CNJ: A Day Out in Bayonne
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Another classic from the camera of George H Meyer. A ferry trip across the Hudson from Manhattan to Jersey City starts an afternoon of action at Bayonne, New Jersey on the Jersey Central. EMD, Alco, and FM power on both passenger and freight trains are seen, as well as Budd RDC's. A late afternoon return trip on the ferry yields views of New Haven and Erie carfloats, a pair of ocean liners departing, and the Manhattan skyline including the Empire State Building. Sounds added from my video library.
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I grew up along the LVRR and my dad grew up along the CNJ in Roselle. He took me on a few rides to Bayonne before NJDOT cancelled the service in 1978. I even had an RDC cab ride from Cranford to W. 8th Street. Thank you for the video. It really makes the William Brennan CNJ books come to life!
Thank you for allowing us to enjoy these great films looking back on long gone railroads and cool city scenes. Thank you. Mark
Unreal footage. Thank you so much for sharing. Sitting here watching this with my father, who grew up in Bayonne in the 60's and 70's. Some of his fondest memories as a youth were along the CNJ in Bayonne watching the trains go by.
You MUST be a professional sound engineer! I know RR sounds and in every shot the sounds fit perfectly. And the corrugated powered cars they had a distinct sound of their own. I cannot imagine anyone (Hollywood included) who could work those sounds into that footage more perfectly than you did. I spent part of my childhood in L.I. where most of the trains near me were electric MU’s, and if my parents went shopping up in Hicksville I’d get SO excited at the aight of a LIRR Orange and Gunmetal Gray Alco or RSD diesel. To me, THOSE were “real” trains as were the rolling stock that could ‘t power itself.
These vids make me SAD. Because the clearest memories I have of Jersey Central are the passenger trains along the Raritan Valley line, the Freights that'd go by, even Budd cars, but I NEVER got to see baggage and passenger stock like in this vid, the Ferryboats, I didn't know Trainmasters really until recently, and I didn't even know they ran RS's!! And don't START me on the Steam Era locos!! I wasn't born until 1965!
I SO would have loved to see the heyday of CRRNJ.....NJT gets Boring, and these new designs, ALP, Bombardier....don't even LOOK like locomotives. Thankfully, we have the videos and Museums about! Still watching, learning!!
When I was in college, my pal and I simply wandered into the loco depot at Eport. No one bothered us, we just took pictures. Great memories. CNJ had about the best assortment of first generation diesel power. All gone, so sad. We also used to hike from home to Aldene, this was before the ramp to the LV, about 1963. Plenty of action there with baby face baldwins, etc. This is a fantastic video, thanks!
I'm enjoying your videos.
Excellent! I never imagined RDCs would sound like that, but the Alco RS3s I saw in the '50s always poured black smoke from their stacks and their engines always sounded so _loose_ that I figure they'd go to lunch at any moment. Great footage; thanks for posting.
Great video awesome footage and great sound mixing, excellent job.
Excellent video with beautiful vintage film of Alco and FM units. I also like the smokin Budd RDC cars. Great skyline city views as well. Awesome 👍
What fantastic shots of the old Alco at 1:38 and the RDC's at 2:30, both making some impressive smoke signals. And brilliant sound once again.
Thanks, I really appreciate favorable comments about the sound, as it's a bit of work to find just the right audio to fit the action on screen, sometimes requiring blending of 2 or more sources to get the right "feel". I get the biggest kick out of people who think the sound was recorded live on scene.
Just one fantastic video. Thanks for sharing. Dave
Oh my god, you don’t know how different it is. All this track is now a highway except a single track owned by CSX, and there’s a super fancy bridge leading to 8th street station on an electric lightrail, that’s more like a metro.
Fantastic filming ,awsum sounds too, thanks for sharing .
