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Jersey Central Diesels by George Bernet w/ dust jacket 1990
Jersey Central Diesels by George Bernet
Hard Cover with dust jacket
Copyright 1990 FIRST PRINTING
192 pages
Includes correction pages.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction5
Chapter 1#100010
Chapter 2Yard Switchers14
Chapter 3FREIGHT & PASSENGER CAB UNITS38
Chapter 4ROADSWITCHERS66
Chapter 5SECOND GENERATION FREIGIIT POWER108
Chapter 6SECOND GENERATION PASSENGER POWER114
Chapter 7THE SECONDHAND FLEET120
Chapter 8OLD, NEW, BORROWED AND USUALLY BLUE -
THE LEASED FLEET136
Chapter 9OPTIONS AND THEIR USE144
JERSEY CENTRAL IN COLOR145
Chapter 10ALL THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW161
Chapter 11NEAR MISSES175
Chapter 12BUDD RDC's176
Chapter 13FREIGHT HAULERS WITHOUT WHEELS185
Appendix ABUILDER'S NUMBERS190
Appendix BDISPOSITIONS191
INDEX192
ABOUT THE BOOK...
On April 1, 1976, the Central Railroad of New
Jersey disappeared into the Conrail system, a sys
tem made of of financially ailing Northeastern rail-
roads. But this book is not a look at why the
railroad disappeared, but rather a look at the
diverse diesel motive power that made the Jersey
Central unique.
The year was 1924 and during that year, General Electric and Ingersoll-Rand placed an "oil-electric" locomotive in a demonstration tour of selected railroads. The CNJ, being one of these roads, hosted this locomotive for a 35-hour tour which included a run to Harrisburg in conjunction with the Reading. While the test was a short one, the Central was obviously impressed and soon placed an order for a stock unit then being built. This unit, #1000, took up residence at the CNJ Bronx, New York Freight Terminal and remained there in service until 1952.
It wasn't until 1938 that the next diesel was placed in CNJ ownership, again a switcher type, to serve the sprawling terminal areas of Jersey City, Bayonne, and Elizabethport. By the late 1940s, diesel development had grown to a point where the CNJ invested in road passenger and freight units. The die was cast and over the next 10 years the CNJ became fully dieselized. A purchase in 1965 of new high horsepower six-axle units brought the era of second generation technology to CNJ rails. Due to financial instability in the late 1960s and in the
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