Conrail's Passenger Trains

[Railfanners]

Amazing! Never actually seen this kind of conrail power in action before! F7s, E8s, GG1s, and even Doodlebugs!!! Simply awesome.

[THEATREofPAIN270]

3:28 Anyone know what highway that is? I can't place it.

[MsC1953]

Some great old locomotives in this! What am I seeing at 3:28 - NYC paint? this is pretty good all things considered!

[cbehr91]

@MsC1953 No, that E8 is painted in a New Jersey Department of Transportation scheme that they adopted after Conrail for their locomotives and some of their heavyweight rolling stock, however there wasn't a huge emphasis on getting a huge amount of the fleet repainted because they would be getting rid of it and getting new equipment soon.

The trailing unit is in normal Conrail blue. The NJDOT scheme wasn't too bad if you ask me.

[TheLastBrainLeft]

At the very end we see a U-boat connected to a consist of old Lackawanna MU's with their pans up.....very strange.

[wicky201]

...for lighting. Something died which is why the train is being pulled by a diesel.

[modeltrainexpert]

NS and CSX my ass! Conrail rocks... If only it was still around...

[mikem1524]

wow this is graet i live within ten minutes from all these spots and its awesome to see the difference 30 years can make

[grvolans]

nice footage.

[FrankG5874]

In an era before NJ Transit.

[Automcanic]

do you recall the road that goes under the bridge at 3:28 I have seen many shots of this, and it looks like a nice area. Great vid. being from Ohio i dont see much of this. and in your description "one hell of a ride" would seem to me describe it nicely lol especially on the curve through the 2 minute segment. Thanks for sharing!

[itm426]

Some of those stainless cars are now at the Indiana Transportation Museum, unless I'm mistaken on the make.

[Zillion43]

So what part of Jersey is it in the beging, is it the former CNJ mainline or the junction at Elizabeth port?

[cbehr91]

@Zillion43 It's the New York & Long Branch (now called the North Jersey Coast Line by New Jersey Transit), which was a joint CNJ-PRR line.

[re49991]

1:57 lady says what the fack

[Automcanic]

@re49991 lmao

[TheNw1218]

aren't these fan excursions?

[cbehr91]

@TheNw1218 Umm... no, these aren't. These are commuter trains in Northern New Jersey now run by New Jersey Transit.

[notalott]

Looks like 'Adventures in Commuting' to me...

[Petemonster62]

Alot of rail fans outside of the big metro areas tend to forget about commuter trains & the fact they are operated by " freight " railroads. You are correct Cbehr91 about the Great Northern's " Sky Blue " cars; the orange & brown-green Great Northern cars are the " Empire Builder " color scheme.

[TheZepmeister]

I like the shot at 3:46

[troy12n]

It's amazing that stuff stayed on the rails as bad of shape as the track and equipment were in

[kjrehberg]

It took me until now to realize the sound I thought was the engine is actually the projector chugging along while these are being transferred to VHS.

[cbehr91]

@kjrehberg Yeah probably. These weren't transferred too professionally.

[KC8WJG]

So much for thinking they only used cab units on these trains.

[murjax]

4:50 guy crosses the tracks while gates are going down. Guess railroads had to deal with idiots even way back in the 70s.

[cbehr91]

Calm down there, buddy. There was no train in site nor any horns or bells heard.

[murjax]

I was pretty sure I heard the crossing bell though.

[cbehr91]

I meant locomotive or cab car bells, I should've cleared that up. The point is that the whole world doesn't have to stop the exact moment the gates go down, there's a reasonable grace period.

[murjax]

True.

[rockisland57]

if the gates are down? reasonable grace period? Surely you jest! AS soon as the lights flash it becomes a stop sign violation.

[cbehr91]

I gather by your channel that you are an engineer, so you probably deal with idiots all the time running the gates and such. However, when that guy was going across, it appears that he is roughly half way through when the gates begin to go down. He appears to be walking rather slowly, so they probably had not begun to go down when he started across. The film cuts to the train approaching (it's not all one shot, it looks like one reel of film ended and the photographer started another.)

[FrankRizzo6662]

I busted a nut back in 1976 on those tracks with some S.A. chick

[choirboyfromhell1]

My first ride down the NY,NJ & LB was behind an ex-CNJ GP-40P and the memory of it was a commuter getting bombed on a tall boy of Schmidt's in the open vestibule!

[theinflator]

Great stuff, nice to see it on here, I am a big fan of 70's railroading!

[mbta1000]

we have a Ex-PC S-2 locomotive used as a "parts" locomotive on the toledo lake erie and western

[emdfan78]

what area is this and year please

[cbehr91]

It's comforting to me that nobody reads the video description, about half these comments wouldn't be here if they had read it.

[Dhoylandrules84]

where these cars even nice inside looks like theres some nice streamliner stuff in there

[cbehr91]

When they were new in the 40s and 50s, yes. But by this time (early 80s) they were used as second-hand hand-me-downs to get by before the state of New Jersey bought new equipment.

[ajmell7]

thank you! great video! the north jersey coast line had a real mixture of equipment!

[roundhouser]

is that the original sound or dubbed in?

[cbehr91]

Original sound.

[rmilisits]

I remember though days, if the trains didn't break down, the bridges did. Great excuse to be late for work. Everyone understood that the equipment was ancient!

[Xnewyork2]

What kind of horn is that on the EMU's? I have been trying to find out what horn it is but I still can't find anything. If anyone knows please tell me.

[cbehr91]

I believe it's a WABCO AA-2.

[Xnewyork2]

it's not an AA-2, those are the kind of horns on Arrow EMU's. I think the horns might be a Wabco A-1 but not really sure since i can't find a recording of one so I'm just assuming that's what it is

[cbehr91]

I did a little checking and it sounds the most like a WABCO AA-1 which was an early dual-note horn made by Westinghouse that according to the internet page; was found on many early interurban locomotives. And the Lackawanna M.U.s would be considered early; because they began running in 1930.

[cbehr91]

And there was no WABCO A-1. The only single-note WABCOs were the A-2 and E-2.

[jimbo2317]

wow this is great! It's pretty neat to see CR when it first started.

[amtrakjackson]

Yep... good footage! GOLD.

[TrainiacProductions]

This is GOLD! Seriously -- I don't need anything for Christmas... this did it. WOW. Really incredible footage here!

Jim

[cbehr91]

Uh... you're welcome?

[TrainiacProductions]

What's the "uh" for?

[cbehr91]

Your overexcitement caught me off guard.

[TrainiacProductions]

Oh, okay, I apologize. I'm NOT a foamer, I just love to see some good Conrail footage. 6 minutes of CR geeps and F units just makes me very happy. Sorry to go crazy on the commenting!

[GP30RDMT]

Nothing wrong with being a foamer...and with a name like "Trainiac", I'd say you're in denial :) :)

Excellent footage Cbehr91.

-Jeffrey

[cbehr91]

Thank you!

[cbehr91]

It's all good.