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By:Mike Woodruff
Dates:1/1/1960 - 1/1/2005
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PRR 4926
Title:  PRR 4926
Description:  A GG1 glides through Elizabeth with a Philadelphia-bound "Clocker".
Photo Date:  1/12/1966  Upload Date: 12/4/2005 3:20:35 PM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PRR 4926(GG1)
Views:  1312   Comments: 0
PRR 9605
Title:  PRR 9605
Description:  The Pennsy's Keystone makes a station stop at Elizabeth. This train consisted of specially built cars with low centers of gravity to allow for higher speeds on curves. The date is in question since this scan was made from a duplicate slide. If anyone has more information on this train or knows the disposition of the equipment, please post a comment.
Photo Date:  5/1/1966  Upload Date: 12/19/2008 8:53:29 AM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  857   Comments: 1
EL 1400
Title:  EL 1400
Description:  A quartet of EL commuter Geeps handles a westbound pig train, shown crossing the Ramapo River near Tuxedo, NY. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1971  Upload Date: 1/16/2020 2:01:58 PM
Location:  Tuxedo, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  EL 1400(GP7)
Views:  214   Comments: 0
LI 2001
Title:  LI 2001
Description:  Long Island commuter club car "Syosset" at Jamaica in 1971. This was the first Syosset - built by Pullman in 1924 to plan 3410 as 12 section/1 drawing room sleeping car "McEwen." Wrecked 1973 and retired.
Photo Date:  6/26/1971  Upload Date: 12/2/2010 7:41:33 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  1090   Comments: 0
CV 4551
Title:  CV 4551
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/7/1971  Upload Date: 12/1/2005 11:31:51 AM
Location:  New London, CT
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CV 4551(GP9)
Views:  1014   Comments: 0
EL 1403
Title:  EL 1403
Description:  EL often pressed their commuter service passenger Geeps into freight service on the weekends. Here, four of them work a westbound freight. EL 1403 was later CR 5922.
Photo Date:  8/14/1971  Upload Date: 11/30/2010 12:27:18 AM
Location:  Tuxedo Park, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  EL 1403(GP7)
Views:  1391   Comments: 9
GM&O 909
Title:  GM&O 909
Description:  A westbound extra passes the tower at Joliet. GM&O 909 later became ICG/IC 6058, was scrapped at Homewood, IL 9/2010.
Photo Date:  8/23/1971  Upload Date: 12/11/2010 3:25:43 PM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories:  Station,Signal,Track
Locomotives:  GMO 909(SD40)
Views:  1315   Comments: 4
WM 180
Title:  WM 180
Description:  WM Alcos congregate on the whisker tracks at Hagerstown. In less than a year, the two FAs would become "carbody power cars" on the Long Island RR; WM 304 would be LIRR 608 and WM 301 would be LIRR 609.
Photo Date:  10/1/1971  Upload Date: 4/2/2007 2:47:04 PM
Location:  Hagerstown, MD
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WM 180(RS2) WM 304(FA2) WM 301(FA2)
Views:  3623   Comments: 1
SLSF 50
Title:  SLSF 50
Description:  Four Frisco Fs handle freight past the Southern passenger depot in Brimingham
Photo Date:  5/26/1972  Upload Date: 12/7/2005 10:01:07 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SLSF 50(FP7A)
Views:  2523   Comments: 2
SOU 6914
Title:  SOU 6914
Description:  A Carman with a crescent works the Southern Crescent at Birmingham.
Photo Date:  5/26/1972  Upload Date: 10/22/2006 9:45:55 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6914(E8A)
Views:  1477   Comments: 1
SOU 6914
Title:  SOU 6914
Description:  Power for the Southern Crescent lays over in Birmingham.
Photo Date:  5/26/1972  Upload Date: 10/22/2006 9:47:15 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6914(E8A)
Views:  1923   Comments: 1
EL 3607
Title:  EL 3607
Description:  Elephant-style SD45s lug a westbound pig train up to Gulf Summit. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1972  Upload Date: 1/16/2020 2:11:41 PM
Location:  Gulf Summit, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  EL 3607(SD45)
Views:  280   Comments: 0
D&H 711
Title:  D&H 711
Description:  EB D&H train passes R tower and enters the yard at Allentown.
