Conrail MA-2 spots loaded cars at Roma Food on a beautiful spring afternoon. One of the cars appears to be a former Tropicana reefer. Roma's attention to landscaping makes this one of the more p... (more)

A rather lengthy Conrail MA-2 local heads back to Manville Yard after working in South Plainfield. It seems like there is a crew member keeping vigilant watch from every available window in this ... (more)

NS 290 heads through Piscataway with a good sized train of autoracks.

Q300 rolls through Piscataway on track 1 with a short train. The crew has just finished working Manville Yard and should be arriving at Oak Island Yard within an hour.

A Dash 9 leads this mixed freight out of the morning shadows, east bound on the Lehigh Line.

It was nice to see something other than a CSX GEVO leading a train on the Lehigh Line today. Here a CSX "GP38-2S" leads a relatively new CSXT ES44AC 3053 and a not-so-new CW40-8 7671, each in a d... (more)

Low early morning sun highlights the fall color along the Lehigh Line as 18G heads east for Oak Island Yard.

SP Lives! Well, sort of. A former Southern Pacific rebuilt SD40 (ex-SP 7336) leads Q300 east on the Lehigh Line. The sun held out for this train as it became mostly cloudy soon after on ... (more)

A nice set of "older" EMDs leads Q439 west on a beautiful late summer afternoon. The Prospect Ave. grade crossing will be closed for rehabilitation in the coming week, and it seems the nearby swi... (more)

Conrail MA-80, with NS 5611, on its way to South Plainfield with coil steel cars.

NS 9765 in the lead, heading eastbound through Piscataway on the Lehigh Line.

An eastbound Norfolk Southern stack train passes through Piscataway, NJ on an early September evening. Canon EOS 40D, Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC

CSXT ES44DC 5220 heads up a dog's breakfast locomotive consist on the point of manifest Q300 through northern New Jersey. Trailing the 5220 was MEC SD40-2 619, MEC high hood GP40 371, CSXT AC4400C... (more)

Before a large storm system covered the Northeast, some blue morning skies created "the calm before the storm" as Q300 pounds through Piscataway with an ex-BN SD40-2 leading a CSX ES44AC.

A pair of GP38-2s (the trailing unit is a rebuilt ex-SOU GP38) lead Conrail MA-80 with a typical block of coil steel cars for South Plainfield.