Erie Lackawanna in New Jersey 1972-76
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Silent 8mm film of Erie Lackawanna in New Jersey taken from 1972 to '76, including brief scenes at Great Notch and Collins Curve in Waldwick during Conrail's first summer. The train ride on the Stillwell coach and tour at Croxton Yard I think was a fan trip affiliated with the 1972 NRHS Convention that was in New York City.
Keep the EL going please.
My dad started on the Erie in 1972 in the Ford plant thanks for sharing
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@RailroadMediaArchive yes that's we're my dad started he would pick his paycheck up in paterson freight house
Oh the childhood memories. ❤
I remember E-L freight trains in western New York State when I was young. I swear those were the fastest freights I've ever seen.
Amazing footage! So thankful for its preservation. Thank you for sharing.
I can remember seeing the MU’s in the Dover and Morristown areas in the late 60’s and early 70’s. When I was younger, my folks and I would ride the Pennsy MU’s from Metuchen, NJ into Newark to shop and hit the movies.
This brings back a lot of memories. I spent time in Dover almost daily watching the trains come and go. Made many a trip to NYC via Lackawanna and the Hudson tubes (Hudson & Manhattan RR). Haven't been to Hoboken since 1984, the last year the DL&W electrics ran. Didn't seem to be much to look at after that. Today I take midtown direct from Dover to Penn Station, by-passing Hoboken entirely.
It was always fascinating going through the maze of switches and track pulling out of Hoboken.
Definitely keep the el going
If you look at the MUs you'll notice some have Erie tacked on in front of Lackawanna while some have Erie Lackawanna centered over the windows depending on whether the car received a total repaint after the merger or just an upgrade to the new road name.
4 wide back then on the old Erie Main from Waldwick down to Ridgewood Jct. in Glen Rock is wild to see. EL must've pulled a ton of heavy freights on that line. Conrail severely curtailed their usage of it and CSX and NS of all but gutted what was left of it as a freight line. Great footage of the EL/NJDOT U-Boat-Comet 1 commuters when they were brand new. Fond memories of the old soft leather brown seats and 70s-ish wood paneling of the Comet 1 interiors when I rode them as a kid on NJT in the 90s and early 00s. They had such a distinct smell.
2:13 - I was hoping you would have a view like this one. When I was working in Harrison, NJ years ago, I would see these anachronistic, almost comical, "Toonerville Trolleys," as we called them on the elevated rail bridge over Fourth Street. I was sorry I never got a picture of one of them, but I would have had to carry a camera with me because cell phone cameras didn't exist back then. Would you happen to have any images of the old Central Jersey RR Diesel Locomotives that came out of Bay Head? As a kid, I used to love watching those old, slow, wiggle-woggleing, short wheebase Locos with the sad-sounding horn slowly plod and wiggle along Route 35. I regret never getting a picture of one of those paralleling rt 35, but i would have had to borrow my dad's camera, and film was expensive, and my dad was, I might say 'frugal."😂 Edit: Wow! You have 1950's NY & LB RR steam Locos into Bay Head, nice! I'll look at the rest of your vids to see if you have any Central Railroad Locos here.
Remember it all? Remember the top boats. Remember playing down on those abandoned piers, those old station down there when I was a little boy, if that's all we have us guys from downtown jersey city❤❤❤🇮🇹
12-car Lackawanna MU train @5:21, wow!!!
Ancient equipment to boot.
Thank you for sharing.👍
Use to ride the EL from Gladstone NJ to Hoboken in the early 60’s
Very nice.
Do you have videos showing the inside of the trains? I'd like to see the view from a passenger's standpoint.
I remember when we had passenger rail services 😢😢😢😢😢
Oh, so Erie is also a shipping lane?
I am looking for any video of elmora jersey central station in Elizabeth from the 40s or 50s. Grew up on west grand st about 1/2 block away and went to NYC very frequently from there. Used to walk CNJ tracks going to jr high. Any references appreciated.
11-car Lackawanna MU train @8:08!!
What are those initials for at 3:15 and where is this?
DL&W = Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the full name of the Lackawanna Railroad that merged with the Erie in 1960 to form Erie Lackawanna.
It's at Hoboken Terminal and probably still exists.
Simpler time's.