Change the loco’s number to what suites you.
Just because a picture doesn’t excist, is no proof that it wasn’t occasional used for freight, as suggested by Tom, and in Trains by Flitlock76.
Do what you like.
Mike.
This is true.
Today I spent a lot of time speaking to people and searching around, and found that the Atlas SD35 listed on Walthers’ website is not out of stock, but far from it! It’s unreleased! Therefore, I’ll wait until I see what people think of it after it comes out.
If you want to see my current plans, check my website at http://hohobbyist.weebly.com/wish-list.
You’ll like the Atlas over the Bachmann. Especially if get the ESU sound.
So, I don’t know anything in particular about the CNJ, and while doing some searching around, I’ve noticed that there are 3 colors, the dark green, the red, and the lighter green, as the Atlas loco is.
Whats the correct color for your 1971 time period?
Just curious.
Mike.
Atlas? Bachmann? If you don’t mind waiting, Athearn will soon be making a CNJ Passenger GP7 with the bulges at the end of the long hood for train-lighting equipment.
Dave,
From earlier in the thread conversation, I think the OP would prefer a freight locomotive rather than a passenger.
Tom
FYI train now adays are often in limited runs, and preordering is nessesary to be certain of getting an engine. Just saying, don’t wait to long for buying the SD35!
Have yet to miss somehing I wanted by not pre-ordering. I never preorder. The locos will show up a few months after they are “sold out” on eBay, for the original price ANd sometimes years later at a greatly reduced price - like my Atlas Trainmaster, got the DCC/Sound version for the price of the DC version, years after it was sold out, and new in box. Not a used loco. Picked up an extra PCM Reading T1, also NIB, long after they were sold out, but before the Paragon II ones came out (which I don;t want, don;t need the smoke, and the ESU decoder is better than BLI’s decoders). ANd my new Walthers Plymouth switcher - I wanted the undec blue one, because it matches th scheme on othe rlocos used at the cement plant I plan to put on my layout. Blue with white roof. They were suppsoedly sold out weeks after the were released, preorders sucked them all up. Until a few months ago when a Walther’s sale annoucement reminded me that I did want to get one if I could. Orderign direct was an option, but I paid less for the loco AND less for shippign by getting it from Modeltrainstuff - yes, they had one in stock. I didn;t even have to fight on eBay for it. Click, ordered, and in my hands in a couple of days.
Patience is the key. If you MUST have it now, then you need to preorder. Otherwise, you can always get something.
–Randy
Note the train lighting equipment box ont he end of the long hood of 1523 in these pictures. Note it is NOT present on the photo of 1532 at Jim Thorpe.
1532 wouldn’t have been able to haul those passenger cars. That’s not to say it might not have been used to pull other passenger cars that had axle generators, but I think all the CNJ commuter cars were converted to head end power and thus used locos like 1523 outfitted with the control equipment.
Reading was a little different. Geeps and other locos were purchased for passenger service and numbered x60 and up, while the freight ones were X00 and up. Freight geeps had dynamics, passenger geeps did not, but had steam heat. In warmer months, when heat was not required, freight locos often pulled the passenger trains as substitutes. This was doable because the difference here was just the steam heating system, and if you don;t actually need heat…
–Randy
Regarding the OP’s original question (and not regarding Bachmann), and assuming you want locomotives that CNJ actually owned/leased, and not the wide range of run-through power from Reading, B&O, and others:
In addition to what’s been mentioned above, Atlas “Classic” line has offered CNJ RS-1 (green/yellow stripes) and RS-3 (blue); at least one of them also was offered in the earlier yellow box/Kato line (sorry, can’t recall which one). The RS3s, at least, were certainly in use in 1971. Just a couple years later than your time period, Athearn “ready to run” offered SD40 3067 (in the red/white scheme). These all turn up on ebay occasionally. Also, in the early 1970s CNJ had acquired a number of Reading RS3s (not sure if they were leased or bought second hand by CNJ; as far as I know all were in the older Reading solid dark green, no green/yellow); again, Atlas (Classic or yellow box) has done these. Also, the LifeLike Proto 1000 RDC came in a CNJ version. Rapido offers a much more expensive, higher quality CNJ RDC also. You’ll probably find other options if you search the ebay HO locomotive category using parentheses and commas to cover all of these naming possibilities: (Jersey, CNJ, JCL).
Ok, CNJ did have Funits in 1970 - 1971, leased (or donated) from the B&O and N&W (ex Wabash). A quartet were almost always on the Pit at Potomac yard, VA. for use on the PY to Jersey City Hudson. The B&O crew used to follow our motors (PC train BL-6, PY to Phillipsburg, NJ).
Bachmann GP7s are not junk. They lack some detail, and should have the OEM decoder replaced by something else. The CNJ GP7s were all dual service, as were their RS-3s and FM Road Switchers. One item missing from most models of GP7 painted for the CNJ, is the auxiliary power box, on the long hood end (see previous photo link), which may be available from the Anthraacite RRHS, or another supplier. Other than that they are good to go.
GP7s were still very much in use in 1972, running out of Penn Station Newark, some by then in B&O Dark blue and yellow striping, with Lady Liberty logo where the Capitol Dome would be.
If you are modeling the Lehigh Valley of PA, the CNJ used to run trains into Allentown, PA, which by 1971 were cut back to Phillipsburg, NJ as NJ would not subsidize trains into PA.
Boris
CNJ had two paint schemes:
Olive Green w/Gold Stripes
Orange/Blue
What time frame are you modeling CNJ in? if you want a transition era freight train, ATHG F3’s painted in Orange/Blue in an ABA lashup pulling 30 freght cars and caboose would work.
Atlas also released some Fairbanks Morse Switchers in HO Scale a while back, check ebay for them. You may want some CNJ Heavyweight cars as well.
You may have to kitbash your own CNJ caboose if you don’t like the RTR generic ones. Laserkits or Custom made ones on ebay work. CNJ decals are also avaiable in HO Scale.
If you read the OP’s opening post, he’s modeling 1971, specifically.
Mike.
I think Red/White was CNJ’s scheme for the 70’s.
Modeling 1971, that’s CNJ in it’s later life.
Are you focusing on 1971 only or the last years which would be 1971-1976?
CNJ was absorbed into Conrail on April 1, 1976.
CNJ did have SD35’s, they were Olive Green with Black/Gold Stripes on both ends.
SD40-2’s were Dark Blue with a Pale Yellow Stripe across the sides, but were later repainted “Fire Engine Red” with a White Diagional Stripe just under the dyamic brake fan with CNJ’s “Lady Liberty” Logo painted Red in the center and the Yellow Stripe across the center was changed to White. Stripes were also painted on both ends.