Entering Browns Yard - The daily transfer train from Oak Island Yard to Browns Yard is crossing Browns Rd. This crossing used to be <... (more)

The Arrow III EMUs (electric multiple units) were built in 1977 and 1978 by General Electric, and were initially assigned to operate on former Penn Central electrified lines. Today, the Arrow II... (more)

Arrow III MU with old-style pantograph cruising on the North Jersey Coast Line

CSX 2812 (GP38-2) and CSX 4415 (GP40-2) are resting in the Conrail Shared Assets Browns Yard.

The daily mixed freight transfer from Oak Island Yard to Browns Yard rolls over the very last crossing before reaching the Browns Yard area with the special EL painted SD45-2 #1700 leading a fresh... (more)

Heritage Unit Reflection - The Daily Browns yard supply train from Oak Island yard Newark has just arrived (in the distance) with the locomotives now separated and parked in the foregrou... (more)

OI-16 arrives at the north end of Browns Yard with a colorful four-unit consist, all of which are former Conrail units now assigned to the Conrail Shared Assets Operation. NS SD45-2 1700, the Eri... (more)

Morgan Draw - A morning westbound headed for Long Branch shoves across the draw bridge at Cheesequake Creek.

Raritan Bay

Rarely things change on CSAO SA2's normal string of covered hopper cars. A few days prior, the articulated flat car QTTX 130706 appeared with a new transformer for the Red Oak Power Plant. Despite... (more)

2 on 2
For the short time that I've been documenting CSAO SA2, this is another first for me. Conrail Shared Assests, in its truest sense, using 2 EMD GP38-2's (NS 5311 and CSX 2798) fr... (more)

Contrail's AmeriSteel Job heads north out of Browns Yard into the setting sun. The train will soon move onto former Raritan River Railroad trackage.

Crossing the Raritan -The Oak Island Yard to Browns Yard daily transfer is only freight train to regularly cross this 100+ year old Ex-Pennsy swing bridge - the NJCL River Draw.

Cormorants on the Raritan - Gulls and cormorants perch on old dock pilings, while a morning train direct from Bay Head to Hoboken travels the shoreline of the Raritan Bay. Photo taken f... (more)

Conrail's JR-2 has the OI-16 in tow, as it approaches Cheesequake Road. In a few miles the train will be at its terminus, Brown's Yard in Old Bridge. Once again the OI-16 has NS 1700, in full Erie... (more)