When a Union Pacific DD35 came to Newark NJ (and other late 1970s NJ shots)

Erie_Lackawanna · February 26, 2010, 9:02pm

Been busy with the slide scanner and wanted to share some stuff.

First image is the D&H AP-2 power, lead by a patched Lehigh Valley GP38-2 at Oak Island Yard, Newark in November 1976.

Second image is of a derelict Penn Central E8(A) that looks like it had a tree growing out of it, behind the Elizabethport Shops, December 1979.

Third is a patched Penn Central SD45 with the SECR2 freight going under the since removed Ivy Street Bridge in Haworth, December 1979.

Finally, a Union Pacific DD35 getting scrapped at Naporano Iron & Metal in Newark, also in December 1979.

Thanks for looking and corrections are welcome.

Charles Freericks

eolafan · February 27, 2010, 9:36am

Great shots, but the one of the Penn Central E-8 unit was kind of sad…hated to see such an elegent piece of machinery looking so bad.

ndbprr · February 27, 2010, 12:26pm

Definitely an exPRR engine. They were the only road to add lift rings on either side of the door at the frame level.