So cool! See the Arrow IIIs looking so new brings back great memories of when my folks and I moved to Edison back in 1980. ....cool part is, I still ride those same A3s on my regular commute today.
At 28:50, seeing the rackety, 1920s-vintage EMUs of the old Erie Lackawanna in the same frame as PATH's space-age PA1 rolling stock is quite a juxtaposition of rail eras! It's incredible to think Conrail kept those antiques in service for as long as they did. The GE Arrow III units built to replace the "Edison stock" are now nearly as old as those cars were then, and, remarkably, still see regular revenue service on Hoboken runs in 2024!
P..S. 27:31 Is that not thee Empire State Building back there, across the Hudson !!!? I'm in L.A. since 1978 but grew up in NYC and L.I. in 50s-60s.. Still miss the rhythm of it all...Am 76..Ret. Mus. and dormant HO MRRer.. These (analog) movies are just magnificent priceless captures !!!
yes that sure is a good choice. It was great to be back to these tracks and trains again after all these years. I chased the Gg1s in 1981. Those were the times....Thank you !
@@RailroadMediaArchive Thanks! I grew up in the Plainfield area - flashback to my youth seeing coaches with windows that open and the branding of the time. How many times did they have to rebrand engines and coaches back then?
I know i may catch some heat fir saying this but those GG1s were some ugly locos but ut is really cool to see the NJ Transit from back then looks like these are the passenger cars that preceeded the Comets id imagine them Arrow MUs mustve seemed so futuristic back then
