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RE: (erielack) PA's on the Northern
As of what date did commuter and freight (if different) service cease on the
NRRNJ?
Thanks
Chris Thurner
-----Original Message-----
From: Janet & Randy Brown [mailto:jananran_@_mymailstation.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:07 AM
To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
Subject: (erielack) PA's on the Northern
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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