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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.  

Enough Teases, Here’s What’s New and Updated for the Start of 2021!

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Ventura County Railway No. 2
Anyone who knows where I’ve traveled or has visited the site with some frequency over the years may have noticed that the Bus Photo of the Month for January 2021 was from a city that had not been included on Oren’s Transit Page before, and that I’ve been highlighting a number of new website sections over the past few weeks. 

The biggest and most noteworthy additions are the brand new sections for Baltimore, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, and Austin.  As I noted in a recent post, there was a certain amount of irony to the fact I grew up 40 miles from Baltimore and am an avid Orioles fan, yet the city had not been featured on this site until recently.  Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, and Austin were destinations that I traveled to in late 2019 and early 2020 before the Covid-19 pandemic, and I am thankful to have had the opportunity to make those trips when I did.  

I also took advantage of some time I had recently to move some photos that had been on the Uncaptioned Photos page for quite awhile and put them in more appropriate places on the website, most notably, the photos of the Pikes Peak Cog Railway now have their own page.  Perhaps you found the new material on your own, but if not, here is the full listing of where new photos were recently added to the site, with new sections highlighted in bold and italics.