Conrail River Line in 1978

[erielackawanna]

Back to scanning and pulled the following three images of early Conrail out to share (all taken in October of 1978 along the West Shore - as my dad always called it).

First we have a shabbily repainted Conrail SD35 leading an unidentified freight through downtown Teaneck.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=328243

Next, a former Reading GP35 takes the RUSE-0 through Haworth, and passed the abandoned platform.

http://freericks.rrpicturearchives.net/ ... id=2104097

Finally, in an image I think I shared an earlier scan of, but rescanned to better results, a TV16a races through Dumont, north of CP13 behind some brand-spanking new GP40-2s.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=328245

Thanks for looking, and corrections are welcome.

Charles Freericks

[Noel Weaver]

MY GOODNESS!!!!
RUSE-0 on October 21, 1978 I was the engineer on that train that day from Oak Island to Kingston where we swapped with
SERU-1.
The engines in this fine picture were 3636, 1914 and 2747. We were on duty at 7:45 AM and swapped at Kingston at 3:15 PM
finally passed CP-7 (Bogota) at 6:15 PM and relieved at Karny 7:45 PM. A 12 hour trip but apparently not too bad.
Actually during the month of October, 1978 I was working a regular passenger job out of Grand Central Terminal on the New
Haven Line but I had weekends off much of the time. This trip occurred on a Saturday which was a day that I was not
scheduled to work. During that fall I worked Penn Station - New Haven, GCT to New Haven, Stamford and New Canaan,
New Jersey - Selkirk and ran GG-1's, E-60's, all classes of freight locomotives, M-2's and Sperry Rail Car. All of this while I
was a regular engineer on a commuter job on the New Haven Line. All over the railroad they had a shortage of engineers at
various times and it was a golden opportunity to make bucks.
Noel Weaver

[mainetrain]

Charles,
Fantastic as always. I saw that RUSE as I pulled into Dumont that day! Any more?
Looking back I had 2 problems. I didn't take good pictures and I didn't take notes!
Bob B

[erielackawanna]

Thanks, Bobby... Believe me, I had a lot more bad ones than good ones back then.

Noel, did I actually not respond to your post? I find that hard to believe, because I remember it and remember thinking, WOW. Well, sorry if this is a repeat, but thanks so much for both the information and the reporting on the amazing coincidence.

[erielackawanna]

Oh, according to my records, that RUSE-0 had a DIT NW2m, Conrail 9190.

[mainetrain]

Some fuzzy photos from days of yore

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archiv ... x?id=64425

[erielackawanna]

Cool... can it really be that long ago?

[Noel Weaver]

Oh, according to my records, that RUSE-0 had a DIT NW2m, Conrail 9190.

I don't have a hard card record for that far back, only my timebook. I have all of my timebooks back to day one firing in 1960. My timebook did not show a record of a DIT engine but then it wouldn't because timebooks were for pay purposes and usually I did not post events in them. Sometimes if something really big happened, I would write up a note or save the hard card record.
During the ten years that I ran Selkirk - Buffalo I did save my hard cards and still have them.
Noel Weaver

[erielackawanna]

Were you NYC in 1960?

My father was PRR then. He left the railroad, right about 1960 though (after a whopping three year long career with them).

[scharnhorst]

its these old photos that can be vary inspiring for modeling ideas. thanks for posting

[airman00]

Some fuzzy photos from days of yore

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archiv ... x?id=64425

That 3-caboose movement photo looks like all those cabooses were boarded up and headed for retirement.

[Noel Weaver]

Were you NYC in 1960?

My father was PRR then. He left the railroad, right about 1960 though (after a whopping three year long career with them).

I hired out on the New Haven Railroad in the mechanical department in 1956 and went in to engine service in January, 1960.
Noel Weaver

[erielackawanna]

He started with the PRR in 1957 in some kind of training program (he was a civil engineer). But he was out in Ohio the whole time he worked for them.

[mainetrain]

My guess is this a RUSE.

[erielackawanna]

Nice shot, BB.