Photo Date:  2/14/1973  Upload Date: 9/25/2006 7:06:02 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DH 711(U30C)
Views:  1617   Comments: 1
LV 410
Title:  LV 410
Description:  Power for a WB freight pulls out onto the main and clears the interlocking prior to backing down onto his train.
Photo Date:  2/14/1973  Upload Date: 12/1/2010 11:10:19 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LV 410(C420)
Views:  988   Comments: 0
CNJ 3683
Title:  CNJ 3683
Description:  An eastbound CNJ Raritan line train in "push" mode at the Bound Brook depot. CNJ 3683 was later CR/NJTR 4112, NJTR 4108.
Photo Date:  2/17/1973  Upload Date: 11/28/2010 10:32:48 PM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CNJ 3683(GP40P)
Views:  1060   Comments: 2
CNJ 91521
Title:  CNJ 91521
Description:  An eastbound passenger train in "push" mode passes the caboose of a local freight working at Bound Brook.
Photo Date:  2/17/1973  Upload Date: 11/28/2010 10:41:34 PM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CNJ 3683(GP40P)
Views:  961   Comments: 0
EL 822
Title:  EL 822
Description:  Old and new at Hoboken Terminal. What was then new is gone now, too!
Photo Date:  3/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/1/2010 9:06:20 PM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  EL 822(E8A) EL 3361(U34CH)
Views:  737   Comments: 3
EL 823
Title:  EL 823
Description:  EL E8A 823 departs Hoboken with a Port Jervis train.
Photo Date:  3/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/2/2010 3:44:18 PM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  EL 823(E8A)
Views:  513   Comments: 1
BAR 72
Title:  BAR 72
Description:  A pair of leased BAR Geeps works freight in what I believe is LIRR's "A" yard in Long Island City.
Photo Date:  3/9/1973  Upload Date: 12/3/2010 11:49:32 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BAR 72(GP7)
Views:  911   Comments: 1
BAR 64
Title:  BAR 64
Description:  A pair of BAR Geeps works a LIRR freight train on the Montauk Branch in Forest Park, Queens, NY.
Photo Date:  3/23/1973  Upload Date: 12/3/2010 5:18:17 PM
Location:  Richmond Hill, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BAR 64(GP7)
Views:  658   Comments: 1
LI 1520
Title:  LI 1520
Description:  A pair of Long Island RS2s works a ballast train through Forest Park on the Montauk Branch. LI 1520 was originally D&H 4020, later became Detroit & Mackinac 977.
Photo Date:  3/23/1973  Upload Date: 12/3/2010 5:26:51 PM
Location:  Richmond Hill, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 1520(RS2)
Views:  927   Comments: 1
NYSW 238
Title:  NYSW 238
Description:  Squeak RS1 crosses the Overpeck Creek drawbridge.
Photo Date:  3/27/1973  Upload Date: 12/10/2010 9:48:37 PM
Location:  Little Ferry, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NYSW 238(RS1)
Views:  1338   Comments: 2
B&O 3710
Title:  B&O 3710
Description:  A short eastbound freight behind Chessie power on the once-proud CNJ four-track mainline at Elizabeth. B&O 3710 was later GATX 3710, then rebuilt to GP39H-2 MARC 74. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/11/1973  Upload Date: 11/28/2010 9:41:25 PM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 3710(GP40)
Views:  626   Comments: 1
RDG 491
Title:  RDG 491
Description:  A venerable RS3 does the honors on this Reading freight departing the west end of the yard.
Photo Date:  4/24/1973  Upload Date: 1/13/2009 4:32:52 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 491(RS3)
Views:  1022   Comments: 0
RDG 5300
Title:  RDG 5300
Description:  Reading 5300 was named "Rocket II" - later became Conrail 6753.
Photo Date:  4/24/1973  Upload Date: 12/13/2010 7:10:18 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 5300(C630)
Views:  947   Comments: 0
NYSW 240
Title:  NYSW 240
Description:  Susquehanna 240 on the Overpeck Creek drawbridge. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/10/2010 9:59:47 PM
Location:  Little Ferry, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NYSW 240(RS1)
Views:  869   Comments: 1
PC 3839
Title:  PC 3839
Description:  A B-unit leads this coal train.
