NJ Transit has unveiled its latest heritage unit, painted for the Erie Railroad, one of its commuter-rail predecessors.
The commuter operator released the photo of GP40PH-2B No. 4210 this weekend in Erie’s black-and-gold paint scheme, noting the railroad “held a large presence in the North Jersey commuter rail scene” and operated on what are now the NJ Transit Bergen County, Southern Tier, and Pascack Valley lines, including portions of the Main and Montclair-Boonton lines.
In its Facebook post, NJ Transit said the newly painted diesel will be “leading NJ Transit trains soon.”
The locomotive is a former Penn Central GP40 built in 1968 and rebuilt by Conrail. It joins diesels units painted for Central of New Jersey and the New Jersey Department of Transportation scheme that preceded NJ Transit, as well as an ALP-46A electric wrapped in a Pennsylvania Railroad scheme and dual-mode ALP-45DP wrapped for Erie-Lackawanna.
Erie (and Lackawanna) had hood locomotives in commuter passenger service. Excellent fit. So all that’s left is DL&W, LV and P-RSL.
You left out NYC and the NYS&W, they both ran commuter service in New Jersey also.
They were left out because NJT never operated over those. That said, a dual mode in Suzy-Q maroon and silver would be epic.
Now THAT is how you do a heritage scheme. Very nice…
Bravo dear NJT.
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I wish they would have used a GP40 or maybe a U boat for the Erie-Lackawanna instead of the ALP-45DP. It would have been a better match to there road engines.
This is one of the best I’ve seen yet.
Awesome job NJT!
Nicely done NJT.
Agreed – that’s what an Erie SD45 might have looked like!
That is a good looking locomotive.
Absolutely.
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