SHOW or TELL... your favorite CNJ-JERSEY CENTRAL loco or train

The 2410:

 

 

 

Bob

The CNJ had a lot of nice looking locomotives. My favorite diesel is the TM pictured above and I like a too many of their steam engines to pick one as a favorite.

If MTH hadn't canceled the 3/2 version of the Trainmaster, there would be one on my layout. 

 

I always had a soft spot for the Baldwin cab units.  The freight units had a longer career than the passenger ones, but both very attractive locomotives. 

 

It is hard to find a favorite for me on the CNJ though because so much of it was unique to the CNJ or least rare.  I saw the GP40Ps in all their paint scheme outside of the fading disco stripe some now wear in their greatly rebuilt form.  Liked them.  I liked the flat long hood of the GP7Ps.  In steam the Camelbacks were simply an anachronism at the end while the Pacifics had a lot of class.    For my home layout, my CNJ roster will consist eventually of all the major equipment that ran 1953-1956 so I can catch the end of steam as well as all those interesting diesel designs.  Now about those steel commuter cars ..... some day maybe a scale version?  Hope so!

Lots of CNJ on my link below. The CNJ is one of my faves. Fond memories of the line!

 

Three words:

 

THE BLUE COMET

My first and still my favorite: But I love this one:

 

So hard to choose! Although I did just add an Sw1 and the new Trainmaster.

 

Steve C.

Well, there's always these two in 1:1 scale:  CNJ Commuter Club Car "Jersey Coast" and CNJ caboose 91529 in the "Coast Guard" scheme at the Whippany Railway Museum in NJ...

http://www.whippanyrailwaymuse...ars/the-jersey-coast

http://www.whippanyrailwaymuse...ilroad-of-new-jersey

 

Great lineup Steve.

 

Love the Blue Comet, in standard gauge or any gauge.

 

 

 

Camelbacks are awesome too.

 

The 'Green Bullet' Baldwin and passenger cars are distinctive in their CNJ livery.

 

 

 

 

When I get my PS2 upgraded MTH Premier Blue Comet back from the repair shop, I will glady show it with all 7 matching cars.... That's definitely my favorite CNJ train, and I think MTH's model is the best aesthetically.

What a great thread, Walter!  But then again, I'm a bit biased as the CNJ is also my favorite road.  My grandfather was an engineer on the CNJ  (see photos below), and I've been a fan my whole life.  My O-gauge CNJ roster consists of over 25 locomotives and probably 100 or so other pieces of rolling stock...I can't pick a favorite!!

 

Here's my grandfather at the controls of CNJ #107 as it takes on water and coal at the yard in Ashley, PA...

 

And here he is (on the right) posing with a co-worker in front of CNJ #1601 in Wilkes-Barre, PA...

 

And here's a pair of CNJ Geeps and a CNJ caboose currently in service on my small basement layout.  The caboose weathering was done by Steve P. (or "SIRT" as we know him here on the forum)...

 

mikado 4501...Although the first MTH Premier BC engine was PS-1, there is a second MTH Premier version and different roadnumber BC engine that came factory equipped with PS-2. Also, MTH offered, with that PS-2 loco, a set of matching BC passenger cars...but the cars were different names than the original 5 car BC set. Hopefully the new MTH Premier PS-3 BC due later this year will have the missing/remaining BC car names to allow one to recreate all 3 BC train sets in a prototypical fashion.

 

PaPaT...Those Rail King cars look better, I think with the Premier 'Bullet' locomotive as only the BC diner actually had 6-wheel trucks.

 

Either way, any CNJ train or locomotive looks sharp to me.

 

JoeyA...My family worked on the CNJ too. My grandfather on the Sandy Hook steamers and my uncle was a tugboat deckhand.

 

Thanks.

 

Walter M. Matuch 

 

Jersey Central #113. Located in Minersville, PA. I have to do some changes to my MTH version. 

 

 

Here's one of them 

Same here. I loved the Camelbacks I would see from my schoolyard along the tracks in Point Pleasant on the NY&LB.

 

Here's my first MU, an MTH GP-9 and Williams GP-7 with PS2 upgrade. The GP-9 was having trouble with 18 cars on my 2.5% curved upgrade, hence the MU.

 

 

 

MTH Camel in the Bay Head yard

 

 

 

At the engine house. The RS-3 in the background is also a favorite. A Weaver with PS2 upgrade, and an awesome sounding RS-11 sound file.

 

 

Having fun on the NY&LB!

Regards,

Gary F.

My favorite is the K-Line Tank Engine, I also have the MTH Camelback that I converted to TMCC, but I just think the detailing on the K-Line is really nice.

 

 

Gary - Love your Bayhead loop!  I am modeling the NY&LB in 2 Rail O and having a heck of a time finding the CNJ equipment for it.  So far I have a Reading Weaver Pacific that I am going to have converted from three rail to two and modify into an 820 series Pacific, an old Kemtron GP7 that I need to put the lighting equipment box on the end of the long hood, a Weaver RS3, and a few Walthers passenger cars that can make up some of my business equipment.  Really looking for accurate CNJ commuter cars.  On the PRR side of things I'm completely covered.