There is only one scheduled opportunity each weekday to catch two diesel-powered trains on the North Jersey Coast Line in Matawan. Here, NJT 4025 (ID: 2303) leads a westbound for Bay Head, while ... (more)

The NJCL passes alongside the Raritan Bay between South Amboy and Aberdeen-Matawan. Across the bay on the right is Staten Island, and on the left is Perth Amboy.

Parkers Creek Bridge - The 2:54 pm out of Long Branch pushes east across Parkers Creek as it starts to slow for the next stop at Little Silver station.

Passengers at Hazlet station wait for NJT 4213 as it pushes west (railroad east) across Bethany Road on Track 2. Meanwhile, on Track 1 an eastbound (railroad west) is picking up passengers.

Water shots along the Conrail Shared Assets portion of the Lehigh Line are difficult to come by. Here, a morning northbound crosses over R... (more)

A morning eastbound crosses Stump Creek on the NJCL.

A morning eastbound whips around a curve, nearly blowing my hat off! Thanks goes to Robert Pisani for identifying the train ID for me.

An afternoon westbound manifest crosses under Lake Ave. on the Conrail Shared Assets Lehigh Main Line.

Moving less than 10 mph, SA31 powers up an incline on the CR Southern Secondary as it passes alongside the Earle Naval Weapons Station boundary on the right.

In the foreground are the pilings of the double-track Matawan Creek Trestle of the NY&LB, which burned down in 1946. Remarkably, a temporary single-track trestle was erected in just 10 days and w... (more)

After serving the Freehold Industrial Track, CSX 4423 makes an early return to Browns Yard w/ SHF. Here it negotiates Willow Street, the first of many road crossings on the Amboy Secondary.

Pine Tree Creek Reflection - The first of five diesel powered trains from Hoboken to Bay Head makes its way over the Cheesequake Marsh, heading for its next stop on the NJCL at Aberdeen-M... (more)

Foreign Power on the Chemical Coast - The federal gov’t mandates that refineries blend a certain amount of renewable fuels into gasoline. Because of this, the Chemical Coast Secondary i... (more)

An eastbound train passes over the Matawan Creek embankment, which was coined the name “Million Dollar Fill” during its construction from 1951 to 1953. This vantage along the North Jersey Coa... (more)

Pine Tree Creek Reflection - Coming from Browns Yard, SA31 is the only freight train to run this section of the North Jersey Coast Line (NJCL). Here SA31 is moving south (railroad west) ... (more)