(erielack) PA's on the Northern

["Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>]

Alan [and list] -- For the final twenty years or so of passenger service on the Northen Railroad of New Jersey [NRRNJ or Northern] the pattern was:
Weekdays -- three down in the morning; three up in the evening.
Saturdays -- Two down in the morning; one up early afternoon; one up in the evening. 

Steam era  passenger power was a gas electric with two coaches on the first and last; a K4  with seven or eight on the middle ones and a K1 with five or six on the last and first -- all on weekdays.  Saturdays skipped the K1 and its set.  Diesels came in the early '50's and were RS2/3's.  Coaches were all suburban stillwells.  No air conditioning; you haven't experienced until you have entered a car that has been in the coach yard in the sun all day at 90-plus degrees!

Freights were K4's, with an occasional N1 or C3.  Diesels were GP7's or RS2/3's, indiscriminantly.  Freight ran six days a week. Often there were two jobs:  one from Croxton to Palisades Park, the other from Croxton to Nyack, working Leonia and north.

Then there were the fan trips . . .

Randy Brown ELHS#16

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