25 years of the Browns yard santa train rolling through downtown jamesburg

SA31 pauses in town while getting permission to enter the Amboy Secondary to head back to Browns Yard. Three to four days a week Jamesburg is a busy junction in the afternoon with two trains using... (more)

Fishermen pay little or no attention to the Conrail local rolling past them while two ducks take refuge from the photographer in the water. The sun is only a few minutes from setting but still bat... (more)

A perfect thin layer of clouds made it possible to try a new angle in Jamesburg.

SA31 cruises over fresh ballast on the Freehold Industrial Track which was dumped after Hurricane Irene caused Lake Manalapan to rise and weaken the causeway and bridge approach.

NS 1703 is about to cross Prospect Plains Rd. as it heads back towards Browns Yard after clearing the Hightstown Industrial down to Cranbury Station. It's rare enough to catch a train south of the... (more)

The Conrail Shared Assets Browns Yard Santa Train rolls through Jamesburg, New Jersey, on Conrail Shared Assets' Freehold Industrial Track. The train terminated in Freehold, where toys were handed... (more)

Just because there aren't any snow pictures coming out of New Jersey, doesn't mean it's not cold! Evident in this shot as SA31 crosses a mostly frozen Lake Manalapan.

With only a few minutes of sunlight left on a hot July evening, CSXT 4423 and 7 cars emerge from the woods and cross Lake Manalapan on the return trip from Freehold to Browns Yard. The crew will t... (more)

CSXT 4431 crosses the bridge over Lake Manalapan.

Browns Yard local SA31 slowly makes its way through downtown Jamesurg with a NS GP38-2 still wearing its Conrail paint as it heads east.

Santa gets an escort from the Jamesburg Fire Department as he arrives in town just before sunset. In a few blocks, the train will stop so Santa can visit with the local children. To see (and hear)... (more)

The holiday trains will be out in force this coming weekend in New Jersey, with over a half a dozen special trains out roaming the rails. Here's a look at last year's Conrail Santa Train arriving ... (more)

A few minutes before sunset, the sun finds a small window in the trees and illuminates the nose of CSXT GP38-2 2798 as she and NS GP38-2 5311 team up to pull the local up the grade from the Amboy ... (more)