They are ALP-44 which had an expected lifetime of 25 years but retired after 22 years of use because they were not powerful enough to haul the new heavier double deck cars. NJ Transit has to satisfy $24.5 million in interest for a federal loan for them so they cannot yet be scrapped.
Come on . For shame to see this 😱 This turns my stomach! That was a young electric I remember them when they arrived to NJT Featured in on a Magazine cover in the 1990's. Why not put them in the museums? Not this hideous graffiti vandalism ! My respect to these electrics i rode on every occasions of New Jersey Transit, My tribute to them & i thank Atlas Model trains for making these in my prized possessions & collections in Ho scale.
Given the level of vandalism and the lack of security, these are just waiting for their date with the scrapper. Compare these with the GG1s that had much longer lives and could pull the heaviest trains - freight and passenger almost to the very end of their lives.
Especially since NJ Transit is yelling about money shortages and still paying interest on them. NJ Transit can save themselves some money by running engines like these without the double deckers & definitely getting out of the real estate business (no more transit villages & the like). They need to stick to rails & buses.
as a railroad employee these locomotives are in long term storage not abandoned as for you its a felony charge if you get caught trespassing on nj state property with the possibility of 6 months jail time and up to a 5000 dollar fine.
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They are ALP-44 which had an expected lifetime of 25 years but retired after 22 years of use because they were not powerful enough to haul the new heavier double deck cars. NJ Transit has to satisfy $24.5 million in interest for a federal loan for them so they cannot yet be scrapped.
Thanks so much for this info!
They could've been used to haul trains that don't run the double deckers. What a waste. Public Service, its predecessor, was much better.
Come on . For shame to see this 😱 This turns my stomach! That was a young electric I remember them when they arrived to NJT Featured in on a Magazine cover in the 1990's. Why not put them in the museums? Not this hideous graffiti vandalism ! My respect to these electrics i rode on every occasions of New Jersey Transit, My tribute to them & i thank Atlas Model trains for making these in my prized possessions & collections in Ho scale.
Given the level of vandalism and the lack of security, these are just waiting for their date with the scrapper. Compare these with the GG1s that had much longer lives and could pull the heaviest trains - freight and passenger almost to the very end of their lives.
Nice video
Thanks! 🤙
This must be near the end of the line.
Were the horns and radios stripped out
Possibly and yes, many of the parts were stripped out or vandalized.
I think this is part of the Lackawanna Cut-Off. I could be wrong.
Would be unusual for NJ Transit abandoned engines way out there . But possible .
Your right
This looks like the tracks up by the roundhouse.
Stanhope NJ, this is part of the Lackawanna Cut-Off.
Still unacceptable by nj transit to leave them this way
Especially since NJ Transit is yelling about money shortages and still paying interest on them. NJ Transit can save themselves some money by running engines like these without the double deckers & definitely getting out of the real estate business (no more transit villages & the like). They need to stick to rails & buses.
Amazing waste of money. But why not? It's all Federal funds and not our problem!
as a railroad employee these locomotives are in long term storage not abandoned as for you its a felony charge if you get caught trespassing on nj state property with the possibility of 6 months jail time and up to a 5000 dollar fine.
I didn't have any signs of no trespassing