Eastbound on the Raritan Valley Line, Nov 7th, 1996 Honestly, you are all lucky that the NJT got videotaped the way it did. I live on Long Island, and I was mainly taking pictures of LIRR trains. The LIRR had GP38-2's, MP15AC's, and "cab car" units that had HEP generators in the bodies of old , de-motored F9's and FA2's. But their days were numbered, and the passenger coaches were relics from the 1950's. At the same time, CONRAIL was being split up, and I wanted to photograph the BLUE units before they went away... I did a little research and I found out that if I ride the LIRR to Penn Station, I can change trains there and take NJT to either Roselle Park or Bound Brook, which happen to be adjacent to the CONRAIL Lehigh Valley Line. So I went with the intent of taping the CONRAIL trains, BUT, since the NJT was so close by and I was bored between waiting for CONRAIL to show up, I taped the NJT too. These vids were shot during 1996 and 1997. Now, being from Long Island, and knowing the decrepitude of LIRR equipment in the 1990's, I thought the NJT trains were modern and stainless steel, unlike the LIRR which was all rusty. I didn't know that NJT was going to replace the equipment so soon.
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