Abolished NS 290: NS 290 was abolished in October of 2018. Here it is a little over a year prior to its abolishment heading east on Conrail Lehigh Line Track #2 with a pair of C44-9W (Dash ... (more)

NS 20E heads east on Conrail's Lehigh Line. Behind the leader is NS 4004 (AC44C6M) which is painted in a special paint scheme: black (cab area), blue mane (near cab), and gray (body) with white an... (more)

Dawn Detour: On December 08, 2017, CSX Q404 derailed at Townley Interlocking suspending all freight and passenger traffic on Conrail's Lehigh Line at its busiest location: Union, NJ. Becaus... (more)

Detour on the Road Less Travelled: Because of the derailment of CSX Q404 at Townley Interlocking in Union, NJ on 12/08/17, most freight traffic to/from the greater New York City area needed... (more)

Detour: On December 08, 2017, CSX Q404 derailed at Townley Interlocking suspending all freight and passenger traffic on Conrail's Lehigh Line at one of its busiest locations: Union, NJ. Bec... (more)

NS 6K4 heading east on Conrail's Port Reading Secondary bound for Port Reading/Carteret for its ultimate destination of Motiva in Sewaren. The second unit is NS 9460 (C44-9W). The leader was rebui... (more)

NS 20R is a train that can take Conrail's Lehigh Line or Port Reading Secondary eastward. In this photo, NS 20R was to take the Lehigh Line, but as it was approaching CP Bound Brook, the North Jer... (more)

Spring is in the Air

Mondays on the Lehigh tend to be slow, and the weather forecast of partly to mostly sunny skies was a bust. So I took a stroll through a cemetery toting alo... (more)

Recently, CSX has been running distributive power at the rear of some trains. Here is a distributive power unit trailing an late day eastbound manifest.

The Lehigh Valley's transition back to Cornell Red is readily apparent as SJ-4 makes a set-out at South Plainfield Yard. Lead locomotive, RS11 7642, has fairly recently been repainted in Tuscan R... (more)

LV GP18 #304 leads leased BAR GP7 #65 and GP38AC #310 on an eastbound about to make a set-out at South Plainfield Yard. 304 is only a few months removed from a rebuild at ICG's Paducah shops wher... (more)