Back in the day at one point, can one ride a train from Newark Penn to Brodentown and Camd and Cape May? What was the name of that train?
The PRR train that lasted through WWII until about 1971 was the Nelly Bly, Penn Station, New York to Atlantic City. At one time did have through cars to Cape May, but not near the end of its operation. After WWII, one would have to change trains in Camden. It used a GG1 to Trenton, and probably was the only train changing locomotives at Trenton, with a K4 or E6, then one E-unit south of there.
Thanks for your information. That is awesome! that there were locomotive changes at Trenton.
After WWII there was also a Trenton - Bordonton doodlebug, with an E-6 and combine substituting when it was in the shop, and also a Red Bank - Freehold Secondary - Jamestown - Trenton doodlebug, which I intended to ride to go from Fort Monmouth (back door Little Silver Station) to Princeton Junction to take Draft Deferment tests at Princeton U in the summer of 1951. This was at the insistence of my MIT faculty advisor who somehow thought I would not make it that summer as an ROTC Cadet! He thought that my taking ROTC summer camp between my Junior qnd Senior yeqrs was a mistake. But the ROTC officer had OKed it so I could get a better summer job 1952, which I did at EMD. I did well in the exam and better than average at ROTC summer camp.
But the train that showed up at Little Silver was not the doodlebug. It was an E-6 with combine and coach. Was I pleased!!! Worth pleasing my faculty advisor just to ride behind an E-6.
And I certainly do not regret my Korean Conflict Army career.
daveklepper After WWII there was also a Trenton - Bordonton doodlebug, with an E-6 and combine substituting when it was in the shop, and also a Red Bank - Freehold Secondary - Jamestown - Trenton doodlebug, which I intended to ride to go from Fort Monmouth (back door Little Silver Station) to Princeton Junction to take Draft Deferment tests at Princeton U in the summer of 1951. This was at the insistence of my MIT faculty advisor who somehow thought I would not make it that summer as an ROTC Cadet! He thought that my taking ROTC summer camp between my Junior qnd Senior yeqrs was a mistake. But the ROTC officer had OKed it so I could get a better summer job 1952, which I did at EMD. I did well in the exam and better than average at ROTC summer camp. But the train that showed up at Little Silver was not the doodlebug. It was an E-6 with combine and coach. Was I pleased!!! Worth pleasing my faculty advisor just to ride behind an E-6. And I certainly do not regret my Korean Conflict Army career.
Thought PRR passenger diesels began with E7's - after the war. E6's were pre-war engines.
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BaltACDThought PRR passenger diesels began with E7's - after the war. E6's were pre-war engines.
Balt, he means the "Apex of the Atlantics" PRR class E6, not the EMD locomotive.
RME BaltACD Thought PRR passenger diesels began with E7's - after the war. E6's were pre-war engines. Balt, he means the "Apex of the Atlantics" PRR class E6, not the EMD locomotive.
BaltACD Thought PRR passenger diesels began with E7's - after the war. E6's were pre-war engines.
I have a color painting by Gil Reid of a PRR Atlantic pulling three cars by a tower labeled Tuckahoe. It is one of my favorites. It is a beautiful locomotive.
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I am very glad one E-6 has been saved at the Pennsylvania RR Musuem in Strassburg. Hope the thin firebox wall problem is corrected some day and the locomotive can be made operational. The E-6 is a more graceful looking locomotive for some reason than the K-4, but I am still very fond of the K-4 aswell. I am fond of all Pennsy power, even the Hippo I-5 and the cute B-6. Probably rode behindK-4s more than any other steamer, with the New Haven I-4 Pacific as second.
JPS1I have a color painting by Gil Reid of a PRR Atlantic pulling three cars by a tower labeled Tuckahoe. It is one of my favorites. It is a beautiful locomotive.
Still available from gilreid.com
RME JPS1 I have a color painting by Gil Reid of a PRR Atlantic pulling three cars by a tower labeled Tuckahoe. It is one of my favorites. It is a beautiful locomotive. Still available from gilreid.com
JPS1 I have a color painting by Gil Reid of a PRR Atlantic pulling three cars by a tower labeled Tuckahoe. It is one of my favorites. It is a beautiful locomotive.
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