt PATCO car #1080 at Haddonfield station as I traveled to Philly to catch Amtrak Regional train #121.  Upon boarding I discovered that Train #121 was one of the "quick turn" sets running with a Metroliner cab car (#9646) at one end. These were implemented to add NEC Regional trips without needing additional equipment by turning some NY to DC Regionals in the station instead of looping or wyeing them in the yard. Upon departing Philly we actually encountered a northbound push-pull Regional with a pair of ACS-86 locomotives including Veterans unit #642.   Normally I would be thrilled at getting a front facing window on the NEC, however the quality of the forward facing view was marginal at best. I did grab two reasonable videos of the BELL flyover and the line south of Baltimore's B&P Tunnels. Needless to say #9646 looked a lot better from the outside on a lovely spring morning, like here at the BWI Airport rail station.  A few days later I was back in South Jersey for Easter and during some free time I popped down to Atco to grab photos of the NJT Atlantic City Line milepost 17 intermediate signal just north of the station there. This was my first surprise encounter with Erie heritage GP40PH-2B #2010, which was running with Comet V cab car #6011.    During Easter dinner I actually popped out to try and catch #4210 again, but all I got for my effort was this photo of Comet V cab car #6057.  Later that same week I was making yet another round trip to Philly, this time by Amtrak instead of driving. Due to some scheduling quirks I had to first go to Washington, DC Union Station for an Acela departure via MARC split level cab car #8056.  Amtrak ACS-86 #613 was hanging out on DC Union track #16 which is better known for hosting the Capital Limited sets.  Departing near peak period allowed me this view of 6 MARC cab cars all lined side-by-side for the rush of returning commuters. The group includes #8050, #8049, #7851, #8048, #7845 and #7856.  Lead Amtrak Acela power car #2000 sits next to #2024 on tracks #18 and 19.  Amtrak ACS-86 #616 doing the power change in front of the REA building.  Vestibule of SEPTA Silverliner IV #413 with a full set of destination signs.  Despite it being only 8pm I found that SEPTA had closed the north side of the 8th and Market station complex forcing PATCO to install gates to lock out that end of the station.  In 2024 private equity was making a play for control of NS and the company was putting a full court press on even small shareholders to vote against the evil slate of board members. Unfortunately sending out materials featuring the failed C40-8.5W rebuild unit #8511 might not have been the best strategy.  Remember what I said about catching Erie #4210 when not trying to? Well here it is again behind cab car #6011 in the Haddonfield trench as I was waiting for a PATCO train back to Philly.   That PATCO ride was courtesy rebuild car #1009.  Silverliner V #703 at Market East.   Well I'm out of content for this week. Check back next time for my second trip to the Connecticut River valley in as many months to catch the 2024 solar eclipse in upstate Vermont. |
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