Photo Date:  5/3/1973  Upload Date: 12/4/2005 3:36:48 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PC 3839(GP9B)
Views:  21187   Comments: 1
CNJ 3678
Title:  CNJ 3678
Description:  It's the "Bay Head Empire Builder!"
Photo Date:  5/6/1973  Upload Date: 11/30/2005 11:12:51 AM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CNJ 3678(GP40P)
Views:  1312   Comments: 1
PC 4838
Title:  PC 4838
Description:  Straight electric and diesel-electric team up on this eastbound as two GG1s and two SD35s drag through the S-curve at Elizabeth.
Photo Date:  5/13/1973  Upload Date: 12/24/2008 10:49:37 AM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PC 4838(GG1)
Views:  696   Comments: 0
L&HR 27
Title:  L&HR 27
Description:  Most of the L&HR roster congregates outside the shop. Amazingly enough, three of these four units are extant in 2010; L&HR 24 as A&M 54, L&HR 27 as LNAC 850, and L&HR 29 as A&M 58.
Photo Date:  5/26/1973  Upload Date: 12/1/2010 9:36:56 PM
Location:  Warwick, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LHR 27(C420) LHR 29(C420) LHR 28(C420) LHR 24(C420)
Views:  2067   Comments: 0
CNJ 2502
Title:  CNJ 2502
Description:  EB CNJ freight waits for permission to enter Elizabethport yard.
Photo Date:  6/3/1973  Upload Date: 11/30/2005 11:13:14 AM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CNJ 2502(SD35)
Views:  1546   Comments: 1
EL 3380
Title:  EL 3380
Description:  Old and new at Hoboken Terminal. Of course, what was new then is gone now, too!
Photo Date:  6/7/1973  Upload Date: 12/1/2010 9:16:49 PM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  EL 3380(U34CH) EL 823(E8A)
Views:  659   Comments: 1
LI 615
Title:  LI 615
Description:  Long Island Alco "power car" 615 was rebuilt from BN FA-1 4116, ex-SP&S 864, nee-GN 442A. She later became SPAX 615. Shown here leaving the Hunterspoint Avenue station less than two months after entering service on LIRR.
Photo Date:  6/8/1973  Upload Date: 11/28/2018 9:58:10 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 615(Power Car)
Views:  422   Comments: 1
AMTK 909
Title:  AMTK 909
Description:  GG1s congregate at Elizabeth
Photo Date:  6/10/1973  Upload Date: 12/4/2005 3:58:31 PM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 909(GG1) AMTK 924(GG1) AMTK 912(GG1)
Views:  1330   Comments: 0
B&O 7440
Title:  B&O 7440
Description:  An eastbound freight passes the cab car of the Bayonne shuttle at Elizabeth. B&O 7440 was later IC/ICG 2040, NREX 2040.
Photo Date:  7/17/1973  Upload Date: 11/30/2010 7:11:05 PM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 7440(SD35)
Views:  958   Comments: 0
CNJ 3068
Title:  CNJ 3068
Description:  View from beneath the manually operated crossing gates, as a pair of CNJ SD40s brings a SB freight through South Amboy. CNJ 3068 was later Conrail 6292, EMDX 6410, FURX 3041.
Photo Date:  7/18/1973  Upload Date: 11/30/2010 7:25:58 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CNJ 3068(SD40)
Views:  1837   Comments: 9
RDG 7600
Title:  RDG 7600
Description:  Reading SD45 7600 works a short eastbound freight on the once-proud CNJ four track mainline at Elizabeth. She would later become CR 6100 and C&NW 6558.
Photo Date:  7/18/1973  Upload Date: 8/4/2007 11:41:53 AM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 7600(SD45)
Views:  1485   Comments: 3
RR 2
Title:  RR 2
Description:  Two of Raritan River's six SW900s on the interchange track at South Amboy. These units later became Conrail 8659 and 8660.
Photo Date:  7/18/1973  Upload Date: 12/13/2010 6:53:21 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RR 2(SW900) RR 3(SW900)
Views:  1694   Comments: 0
EL 3606
Title:  EL 3606
Description:  A pair of EL SD45s with eastbound tonnage on the Boonton/Greenwood Lake line.
