4126 at Bound Brook and 4202 New Jersey Transit

Honestly, you are all lucky that the NJT got videotaped the way it did. I live on Long Island, and I was mainly taking pictures of LIRR trains. The LIRR had GP38-2's, MP15AC's, and "cab car" units that had HEP generators in the bodies of old , de-motored F9's and FA2's. But their days were numbered, and the passenger coaches were relics from the 1950's.
At the same time, CONRAIL was being split up, and I wanted to photograph the BLUE units before they went away...
I did a little research and I found out that if I ride the LIRR to Penn Station, I can change trains there and take NJT to either Roselle Park or Bound Brook, which happen to be adjacent to the CONRAIL Lehigh Valley Line. So I went with the intent of taping the CONRAIL trains, BUT, since the NJT was so close by and I was bored between waiting for CONRAIL to show up, I taped the NJT too. These vids were shot during 1996 and 1997.
Now, being from Long Island, and knowing the decrepitude of LIRR equipment in the 1990's, I thought the NJT trains were modern and stainless steel, unlike the LIRR which was all rusty. I didn't know that NJT was going to replace the equipment so soon

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[chris64346]

man this looks like an old video when the digatal age wasnt around much good video oil man out

[Dac719]

I thought the same thing when I used to see these trains all the time in the 1990s. I, too, had no idea that NJ Transit was going to replace the trains they had with new equipment (which I dislike, by the way) at the time. Having lived in NJ all my life, I've been accustomed to NJ Transit trains rather than LIRR. Having said that, I really appreciate these classic videos of NJ Transit trains.

[Dac719]

I miss these old trains.

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Great video, by the way.