A Gift For Conrail Day on Conrail. On April 1, 1976, the Reading Railroad, which had been founded as the Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road in 1833, became part of the Consolidated Rail Cor... (more)

Railfans along the Lehigh Line celebrated Conrail's 47th birthday in style, as Norfolk Southern assigned the freshly repainted Reading Lines heritage unit to 22X. This was the first revenue run f... (more)

Paint Cometh To Those Who Wait. New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railway's SU-99 crossed the Hackensack River into Hackensack, New Jersey at a little after 5:00 PM on Friday, March 31, 20... (more)

Nothing quite like a big Alco Century... these were the most lovely of brutes, even a former Penn Central one that had been patched for Conrail. Regarding the black dirt, this was the Pit at Meado... (more)

Conrail TV16, a Detroit to North Bergen NJ intermodal train, passes through Haworth NJ on a sunny Saturday morning in autumn.

CSAO ME-2.

A PLM SD40X leads a wild consist of CP, D&H and NYS&W units on Susqhehanna HAN-1X. Included are both of NYS&Ws F45s. The train has passed under I-80 in Ridgefield Park as it nears the end of its... (more)

This was PO87 (The Ordinary). The Ordinary worked Paterson, Suffern, Greycourt, Middletown, and Port Jervis. On this day it came up the Bergen County Line and then went down to Paterson on the Mai... (more)

1802 is seen between switching moves near the Mayhill Street crossing at the east end of PC Yard. The top of NYS&Ws American Crane 0280 can be seen through the trees at left. There are rails sta... (more)

Ride with Pride in New Brunswick: NJ Transit's Pride Unit departs New Brunswick station with a Trenton-bound Northeast Corridor Line train on Saturday, March 18, 2023.

NS 22V (Harrisburg, Pa.-Elizabeth, N.J.).

A Tower Operator's View. The survival of WC Tower in Waldwick, New Jersey to the present day is something of a miracle combined with perseverance. The tower is named the "Harvey Springstead... (more)

Present and Future High-Speed Relics: An eastbound Acela meets a westbound Keystone Service train at the Trenton Transit Center on Thursday, March 16, 2023. Leading the Key... (more)

Winter of Discontent: If you like snow and were in Central Jersey during the winter of 2022-23, then the season was largely one of disappointment for you. The morning of March 7th was one o... (more)

Acela 2121 would be the last train to pass through Edison before service on the Northeast Corridor in this area was suspended due to fire department activity. The shutdown lasted several hours le... (more)