Oh, Gs: Photographing the Pennsy’s Legacy Around New York, 1973-1983
Presented by Oren Helbok

18-year-old Oren Helbok poses with ex-PRR GG-1 No. 4879, now preserved as part of the URHS collection.

A native of the Bronx, Oren B. Helbok will present “Oh, Gs: Photographing the Pennsy’s Legacy Around New York, 1973-1983”. Beginning as an eight-year-old and continuing until the week that he left for college, Oren photographed GG1s working for Amtrak and NJTransit (and in one case Conrail), mostly on the mainline between Penn Station in Manhattan and Rahway and on the branch to South Amboy. Originally captured on 35mm Plus-X and Tri-X, few of the images ever got printed; only in the digital age has Oren gone back through his archive and worked on them. More than forty years after the last G pulled a train, he hopes that you too will think of at least a couple of the photos as unearthed treasures.

Oren picked up a camera for the first time in 1972 and since then has documented railroading, not at all comprehensively, from approximately coast to coast. For thirty years a resident of northcentral Pennsylvania, Oren lives closer to more active steam locomotives than he could in any other similarly-sized region of North America. You can find more of his work at WhereSteamLives.net.

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