Photo Date:  7/22/1973  Upload Date: 12/10/2010 10:08:23 PM
Location:  Great Notch, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  EL 3606(SD45)
Views:  997   Comments: 1
LV 7642
Title:  LV 7642
Description:  Lehigh Valley RS11 7642 was originally Pennsy 8642.
Photo Date:  8/9/1973  Upload Date: 12/2/2010 4:33:26 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LV 7642(RS11)
Views:  850   Comments: 0
JTCO 37
Title:  JTCO 37
Description:  Jacksonville Terminal SW900 was later SCL 232.
Photo Date:  8/12/1973  Upload Date: 6/17/2010 5:21:51 PM
Location:  Jacksonville, FL
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  JTCO 37(SW900)
Views:  1080   Comments: 2
AMTK 204
Title:  AMTK 204
Description:  Amtrak's Champion departs Jacksonville behind E-units of SCL, UP and B&O ancestry.
Photo Date:  8/17/1973  Upload Date: 6/17/2010 5:27:22 PM
Location:  Jacksonville, FL
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 204(E8A)
Views:  1183   Comments: 0
LI 216
Title:  LI 216
Description:  Four LIRR C420s smoke it up through Bay Shore, NY with a Sunday afternoon Montauk-bound train. This was a regular power balancing move to place locomotives at outlying points ready for Monday morning commuter runs. LI 216 was later Roberval & Saguenay 36.
Photo Date:  8/24/1973  Upload Date: 12/7/2010 9:46:01 PM
Location:  Bay Shore, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 216(C420)
Views:  731   Comments: 1
LI 2068
Title:  LI 2068
Description:  Three LIRR C420s and a leased BAR GP7 pass Union Hall Street station with a Sunday afternoon Montauk-bound train. This was a regular power balancing move to place locomotives at outlying points ready for Monday morning commuter runs. LIRR parlor car "Merrick" first out was formerly New Haven 14-4 sleeper "City Point".
Photo Date:  9/16/1973  Upload Date: 12/8/2010 9:48:52 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BAR 66(GP7)
Views:  1409   Comments: 0
LI 203
Title:  LI 203
Description:  Three LIRR C420s and a leased BAR GP7 pass Union Hall Street station with a Sunday afternoon Montauk-bound train. This was a regular power balancing move to place locomotives at outlying points ready for Monday morning commuter runs.
Photo Date:  9/16/1973  Upload Date: 12/7/2010 10:03:33 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 203(C420)
Views:  699   Comments: 0
LV 400
Title:  LV 400
Description:  Eastbound LV with three RS11s and a GP18 at Bound Brook. LV 400 was later Conrail 7609.
Photo Date:  10/18/1973  Upload Date: 12/19/2008 8:30:17 AM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LV 400(RS11)
Views:  1471   Comments: 1
LI 417
Title:  LI 417
Description:  This is actually LI 417:2. LI 417:1's carbody was scrapped 1970, engine and generator installed in LI 406:1 carbody which became LI 417:2. (The b/d and b/n given are for LI 406) Sold 6/16/77 to Naporano Iron & Metal and last known (2009) to be sitting derelict outside the former D&H Colonie (NY) shops as NIMX 417.
Photo Date:  1/17/1974  Upload Date: 12/7/2010 10:38:30 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 417(S1)
Views:  719   Comments: 0
LI 419
Title:  LI 419
Description:  LI 419 was sold 6/16/1977 to Naporano Iron & Metal and survives today as FCCX (Farmers Commission Company) 419 at Upper Sandusky, OH.
Photo Date:  1/17/1974  Upload Date: 12/7/2010 11:11:13 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 419(S1)
Views:  673   Comments: 0
LI 1558
Title:  LI 1558
Description:  LI 1558 is on borrowed time as she heads east past Union Hall Street station with an Oyster Bay-bound push pull trainset. She suffered a fire 6/74 and was later scrapped.
Photo Date:  1/23/1974  Upload Date: 12/7/2010 11:44:43 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 1558(RS3)
Views:  649   Comments: 0
B&O 3765
Title:  B&O 3765
Description:  An EB B&O freight running on the Jersey Central ducks under the Pennsy mainline at Elizabeth.
Photo Date:  2/9/1974  Upload Date: 11/28/2010 9:04:02 PM
Location:  Elizabeth, NJ
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 3765(GP40)
Views:  631   Comments: 2


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