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| Jag9889, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons via Bridge Hunter |
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| Public Domain via Bridge Hunter |
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| Dave Blaze Rail Photography posted UP On NJT! Another from the top shots of 2018 file. A most unusual light power set of UP 9082 and 1943 is seen crossing HX drawbridge over the Hackensack River from the town of Rutherfod into Secaucus on NJT's Bergen County Line at about MP 5.5 as measured from the former Lackawanna Hoboken Terminal. Though historically this was former Erie railroad territory and their passenger trains ran out of Pavonia Terminal on the Jersey City waterfront until 1958 when they shifted Hoboken as a harbinger of the 1960 merger with the Lackawanna that created the EL. HX Draw was built in 1911 and was designed by Joseph Strauss who is slightly better known as the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge is one of the earliest Heel trunnion bascule spans built in the US and is a two track cousin to the unique first of its kind 4 track span I shot in Port Clinton, OH earlier this past summer. The Heel trunnion bascule was designed with the machinery installed on the hip end of the truss while the struts pinned to the counterweight bridge tower with brackets and collar bearings, the railings of stairways are on the truss span to the machinery. This unusual duo led Union Pacific's full office car train from Omaha to the east coast for an extremely special charter to take place the following day. The train itself is tucked away safely in Norfolk Southern's Croxton Yard being prepped and the power was cut off and wyed and then run out to test the functionally of the cab signal equipment that was modified to work on NJT's rails. Built as plain EMD SD70AH #9026 in Feb 2016 this unit was rechristened The Spirit of Union Pacific and given number 1943 when unveiled in this special livery in Oct 2017. If you care to learn more about this locomotive and what the imagery means and why it was given this number check out this official Union Pacific link: https://www.up.com/.../commemorative/1943-spirit/index.htm And to learn a bit about what this train was doing so far from home rails here in the Northeast check out this earlier image and the caption accompanying it: https://flic.kr/p/2jdqNum Secaucus, New Jersey Saturday June 2, 2018 |
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| lulun & kame Flickr via Bridge Hunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) |
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| Douglas Butler posted From Mapio.net HX Railroad Strauss Bascule Bridge in Secaucus, NJ. |
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| Center for Railroad Photography & Art posted The Center is excited to announce that we'll be partnering with Victor Hand to digitize and make accessible approximately 48,000 photographic images that he shot throughout his career. A master of the craft, pioneer in the search for foreign steam, and true industry insider, Hand has spent a staggering six decades immersed in railroading. As a photographer, Hand has chased locomotives from the rail yards of the Erie in 1950s New York to the far-flung, lingering steam railroads of China, Russia and the Soviet Union. The resulting body of work beautifully captures railroading in six contents and fifty countries. As a railroad manager and consultant, Hand has made several notable contributions to the industry--including work on such watersheds in railroad history as the creation of Conrail and the Milwaukee Road's abandonment of its Pacific Coast Extension. We received the first box of Hand negatives last week and can't wait to make them available for public viewing. The first batch includes negatives of the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. Shot by Hand on May 13, 1966, this image shows Erie Lackawanna locomotive no. 813 leading train no. 1169 across the HX Drawbridge over the Hackensack River in Secaucus, New Jersey. The engine is a former long-distance passenger locomotive that became surplus as trains were discontinued in the 1960's, and was utilized in commuter service from Hoboken, New Jersey to Suffern, New York. Erie Lackawanna's Croxton Yard, the main freight hub in the area, is located across the Hackensack. Douglas Butler shared Center for Railroad Photography & Art: HX Railroad Strauss Bascule Bridge as Amtrak and New Jersey Transit Line is passing through located in Secaucus, NJ. |
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| Jake Oster shared his photo Dennis DeBruler: 40°47'17.0"N 74°04'54.6"W |
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