NJ Transit recently announced, via a social media post, that it has introduced a new patriotic paint scheme on the ALP-45DP 4526 locomotive to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the U.S.
The agency joins several other railroads, including Wheeling & Lake Erie (W&LE), East Penn Railroad (ESPN), Genesee & Wyoming (G&W), Reading & Northern (R&N), Pennsylvania & Southern (P&S), Nevada Northern Railway Museum (NNRY), and North Shore Railroad (NSHR), in painting a locomotive a in red, white, and blue scheme as part of a tradition started during America’s Bicentennial in 1976.
