Just a guess, but it smells of the ex-NYC Canada Division, the highood GP's and the flat terrain of the area. Hope this helps and excellent photo also.
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It looks like CP-Potter in Edison, NJ.
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It's "Potter" in Edison, NJ, but not "CP Potter" at the time. At the time, this was a set of hand throw crossovers on the Conrail ex-Lehigh Valley main line. Not sure if it was CTC or Double Track ABS at the time. Later, and ironically just when Conrail was moving its high priority MAIL, TV, ML and other symbol freights off the Amtrak owned Northeast Corridor (ex-PRR) mainline and on to the combined ex-RDG and ex-LV routes between Harrisburg, PA (and Philadelphia, PA) and the northern NJ terminals, Conrail ripped up Main 1 between this switch, which then became the remotely controlled "CP Potter" and Port Reading Jct. in Manville, NJ where the ex-LV to Allentown and the ex-RDG to Philadelphia split.
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Forgot to mention they did keep one siding in place between Bound Brook and Port Reading Junction, so the bottleneck they created was about 10 miles (CP Bound Brook was at MP 33.1, "Potter" as configured when they ripped up Main 1 from here was MP 23.2).
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