The stars finally align and CSXT 4429, symbol SA31, returns through downtown Freehold light after dropping cars at Honeywell on the east side of town. Without a run-around by Honeywell, the crew u... (more)

NS 5277 drops a loaded centerbeam at Builders General one of only four customers along Conrail Shares Assets' Freehold Industrial Track downgraded from a Secondary in early 2009.

SA31 crosses Main St. in the village of Tennent, part of Manalapan Township, on a beautiful spring afternoon. The stonework in the foreground is part of a display for a local business, Reed & Perr... (more)

You gotta love it when the crew stops their train next to the pretty, blooming tree.

A sign of the times. 15-18 Adam Ct., part of the Sunrise Acres at Monroe housing development, sits unfinished alongside Conrail's Freehold Industrial Track.

Three geese are unimpressed by the passage of the Conrail local as they continue to clean themselves and look for food along the shores of Lake Manalapan, just south of Jamesburg.

Spring has sprung. Framed by blooming trees and the PRR-era catenary poles, CSX GP40-2 4412 hurries through Helmetta with three cars bound for local industries in Freehold. The abandoned He... (more)

Spring has finally reached the northeast with trees beginning to pop left and right. A tree blooms in the middle of a mini-mall parking lot as SA31 heads railroad west on the Amboy Secondary bound... (more)

End of the line. NS 5284 shoves two cars past the ex-PRR freight house in Cranbury Station one of the last remaining structures along the ex-PRR lines in central NJ. Cranbury Station is the... (more)

SA31 ducks under Route 9 as it nears the end of its 10mph journey to Freehold for the first time since Sunday night/Monday morning's storm dumped half a foot of snow on the area. The recently down... (more)

Rush hour traffic comes to a halt in downtown Freehold as SA31 crosses through the middle of the Throckmorton St (Rte. 522) and Main St. (Rte. 537) intersection. The last customer on the active se... (more)

SA31, a light CSXT 4412, heads back north after working the 'Hightstown Branch'.

Although the southern section of the Amboy Secondary can see as many as four movements in a day, a "morning" northbound is the rarest catch but sometimes the stars align and the railroad gods come... (more)

SA31 crosses the first of four bridges over the Manalapan Brook on the recently downgraded Freehold Industrial Track. The line was first built in 1853 as the Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad (aka t... (more)

A rare covered hopper-only SA31 behind CSXT 4405 crosses the wooden bridge over a frozen and snow covered Lake Manalapan.