NJ Transit arrives in Boonton. The train is passing the former DL&W station complex.

NJT1001 is passing the former DL&W Boonton station complex, as it arrives at the NJ Transit platform.

Banking It

It’s late afternoon and the New Jersey Transit train #1003 with engine 4203 at the point and five passenger cars behind is shown slightly banking towards the righ... (more)

The straight track through Boonton

NJT train #1001 with engine 4219 at the point and four cars behind is about to head under the Wooten Avenue bridge in east Boonton. To the ... (more)

A Pennsy pickup trucks sits alongside a GG-1 during the URHS night photo shoot at their Boonton restoration facility.

NJ Transit Hoboken to Hackettstown train 1001 scoot past the URHS's Boonton Yard, formerly known as the Lackawanna Railroad's West Yard.

PRR GG-1 4877 was a star attraction at the URHS Open House, held on September 25, 2016. The locomotive was coupled to PRR observation car 97.

Out-lawed and up the grade @ Boonton

The NS-H02 crew were outlawed at Boonton NS with engine 3010 sitting static on former Westbound track now a yard track at the former L... (more)

"Silent U-Boat"

Sitting dormant is the face of passenger railroading in New Jersey from the 1970s-1990s, the U34CH. The U34CH was capable of running both freight and passenger tr... (more)

A venerable Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 glides silently past a PRR Maintenance-of-Way truck as it pulls into the yard. Actually, truck owner Ken Briers graciously drove this 1950 Ford F-1 up to B... (more)

New York & Long Branch conductor Richard Morgan fills out his timesheet in his caboose at the end of a long day on the job. In reality, model Richard Morgan poses with original NY&LB paperwork... (more)

On September 25, 2016, the United Railroad Historical Society hosted its annual pop up train museum in Boonton, New Jersey. Here, we have a view of one of the old PCC cars that used to operate on ... (more)

The United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey held a night photo secession on September 24 at Boonton Township, NJ. Here Pennsylvania GG1 number 4877 sits next to a fully restored PRR 1950... (more)