Much of the railroad scene has lost its appeal to me with the sameness or removal of signal systems, the prevalence of container boxes in lieu of rolling stock and the bloated merged systems that ... (more)

Back when there were auto manufacturing plants in the Northeast, Linden and Metuchen, NJ generated appreciable traffic - such as symbol LMPI that carried auto racks and hi cube boxcars. The train ... (more)

Conrail looked great in the 1990s and traffic moved right along over the mountain. Here symbol OIPI snarls through MG interlocking on the east slope with one of the daily succession of manifests o... (more)

MG was so sequestered a location that one only heard bird calls punctuating the silence until a distant westbound's locomotives began to fill the valley below Horseshoe with the sound of power. Ev... (more)

Led by Conrail GE B36-7 No. 5057, CR piggyback train TV1 rolls toward Chicago at Chesterton, Indiana, at 7:41 p.m. on June 30, 1990.

A pair of Conrail C40-8Ws and an NS EMD lead an SENS south through Ridgefield Park. NS run-through power was common on this Selkirk, NY to Linwood, NC (via Hagerstown, MD) train.

6102 leads a loaded UCR coal train north through Ridgefield Park, NJ. This train would have been destined to the Central Hudson Power Plant in Roseton, NY.

Five units hustle Conrail ML-480Y east through Fullers, NY on the Selkirk Branch. The head end is at the location where the east and westbound mains separate on the western approach to the flyove... (more)

The hottest train on Conrail's River Line was TVLA. Scheduled to depart North Bergen at 7:30am, it was usually through CP 5 before 8:00am, and was carded to be interchanged directly to the Santa ... (more)

A pair of SD50s lead Conrail SEAL south through Ridgefield Park. The second unit had recently been repainted into the then-current Conrail paint scheme with a white sill stripe. Those box cars o... (more)

This freshly repainted Conrail N20 caboose made its long-awaited debut on ME-2 after being repainted in Metuchen Yard. CR 22137 had been a tagged, rusting eyesore for a decade or more. For years t... (more)

Ex-Jersey Central Line.

Trackwork has diverted a westbound Conrail Truc-Train to the eastbound main near the Eby-Chickies Road crossing. Note the ex-EL SD45 trailing. Today, the signals are gone and the grade crossing ... (more)

A Conrail alumnus has returned home to lead this hot double stack train. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collection.

An ex PC unit, still showing evidence thereof, is switching an Amtrak train. Photo by Dave Petke.