A former Union Pacific locomotive rebuilt by Norfolk Southern for Norfolk Southern leads NS 65K west down the Port Reading Secondary from Sewaren/Port Reading. The leader was rebuilt from an ex-UP... (more)
The now-abolished NS 33K heads west on Conrail's Lehigh Line with NS 8978 acting as solo power. The number boards on the locomotive certainly have seen better days. NS 8978 was rebuilt to become N... (more)
Built 50 years ago (in 1968) for the CNJ at the time of this photo, NJT 4103 still chugs on into the 2020s. Since the mid 2010s, it no longer used in passenger service. Due to a cab car shortage, ... (more)
Middlesex offers a great eye-level vantage of trains on the Lehigh Line. A new 2019-built NS locomotive leads a trio of NS horses running elephant style with an eastbound intermodal train.
Two double-track lines run next to each other through Middlesex affording opportunities for a passenger and freight train meet. Here it happened but not in the way I had envisioned. A passenger... (more)
The tired looking ex-CNJ NJT 4104 (ex-CNJ 3682) leads an eastbound from Raritan to Newark Penn Station. With the Raritan Valley Line being ex-CNJ trackage, this engine is on home rails serving as ... (more)
A loaded CSX oil train K162 rounds a curve on the Lehigh Main Line as it heads for a refinery in Eddystone, Pennsylvania.
A westbound passenger train running from Dunellen to Bound Brook passes before the BOC gases water tower.
The weather in March 2020 has been wonderful. Here is an afternoon inter-modal train rounding a curve in Middlesex, NJ.
A Morning Manifest Moves on the Main in Middlesex.
This pictures appears to be from the same day as my previous post. This is a westbound, probably JB-3 or JSA-1. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo
A morning mixed freighter rumbles east on the mainline past a finishing products manufacturing company. The NJ Transit Raritan Valley Line is visible off to the right.
Norfolk Southern mixed freight train comes rolling around a curve
A morning CSX train moving east on the Mainline