Ok, so now I feel old.

On October 29, 1983, I had only passed my 17th birthday a few days earlier. On that morning I traveled from The Bronx to South Amboy, New Jersey for the final day of operation of the former Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 electrics.

At the time, I had built a model railroad focused on South Amboy.

I made this photo to resemble the setting of my HO scale South Amboy.

New Jersey DOT’s GG1 4877 had been repainted in PRR’s tuscan five stripe and I wanted to make the most of the retro-look.

At the time, I was working with my 1937-vintage Leica 3A loaded with Kodak Ektachrome 200.

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