Passenger Trains > NJ Transit ALP46 on the Raritan Valley Line

In this clip, we catch a unique NJ Transit move on the Raritan Valley Line in Bound Brook, NJ.

Train "MM-90" is an MMC yard move from the NJT Maintenance facility in Kearny to Raritan, NJ and return. In this move however, a cab car or eastward-facing locomotive was unavailable for the trip. So filling is as the "cab car", NJT ALP46, an electric locomotive, is being utilized for this move. One of the diesels that are actually providing the power, in the form of Metro-North F40PH-3C locomotive #4910. This is also an uncommon sight on this side of the NJT system, as these engines are generally only seen on the Hoboken Division.

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Thanks for the video.

NJ Transit runs "hospital" or "shop" trains on many lines to fetch equipment that was set out, or removed from service. Often a crazy quilt of electric, single level, diesel, multi-level, electric, etc. Definitely unusual to see a Metro-North unit on the Newark side, though. And, with an ALP-46 on the Raritan line is a double unusual.

Wow that electric engine is really quiet! Is that like "caterpillar" technology

Looks like a model railroad.

Definitely a neat catch!

elu34ch Wrote:
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> Wow that electric engine is really quiet! Is that
> like "caterpillar" technology


The giant extension cord is on the far side of the unit, so you may not have seen it...