Last N&W diesel heading to scrap

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The Electrification is now extended to Long Branh, right across the 
street from Monmouth
Medical Center. At the time of "The Last Run of the GG1" the overhead 
was to Matawan,
so that's where the change was taking place at that time. The K4 that 
had been at Horseshoe Curve and was restored supposedly was there 
because the NY&LB was the last places
they were run.

The engine change had become from GG1's to E8's, many from Southern or 
the odd
GP40 variant that NJDOT had bought. Now it's change trains at Long 
Branch for Elberon,
Asbury Park and Points South (RR West). 

And I remember the 'circus trains' of used GN cars, blue & green, 
operated by Conrail
before New Jersey Transit Rail Operations took over and straightened the 
mess out.
That took lots of government $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

And Ft Monmouth (also my Alma Mater) is due to close, maybe 2011. Then 
I'll have to
drive out to Navy Earle in Colts Neck for my 'services'.

Tom Cosgrove
Red Bank NJ, Norview '72 (both that school building and it's predecessor 
are now gone!).

NW Mailing List wrote:

> Not quite in the "Small World" category, but I spent almost two years 

> in the Army at Fort Monmouth on the NY&LB.  I'd try to get into NY 

> about two weekends a month to sightsee, take advantage of all the 

> wonderful show and sports tickets available free at the USO and to 

> ride trains and subways.  I rode suburban trains on most lines of the 

> NYNH&H, NYC, EL, CNJ, etc. and a few on the LI. Using a map for 

> reference, I rode into or through every station on the NY subway 

> system at that time.

>  

> To get to NY I could walk from the East Gate of the Fort Monmouth to 

> Little Silver to catch one of the few NY&LB trains that stopped there, 

> or I could catch a bus at the East Gate to Red Bank and have my choice 

> of PRR or CNJ trains operated jointly on the NY&LB.  Motive power that 

> I remember consisted of PRR K4 steam engines (sometimes double-headed) 

> on the /Broker/, with Baldwin shark nose diesels on some other 

> trains.  The trains to NY's Penn Station switched to GG1 electrics at 

> South Amboy.  The /Broker/ continued on behind steam to the PRR's 

> Exchange Place Jersey City ferry terminal. Some CNJ trains used FMs, 

> and ran to the CNJ ferry terminal in Jersey City.  This is from 

> memory, as I took few pictures, unfortunately, and my recollection is 

> subject to correction.

>  

> Gordon Hamilton

>

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>     *Sent:* Monday, August 18, 2008 11:57 PM

>     *Subject:* Re: Last N&W diesel heading to scrap

>

>     Hi Jerome

>     I'm a Norfolk native who lives on the NY&LB (Red Bank)! Small world.

>     Tom Cosgrove

>>     Jerome Crosson  (NWHS member who grew up along the NY&LB)

>>      

>

>     -- 

>     Tom Cosgrove

>     N2VFK

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>     SKYWARN Spotter LME002

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