Former New Haven, now working on the Pennsy side; with only a single pantagraph, instead of two

Looks like pretty cheap paint used for the lettering, considering that Conrail is only a few months old!

Early Conrail repaint

Here's a strange move. This is actually a Morristown & Erie train, powered by borrowed NS GP40-2 #3010. This train is being picked up from NJT and brought to the M&E shops in Morristown. The fi... (more)

The east side of the Erie Railroad's Newark Branch lies in ruins since having seen its last train in 1977. Heading west, this branch spurred off the Boonton Line near Arlington and continued acro... (more)

Leaving Kearny, this train of empties enters onto Hack Drawbridge over the Hackensack River before entering into Jersey City. Note the old Pennsylvania Railroad catenary towers over the tracks. ... (more)

Changes in evidence

Every city has its ruins...

Rome has the Coliseum, Cairo has the Pyramids, and Newark, NJ has NX Drawbridge over the Passaic River. Once a key point on the Erie Railroad's New... (more)

A "brake assist" unit is reflected in the swamplands of the New Jersey Meadowlands as it trails a dirt train headed towards unloading at Jersey City, NJ. The dirt trains brought back big-time frei... (more)

Running long hood forward in a former Conrail GP38-2 to be delivered to the New York, Susquehanna, & Western Railway about to overtake a CSX stack train crossing the Hack drawbridge.

PRR 8527 & sister 8528 had only been on the property for a few months when this photo was taken at Meadows. PRR Class ES24.

A GG-1 gets sand at the Meadows pit.

Saturday at Meadows Engine Terminal in May of '53.

The railfan photogs reposition themselves for another shot (no pun intended with the liquor billboard on the right). PRR Class H10.