Conrail train #3307 on the North Jersey Coast Line (fka the New York & Long Branch) picks up speed south of South Amboy New Jersey in the afternoon of March 30, 1978. The consist included two ratty E8As, what I think was an ex Santa Fe Budd car, and three Pennsy P70s. My memory is that the P70s did not last that long after this. I'd like to claim I knew what I was doing when I took this picture, but most of the other frames on this roll are blurry, cut off, obstructed, and wrong side of the sun. Somehow I lucked into this shot.
Photos of North America's favorite First Generation locomotives. EMD, ALCO, Baldwin; essentially anything that represents the OG wide cab diesel locomotive
Thanks largely to mergers and bankruptcies, New Jersey's commuter railroads underwent profound changes between the end of steam and the takeover by NJ Transit in 1983.
