The multi-year concrete tie replacement project continues on the Northeast Corridor, with work now progressing on track 1 in the vicinity of ELMORA Interlocking in Elizabeth. KN702 brings ballast... (more)

Conrail OI-32 returns to Oak Island Yard light after delivering cars to Metuchen Yard. The train (two locomotives and a "shove platform") has entered track 1 of the Northeast Corridor ... (more)

As of this date, only three of Amtrak's new "Cities Sprinter" ACS-64 locomotives are in revenue service, but they continue to operate regularly between Washington, DC and New York City. Northeast... (more)

A New York to Trenton train slows to a stop at the Metuchen station.

A rather dirty AEM-7 powers a Northeast Direct train through the interlocking in Metuchen.

Amtrak's New Orleans bound Crescent passes the NJ Transit station in Metuchen.

A Northeast Direct train sails through the interlocking at the Metuchen station.

The calm before the storm...A Raritan Central crew delivers a cut of cars to Conrail's Metuchen Yard on the eve of Hurricane Sandy. This is the first time I have seen a 3-unit consist on a... (more)

Northbound Acela passing through Metuchen station on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.

Southbound at Metuchen

The midday passenger train lull presents opportunity for the DS to run some freight on the corridor. 4450 leads the march still in her Pennsy dress. (Ed. Note: this is the only view of #4450 in ... (more)

Penn Central 4903, leads an intercity passenger train. 18 months earlier, she pulled the RFK funeral train in her new black dress. Later, #4903 retired and moved to Texas where she is preserved ... (more)

Penn Central is less than a year old, and still features plenty of unpainted equipment left over from the fallen flags that came to be PC, like on this passenger train. (NH would be added to the ... (more)

An eastbound Keystone train passes through Metuchen Station en route to New York.

An SD50 still in Conrail blue leads two Union Pacific widecabs and a string of tanker cars on the Port Reading Secondary through Metuchen. The Route NJ-27 overpass as well as the Grove Avenue ove... (more)