Visit North Hawthorne Station, July 1971.
The LAST 257 at Little Ferry Yard.
The train was to depart on Saturday, May 29 1999 but the SU99 derailed
at Gulf Summit and almost made the last 257 on the NYS&W become
the
first 257 over the River Line. Dick and Joe reported back for work
on
Sunday morning, posed for photos (a second time) and ran the train
over
the NYS&W mainline and into history.
The locomotives were 4052, 4006, 4002 & 3634.
To answer the question publicly, Yes.. I did make the
sign. Yes.. it is in my basement. Yes.. There will be a model of it available
for those who have HO SD70's!
We plan to include the basic train makeup will along
with the sign for those who wish to model the actual train. Hey, I do it
too! :-)
#1800 and 1802, two of three very new EMD GP18's at Little Ferry Yard
in the mid 60's.
Today, the Alco S2 #206 (at left) is part of the United Railway Historical
Society (URHS)
"NJ Transportation Museum" collection, the roundhouse is gone and this
area is now part
of the CSX intermodal yard. On their third repaint, the GP18's are
still the primary local power.
Over 35 years after EMD's GP20 Demonstrators ran on the NYS&W,
TP&W GP20 #2064
teams up with GP18 #1800 on a local train. When the Susquehanna took
control over the
Toledo, Peoria & Western in 1997, they began to repair, repaint
and renumber the TP&W's
GP20 fleet. TP&W 2012 was the first to be run through the Utica
shops and emerged as 2060.
In 2000, the TP&W was sold again and the NYS&W took ownership
of 4 TP&W locomotives...
2062, 2064, 2066 and a NYCentral painted F7. The F7 was leased then
sold to the
Adirondak Scenic Railroad and paired with their ex-Alaska RR F unit
for passenger excursions.