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From: wjm@whuxk.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re:Diesel fan trips
Message-ID: <348@whuxk.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Dec-83 00:04:35 EST
Article-I.D.: whuxk.348
Posted: Sat Dec 17 00:04:35 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Dec-83 03:09:36 EST
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In the New York City area, the Tri-State Railway Historical Society runs
several fan trips per year.  I went on their trip up the Conrail West Shore
(the old NYCentral line up the west bank of the Hudson River) Line to Selkirk
Yard last spring.  Not only do I recommend their trips, but want to note that
they generally use modern rolling stock.  The last two trips have used NJTransit
Dieseliner coaches (stainless steel ca. 1960 ex-Erie-Lackawanna with electrical
head end power systems) and NJT locomotives (EMD F40PH-2's on the West Shore
Trip, and GE U34CH's on this fall's trip up the Erie Main Line to Susquehanna,
PA)
As mentioned earlier, NJT celebrated the retirement of GG-1's from revenue
service with their "Last Run of the GG-1" from Matawan to Newark on 29 Oct 1983.
(for the record, the service that used GG-1 motive power on the North Jersey
Coast Line now uses some GE E60's that NJT has purchased from Amtrak).
Bill Mitchell (whuxk!wjm)