The New Year's Day edition of OI-16 is running under the wires of NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line as it approaches Perth Amboy station. This Conrail local uses a roughly 3 mile segment of th... (more)

The first OI-16 of 2017 rolls south through Sewaren with the Erie Lackawanna heritage unit leading. The crew had just completed their work at Port Reading Yard and is making good time enroute to ... (more)

The Last OI-16 of 2016
The Erie Lackawanna heritage unit leads a three-unit OI-16 south into Port Reading on the last day of 2016. The train is passing an ethanol train which is in th... (more)

A BNSF warbonnet C44-9W leads CSX K142 past Newark's Weequahic Park. The loaded crude oil train is westbound on Conrail's Lehigh Line headed for Philadelphia, PA.

A standard cab Dash 8 leads an empty crude oil train east on the Lehigh Line after a heavy snowfall.

Santa Claus arrives in style, waving to the gathering crowd from the front walkway of CSXT 4405 as the Browns Yard Santa train slowly rolls into position on the platform adjacent to Freehold stati... (more)

I Brake For Santa
Motorists on Main Street in Spotswood are only briefly interrupted by the passage of Conrail's Browns Yard Santa Train.

CSX Q273 has paused in Ridgefield Park while making a pickup at Bellmans Yard as Q010 rolls south toward CP5.

A midday weekend train bound for Port Jervis passes through the S-curve at Garfield with a solid Metro-North "West of Hudson" consist.

Train time at Wesmont
NJT train 1866 arrives at the (relatively) new Wesmont station. Remnants of the old Curtiss-Wright Wood-Ridge facility loom in the background. This station was ... (more)

A veteran with 48 years of service to New Jersey commuters shoves train 854 out of Maplewood on a brisk late fall afternoon. This train left Hackettstown at 11:55am and will arrive in Hoboken at ... (more)

SU-99 waits for a crew at the west end of the MC Yard during the blue hour. It was good to see a tunnel motor leading in place of a more typical SD60.

Conrail ME-47 runs nightly as a transfer from Metuchen Yard to Oak Island Yard and return. The train will occasionally run in daylight as an extra, especially on weekends or around holidays. In ... (more)

Conrail's Browns Yard Santa Train is seen passing the historic Camden & Amboy marker in Spotswood. The Camden & Amboy Railroad was the first to operate in the state of New Jersey, reaching Spotsw... (more)

The Browns Yard Santa Train is headed for Freehold with a special guest aboard caboose 21241. This train is jointly sponsored by Conrail and the Freehold PBA, and it will draw quite an impressive... (more)