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Owner: Conrail
Model:EMD E8ABuilt As:PRR 5796 (E8A)
Serial Number:15661Order No:6354
Frame Number:6354-A14Built:6/1952
Notes:Ex-PC, Exx-PRR
Other locos with this serial:  CR 4256(E8A) PC 4256(E8A) PRR 5796(E8A)
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CR E-8A 4256
Title:  CR E-8A 4256
Description:  In fresh CR blue, former PC E-8A 4256 leads a trio of E-units backing into the South Amboy engine terminal.
Photo Date:  3/11/1978  Upload Date: 7/2/2015 4:29:23 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  CR 4256(E8A)
Views:  378   Comments: 1
CR E-8A 4256
Title:  CR E-8A 4256
Description:  In fresh CR blue, former PC E-8A 4256 leads a trio of E-units backing into the South Amboy engine terminal.
Photo Date:  3/11/1978  Upload Date: 7/2/2015 4:40:17 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  CR 4256(E8A) PC 4326(E8A)
Views:  435   Comments: 0
CR E-8A 4256
Title:  CR E-8A 4256
Description:  In fresh CR blue, former PC E-8A 4256 leads a trio of E-units backing into the South Amboy engine terminal.
Photo Date:  3/11/1978  Upload Date: 7/2/2015 4:41:51 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  CR 4256(E8A)
Views:  433   Comments: 0
PC E-8A 4326 and CR 4256
Title:  PC E-8A 4326 and CR 4256
Description:  Former Harrisburg-based PC E-8A 4326 and CR 4256 take a rest outside the South Amboy engine facility on March 11, 1978.
Photo Date:  3/11/1978  Upload Date: 1/1/2018 9:23:24 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PC 4326(E8A) CR 4256(E8A)
Views:  397   Comments: 0
CR E-8A 4256
Title:  CR E-8A 4256
Description:  Showing fresh CR blue, E-8A 4256 and former PC 4326 line up outside the South Amboy locomotive shop.
Photo Date:  3/11/1978  Upload Date: 7/3/2015 3:13:12 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 4256(E8A)
Views:  193   Comments: 1
Electro-Motive Division E-8A 4256
Title:  Electro-Motive Division E-8A 4256
Description:  ex-Penn-Central, exx-Pennsylvania Railroad
Photo Date:  1/24/1979  Upload Date: 3/23/2008 8:34:48 PM
Location:  Elizabethport Yard, NJ
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4256(E8A)
Views:  718   Comments: 2
Conrail E unit
Title:  Conrail E unit
Description:  A North Jersey Coast train-still NY & Long Branch to most of us in those days-has turned on the loop at Bay Head Jct and approaches the station to take on passengers for New York. The train will swap its E8s for a GG 1 at South Amboy.
Photo Date:  6/8/1979  Upload Date: 8/8/2012 12:56:50 AM
Location:  Bay Head, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CR 4256(E8A) DOTX 210(E8A)
Views:  1235   Comments: 2
The only way to ride
Title:  The only way to ride
Description:  If you cant ride in the engine. Up until NJ Transit reequipped its trains, starting in the mid 1980s, there was a lot of hand me down equipment in service that had been owned by the predecessor roads, much of it cars that were rendered excess as train offs mounted in the 1960s, and finally when Amtrak started in 1971. Almost all of the cars had dutch doors, which were a wonderful place to ride on a nice day. The practice was long standing, and train crews generally didnt chase you. Im riding the NY & Long Branch down on the shore as we approach a station I cant recall, the train sweeping around a long curve behind a pair of E 8s. I always liked the signals on the Bay Head line, one of which is at left. They reminded me of the ACL.
Photo Date:  6/8/1979  Upload Date: 12/12/2016 5:04:28 AM
Location:  Middletown, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CR 4256(E8A) DOTX 210(E8A)
Views:  539   Comments: 2
USDOT E8
Title:  USDOT E8
Description:  US DOT E8 210, lettered "Transportation Safety Institute" is the trailing unit on todays mid day Bay Head run from New York.
Photo Date:  6/8/1979  Upload Date: 8/8/2012 1:50:59 AM
Location:  Bay Head, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  DOTX 210(E8A) CR 4256(E8A)
Views:  1171   Comments: 1
CR 4256
Title:  CR 4256
Description:  Borrowed power, a blue dip, and EL painted E8A!
Photo Date:  8/1/1979  Upload Date: 5/14/2008 6:32:39 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4256(E8A) CR 4014(E8A)
Views:  1043   Comments: 4
CR 4256
Title:  CR 4256
Description:  A blue dip and one of the last remaining EL painted E8As pulling NJ commuters
Photo Date:  8/1/1979  Upload Date: 12/5/2004 10:11:56 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4256(E8A) CR 4014(E8A)
Views:  1403   Comments: 4
Conrail EMD E8A No. 4256
Title:  Conrail EMD E8A No. 4256
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/19/1979  Upload Date: 9/22/2007 5:45:54 PM
Location:  Elizabethport Yard, NJ
Author:  Bill Rogerson
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 4256(E8A)
Views:  551   Comments: 0
Conrail Diesel Locomotives
Title:  Conrail Diesel Locomotives
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/19/1979  Upload Date: 9/22/2007 5:54:26 PM
Location:  Elizabethport Yard, NJ
Author:  Bill Rogerson
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 4256(E8A)
Views:  525   Comments: 0


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