Some NJ Transit Shots in Dover NJ

And as with any railroad, there was a guest appearance!

 

All Metro North equipment is in pool service with NJT. #4903 is just back from a rebuild. IIRC it was #4186. All the Metro North engines are sccheduled for rebuilding. As they come back,they're renumbered into the 4900 series. Dover is the end of the wire on the Morris & Essex(M&E) line. There's a yard there. That where Rich was,inn the driveway.The rail continues up to Hacketstown. Diesels service that part of the line.

 

Mike,
Thanks for adding the details about the location. I had been told that Metro North pooled power with NJT and it was neat to catch some of thier power durng my visits.

One thing to add about the location. The spot I was shoting from is a driveway that leads to the NJT Dover Railyard but there are also businesses along the first part and I was on the public section of the drive. I did not pass the NJT no trespassing signs and respected the location. Have to admit, it is a really neat place to see some passenger action.

 

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more from Dover NJ

 

What are the two odd-looking NJT loco types, 4020 and 4025(?), and the electric (can't read #)?

 

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoList.aspx?mid=955
The wierd lookking deisels are called PL42-AC

Nice photos

 

The bodies were made in Spain,shipped & assemblied in Hornel,NY. by Alstrom. EMD prime mover.They are garbage. $7 million apiece. They(Transit) cancelled the order for IIRC, 20 more. The computers are like Hal from the movie 2001.
Transit & the Montreal Transit are looking for dual mode engines,with pantographs,not 3td rail.

 

Thanks for the info on the PL-42's, sounds like "Dave" better remove the correct cicuit boards quickly before they kill the engineers and take over NJT.

Who built the electric?

 

ALP46

The electric loco in the first photo appears to be # 4624, and is an ALP46. This is a dual-voltage loco, meaning that it can work with the two different AC voltages that come from the overheard wire (a) in Penn Station and the Northeast Corridor line used by Amtrak, which goes under the Hudson River into New Jersey. which is a PRR legacy line, and (b) on the Morristown line, where the overhead wire goes from Dover all the way to Hoboken (this is a Lackawanna legacy line).

There is a pair of interchange tracks, installed in the mid-1990s, which allows a train to switch from the Lackawanna-heritage track to the Northeast Corridor line in Kearny NJ. These two lines crossed over each other for decades without an interchange, and the installation of this interchange in the mid-1990s, along with the acquisition of dual-voltage locos, allowed Morristown line commuters to get a one-seat ride into Penn Station NY for the first time ever.

I am not sure if one company makes the ALP46 by itself. If you google "ALP46", you will find alot of info.

 

Thanks, Carl. I was familiar with the ALP44, but had not heard of the ALP46.

 

Carl,

Just a quick question, didn't the EL go through the Delware Water Gap and into PA? I read somewhere that there was discussion of extending commuter service to E Stroudsburg and maybe over the old Lehigh Vly into Allentown/Bethlehem? I was raised on the MAIN LINE of the PRR in Narberth. I remember riding the READING from Philly to Bethlehem.

Robert

 

The Lackawanna went at least as far as Scranton in PA.

Here is a link to a page that discusses the proposal to extend passenger rail service across the Delaware into Pennslvania again:

New Jersey Transit

 

Carl,

Thanks for the link. I just finished reviewing all of the Capital Improvement Projects listed on the NJ Transit site. I remeber taking the CRUSADER from Philly to Newark on the Reading back in the 60s. It was a railfan trip since I usually took the PRR from Philly to NYC.

Robert

 

Here's a shot from Netcong NJ - a little less than 10 miles west of Dover.
Summer 2007