Reunited For The First Time. GE built U34CH 3372 was purchased by the New Jersey Department of Transportation for Erie Lackawanna to use in commuter service with Pullman-Standard built Comet cars on its diesel lines. Chronically unwashed in that era, its colorful appearance is jarring to those that saw them in service. Ultimately inherited by NJ Transit, it was retired in 1994 and donated to the United Railroad Historical Society of NJ. On September 24, 2023, it sits at the "Museum For A Day" event at Boonton, New Jersey on display next to NJTR GP40PH-2 4101, a heritage unit on loan from NJT for the day, in matching 1970s era NJDOT paint. The two are seeing each other for the first time since being repainted in the modern era, but perhaps even more poignant, they likely never spent much time together during their service careers except perhaps in the shop as the GE was a Hoboken Division based unit and the geep would have been in Newark Division service at that time.
Photos from across RP of NJ Transit’s 40th Anniversary specially painted & wrapped units.
Also included are the fully wrapped Veterans & Pride tribute units.
Not
just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
