Signs of spring are slowly arriving in Northern New Jersey. On a cool, windy spring afternoon, Conrail ME-2 has just cleared the Northeast Corridor and shoves up the General Tire lead past the ba... (more)

The dynamic duo of NS 5298 and CSXT 2798 (both former Conrail GP38-2s) shove a short ME-2 across Amtrak's impressive Raritan River viaduct. The graffiti-covered and heavily weathered caboose is e... (more)

A three-unit consist of former Conrail SD40-2s leads a lengthy H65 out of Allentown Yard. Today's train is heavy with frac sand loads heading to the Delaware-Lackawanna interchange at Slateford J... (more)

As of this date, CSX is known for frequently running consists of older CP (including DME and ICE) units on ethanol trains into New Jersey. On this day, NS got into the game with a train bound for ... (more)

A late-running 211 passes CP 88 mid-afternoon in the shadow of the once-great and thriving Bethlehem Steel mill. The mill property has since been subdivided and contains a wide variety of busines... (more)

LVRB is able to assemble a locomotive consist not seen often in 2013. An MP15DC-SW7-MP15DC consist drops a small amount of interchange traffic for NS (2 cars) and CP (3 cars) in the River Yard at... (more)

The Red Unit of the Ringling Brother's Barnum & Bailey Circus Train heads west for Youngstown, OH with NS 9396 & 2653 in the lead.

The flow of ethanol trains into New Jersey continues unabated, even on Easter Sunday. This train had arrived the day before as CSX K634 off the River Subdivision. Now, one day later with a Conra... (more)

Q010 rolls through the S-curve at Ridgefield Park on the approach to CP5 with a UP SD70M in the lead. The train is relatively short, and the entire consist can be seen in this view. At left is t... (more)

An evening westbound commuter train departs Edison station at dusk. The signals in the distance are not usually visible during the day, but as darkness falls we can see that this train has an app... (more)

I haven't caught an OI-16 in a while, but it was good to see that Conrail still occasionally assigns a pair of former Erie Lackawanna SD45-2s to this train. OI-16 has just arrived at Port Reading... (more)

CP power continues to frequent northern New Jersey on ethanol trains from the Midwest. This set of ICE units arrived on CSX K408 Saturday afternoon and was unloaded by Sunday morning. A Conrail ... (more)

Conrail ME-2 had to make a roundabout move to cross over from track 1 to track 4 after leaving Metuchen Yard on this day. Here the train is seen waiting for a clear signal at EDISON Interlocking ... (more)

Conrail ME-2 makes a quick run on the Northeast Corridor from the National Can Lead (about a mile in the distance) to the General Tire Lead (adjacent to the platform at left). The crew would work... (more)

A midday inbound commuter train from Gladstone departs for Hoboken Terminal. This train was an interesting contrast to the MidTOWN Direct train that stopped here less than 10 minutes earlier. Fo... (more)