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Rail Photo of the Month: May 2025

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Comet I 5113

Location: Southern California Railway Museum, Perris, CA
Operator of Vehicle: New Jersey Transit
Date of Photo: January 19, 2020

Railcars can sometimes wind up far from where you expect them to, especially in their retirements.  The “Comet” railcar is a locomotive hauled commuter rail car, originally developed by Pullman-Standard.  They entered service for New Jersey Transit in 1970.  However, they were only able to serve low level platforms and only some of the fleet received modifications to serve high platforms in 1987.  Therefore, New Jersey Transit opted to lease or sell them to railroads in the western United States that exclusively have low level platforms on their commuter rail systems.  This particular cab car, along with some other Comet Is, were sent to Metrolink in the Los Angeles area.  Following their final retirement by Metrolink, some of them were acquired by the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris, California, where they are now part of the museum collection.  

For more photos of the New Jersey Transit Comet Is, please click here.  

Some Things Are Worth Waiting For…

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New Flyer XE60 19506
Very observant visitors to this site might have noticed two things recently.  First, it has been a very long time (nearly two years in fact) since any announcements of new photos being posted to Oren’s Transit Page have been made.  Second, the January 2023 Bus Photo of the Month came from a city that was not included on Oren’s Transit Page before.  The reasons for this are several fold.  In 2021, travel was slowly resuming and the Oren’s Transit Page Baby (as he was known then) required a level of care that was age-appropriate but one that does not facilitate frequent website updates.  In 2022, travel really took off again, as my travels took me not only up and down the Northeast Corridor but to the Florida panhandle, San Diego, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Israel, and Greece.  As you can imagine, travels that extensive generate lots of photos, which in turn, take time to organize, touch up, caption, and post.  The good news is I’ve made some headway on that front, and I believe any photos I took prior to May 2022 are now online.

The “highlights” from this update in my opinion in “chronological” order are:

The rest of 2022’s photos are still to come, and I’ve already taken one trip within the US in 2023 and I’m sure more are to come, so stay tuned.  The photos from all those travels will be posted.  Eventually.

Here is the full listing of where new photos were added to the site, with new sections highlighted in bold and italics.