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Owner: NJ Transit Rail Operations
Model:Alstom PL42-ACBuilt As:Builder Info (Unavailable )
Serial Number:78030Order No:
Frame Number: Built:
Other locos with this serial:  NJT 4029(PL42-AC) NJTR 4029(PL42-AC)
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NJTR 4029
Title:  NJTR 4029
Description:  Plainfield Local
Photo Date:  3/24/2009  Upload Date: 3/24/2009 9:12:50 PM
Location:  Netherwood, NJ
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  NJTR 4029(PL42-AC)
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NJTR 4029
Title:  NJTR 4029
Description:  The Plainfield Local departs Plainfield with a deadhead run back to Newark. It will cross over to the other track just east of the station.
Photo Date:  3/24/2009  Upload Date: 3/24/2009 9:13:11 PM
Location:  Plainfield, NJ
Author:  Paul Koprowski
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Locomotives:  NJTR 4029(PL42-AC)
Views:  266   Comments: 0
Numbers from the Past
Title:  Numbers from the Past
Description:  Today I was lucky enough to acquire a pair of number boards from a long retired and scrapped NJ Transit U34CH. While these boards are not the originals it was delivered to the Erie Lackawanna with in 1971 they still hold significance to me as these are the engines that as a kid blew my mind with their strange sounds and excessive smoke. The 4163 was one of the many U34CHs that wore its original "Blue Bird" NJDOT paint for its entire service career. It only received a handful of paint mods when its ownership was transferred to NJ Transit in 1983. These small changes included painting the the nose "platinum mist" silver and applying a large NJ Transit logo and the removal of the NJDOT blue arrow logo. The fate of this engine seems to be a mystery as to exactly when and where it was scrapped. It appears all that remains of it are these boards unless other collectors were lucky enough to get the horn, bell and the other two boards. I posed the two boards in some saucy afternoon light at HX Drawbridge. A piece of former Erie Lackawanna track this engine crossed probably hundreds of thousands of times in its career. In the background a modern NJ Transit PL42AC crosses the Hackensack River. Time will tell if the retirement of these modern locomotives will be a sorely felt by railfans as the U34s was.
Photo Date:  6/29/2018  Upload Date: 7/25/2018 8:49:58 PM
Location:  Rutherford, NJ
Author:  Michael Sullivan
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  NJTR 4163(U34CH) NJTR 4029(PL42-AC)
Views:  545   Comments: 1


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