Looking back now, it was a very intense sound.

Was thinking the same thing

That is an awesome comment .

@@1990sRailfan Thank you

You are welcome . Yes, that distinctive chugging sound was a fact of daily life and would reverberate through out the suburbs.

@@1990sRailfan Grew up along the NJT Main Line and loved the sound of these

Random Railfan Only six or seven were painted in it from what I know.

Early seventies? That would have been the time to be out there.

Thanks! One U-Boat survived, the 4172 (3372), that is unless they scrapped it in the last few years.

@@1990sRailfanthink 1 surviving U34CH’s is left

I know what you mean. I remember that chugging sound could be heard quite a far distance.

Yes, it is amazing there are still out there.

1990s Railfan I find it nice that one’s back in the as delivered guise. Someday, I’m hoping 3372 runs again. Call me a foamer but gee, it’d be swell to be around a U-Boat like that.

@@1990sRailfan before NJ transit had there own rail cars and engines they cars from cnj Erie and Pennsylvanian railroad before they got there own stuff

@@chrisstehn9406 Yes, the goal of my first day of rail fanning was to record the EL diamonds on the sides of the Comet cars (1983). I'm glad I did, because the next time I made it trackside in 1984, the diamonds had been replaced with NJT disco stripes.

That's a Comet IA, not a IB (dead giveaway: IA's only had Metro North markings; IB's only had NJ Transit). That is hardly the only difference between them but one of the easy ways to tell them apart from the outside.

At the beginning of the clip you can hear the audio drop out. That was done purposely because I was yelling to the guy there with me about the Conrail engine . At first, I thought it was a freight, (yelled that), then I yelled it was a NJ Transit commuter train with a Conrail engine. What it really was, I believe, (may be wrong about this) was Conrail moving those cars to the railcar plant in Hornell, NY. I just noticed this video freezes at 26:12. That's not intentional. I'll have to look into that. There were a few trains in that slot...now missing. Perhaps, I'll post those clips separately, rather than reposting this video again.

1990s Railfan about that Conrail / NJT Arrow Move makes sense what you are saying. What ever you do get the video unfrozen is okay, just make sure it doesn't destroy what you have because as you mentioned to me before ain't going see anything like it anymore... :-)

The problem was a corrupt mp4 file. I'll leave this video up and post the missing segment.

Thanks Bobby! Stay safe.

Sure, maybe it will bring others to the channel.

@@1990sRailfan oh indeed! You got a lot of incredible old content. I always love looking at old videos of sights lost in the winds of time.

If you can, let me know when you upload that video. I'd like to watch it.

@@1990sRailfan Here's the finished product! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/npN_n92lqpjHdok.html

@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren That's a great video! Thank you.

Crew oversight? I'm not sure what NJT's door policy was at the time, perhaps it was OK to roll the train with the doors open. I'd like to know if that equipment was equipped with the "door light" feature in the locomotive, prevalent on today's stuff. My guess is, it wasn't there.

In between short station stops they typically rolled with the doors open. Now whether or not it was legal, I don't know.

1990s Railfan @ 29:42 why was the signal flashing 4

Could have been a deadhead, Amtrak and Metra do that in Chicago Union Station.

@@jmream2618 that is a limited clear (red over blinking green) which at Ridgewood Junction indicates the route is lined for the Bergen County line (it's a crossover/diverging move). A Clear (green over red) would indicate it's lined for the Main.

What's the difference between a Comet 1 and a Comet 1A?

@@1990sRailfan the first car behind the engine at 4:03 is a Comet 1A. There weren't many of them and unlike the 1B's which were converted from Arrow I's, the Comet IA's were never MU's; they were built from extra Arrow III frames.

@@jvohanian Yes, I asked a friend about that and was informed. Thanks.

I believe, (may be wrong about this) that was Conrail moving those cars to the railcar plant in Hornell, NY.

@@1990sRailfan ABB in Elmira Heights (now CAF)

I almost forgot about the F40s. They were on the property very early. I have photos of them running out to Port Jervis in 1984. They didn't seem very common on the ex Erie Lines, and I think they spent the bulk of their time on the Newark Division.

That's interesting… I wonder why they did that. I assume that the F40s replaced the GG1s

I wish more people were subbed to you. It's pretty rare to find 90s-era footage of railroads around the tri-state.

Yeah, I think the F40s were a general supplemental fleet.

Thank you... just over a month in, we'll see what develops.