Rare EL MU combine trailer makes an appearance on the USA's bicentennial.
If ever there was a great spot for train watching it was South Amboy and its engine change. The NJDOT GG1 that brought train #3359 from New York City moves out of the way as a neat lashup of an NJ... (more)
A Conrail passenger train runs south of South Amboy along side the Raritan Bay, on its way to Bay Head. This image was shot from the Route 35 through truss overpass. The two GP40Ps are pulling a s... (more)
I think what is most amazing to me about this shot of a ragged 10-year-old CNJ/NJDOT GP40P is that this locomotive is still running today, more than 32 years after I took this shot and 42 years si... (more)
Nothing on this train tells you that it is a Conrail run subsidized by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Crossing the Garden State Parkway, the train is made up of two Penn Central E8s,... (more)
This former Lackawanna MU car had been soldiering on for over 60 years when I took this photo. Her days were numbered (as well as the GG1s) because NJT was changing the overhead to a newer system.... (more)
Soft early morning light bathes South Amboy New Jersey in September 1983. GG-1 4884, after delivering it's train from New York and letting diesels take it on down the "North Jersey Coast Line," is... (more)
A lone passenger walks down the rainy platform as an eastbound eases away toward NYC
GG1 4884 with a couple of old cars, matching to this dinosaur engine.
The Conrail daylight shops drill was one of the best jobs on the railroad, running passnger equipment and engines from the yard and facilities in Raritan to Elizabethport where they could receive ... (more)
Sometimes when you are trackside you see something that can't be... like this NJDOT E8 on the old CNJ Main. Conrail did not use E8s on this line, and even though they were maintained at Elizabeth... (more)
NJT E8 is former Southern Railway 6913w.
Motoring into a hot sunset. K-64 scan.