SA31 crosses the calm Manalapan Brook for a fifth and final time on its way to Freehold. Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: EMD GP40-2
Location: Monroe, New Jersey, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 4423
Train ID: CR WPSA31
Photo Date: August 17, 2009

This was the only time I caught a light engine in Conrail paint past the ex-PRR station in Freehold. The only customer on the east side of town required a shoving platform to be used when being se... (more)

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.

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.

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) over Stump Creek and across the Cheese... (more)

SA31 pauses in town while getting permission to enter the Amboy Secondary to head back to Browns Yard. Three to four days a week Jamesburg is a busy junction in the afternoon with two trains using... (more)

Fishermen pay little or no attention to the Conrail local rolling past them while two ducks take refuge from the photographer in the water. The sun is only a few minutes from setting but still bat... (more)

SA31 hauls south (railroad west) across the Cheesequake Marsh, and over the Stump Creek bridge, on its weekly trip to Lakewood, NJ.

With short hood forward, CSX 4412 reflects off the waters of Deep Run as it runs light to the Hightstown Industrial Track. A long train of empty cars, extending west out of Browns Yard, awaits re... (more)

The North Jersey Coast Line (NJCL) has a trove of rail-fanning spots that have not been exploited. Here, the only freight train to traverse this section of the NJCL crosses south over the mile-w... (more)

Just after departing Browns Yard, CSX 4429 passes alongside Deep Run on its way to the Freehold Industrial Track.

South Amboy was once a bustling railroad town which included a busy station, large freight yard, engine terminal, shortline, and junction of two electrified main lines. Now all that remains is the... (more)

A perfect thin layer of clouds made it possible to try a new angle in Jamesburg.

SA31 cruises over fresh ballast on the Freehold Industrial Track which was dumped after Hurricane Irene caused Lake Manalapan to rise and weaken the causeway and bridge approach.