You're getting pretty good at syncing sound into these videos. I caught the M3 too, but got over it quickly. And it's always good to hear FMs, synced or otherwise. Brings back fond memories of West Eighth Street. I used that station often, traveling from Dunellen to my grandparents' in Bayonne, unless I could catch a local to 33rd Street, and walk three blocks to their house. At least, until the service ended altogether. I'm guessing this was shot after 1962 (you can see the Verrazano bridge in the background from the ferry, and it opened in '62) but before 1967, when passenger service was diverted to Newark by the Aldene Plan and Bayonne only had shuttles from Cranford. Might even have been before that, since the CNJ started using their SD35s on mainline freights around 1965 and freed up the Trainmasters for commuter service. Thanks for posting these, keep them coming!
Love..these..old..railroad..videos
Great video.....Thank you so much for taking me back...
Fabulous views! What a treat!
It’s insane because all we have now is a small NJT lightrail and a freight yard
Looked like the Andrea Doria in New York Harbor, the ship that sank in the Georges Bank back in 56...Another quality outing thanks!
A very interesting compilation of scenes and first generation diesels. I have pictures of LIRR ALCO RS3's making similar columns of black smoke on start up. Wasn't aware the the RDC's made so much exhaust smoke. Seems the FM's were the cleanest of the bunch. Seeing both the New York City skyline and the outbound ocean liners was icing on the cake. Thanks for putting this together and adding the sound effects. Well done!
Fantastic!
Outstanding video. Cool to see the RS and RDC
Loved it!
Very nice video, put together well ! 👽
Wonder what fuel were they burning in those RDC's? I've never seen them smoke that badly before! That said, this is a fabulous look back. Thank you!
That's the GM110 for ya! Not the most efficient motors on the planet, but for a low budget solution for low patronage, they got the job done.
Those Budds always smoked like that in my recollection, especially if pulling from a standing start on the steep grade to the bridge from West Eighth Street, which I think may have been around 2%.
Absolutely amazing! Your sound mixing was very good. Except for the air horn on RS3 1549 that had a single note Leslie air horn. That went BAMP! when blown!
Otherwise absolutely fantastic!
Yeah that tilt bell Nathan M3 snuck in there, didn't realize it until after it was rendered. Didn't want to re- render just for that little glitch. Good ear and thanks for your comments.
The locomotive @4:54 is called a train master
Neat footage 👍
A really fine clip. I could hear a sound loop in the background as the ferry floats along the JC pier. Man, those engines bleached a lot smoke. Yuck.
That liner at the end was beautiful. Portuguese I think if I remember rightly.
Yes, looks like the SS Funchal.
With the Verrazano complete here (upper deck only), this seems to be spring/summer 1965.
Did anyone notice the double ended Baldwin at 0:59 over to the right? Great film!
Good call! I wondered if anyone else noticed it too.
1:31 1 year late but is that the CNJ’s Newark Bay Lift Bridge in the background on the right?
Yes.
was that the 8th street station?
Yes, double checked on the web with old photos.
@@fmnut Hello again. Permission to use portions of this video for an upcoming documentary on an ex-CNJ engine? I will give you credit in the video.
@@Pensyfan19 permission granted. Thanks for watching.
Was that an EMD GP 7 per chance? I'm biased .. love EMD and Detroit RDC two stroker engines. Your sound is prime material ... as usual.
Yes, it was a GP7.
Are you gonna do a video on the DT&I?
No, sorry, never got any shots of it. If someone out there has some film I would be happy to transfer and edit it.
Where were the engines located on those Budd RDCs?
Under the floor. One engine per truck driven through a torque converter to the inboard axle. 2x Detroit Diesel 6-110 two stroke inline engines. Also used in contemporary GM buses.
I think they were a little bigger (in displacement) than typical highway Detroits of the day which were more likely 6-53s or 6-71s. But they may have been used in Euclid quarry trucks and other off-road stuff.
Really interesting. Does any of this trackage still exist?
Most of it is gone.
Some there… but the bridge in the background is surely gone!!
5:46 the builds and ship docks where demolished to make room for the twin towers and world f center