Downtown Freehold - One of Conrail Shared Assets Operations' more unique pieces of equipment is a switching platform. These units are used in reverse moves on local freights and don't off... (more)

One of two brand new locomotives for the US Naval Weapons Station Earle Railroad rests in Browns Yard. USN 65-00647 has arrived yesterday afternoon after being hung up at Oak Island Yard for wee... (more)

Two Trains and an Airplane - A CSX stack train crawls to a stop as the OI-16 train to Browns Yard, led by NS 1703, passes on the right. At the same time, a United Airlines jet makes a la... (more)

Wrinked Rails - Just off the Amboy Secondary and east of Conrail's Browns Yard a member of the SA3 crew throws a switch to work Old Bridge Chemicals Inc. It's my understanding that rail ... (more)

What are these guys doing? They are closing one of only a few manually hand-cranked swing bridges still in operation in America, the South River Drawbridge. Built in 1910 and formerly part of th... (more)

Daylight Return on the Southern - Yesterday, SA31 ran down the Southern Sec. with a single locomotive (see here)... (more)

Shoving Back to Browns Yard - This train is shoving south on the Gillespie Branch back to the local yard. It is hauling an empty hopper that was picked up from the Mauser Corporation al... (more)

Originally built as New Haven #654 this steel plant switcher has been left sitting here at this spot for eight years.

Lawrence Brook Trestle - A maintenance worker rides on the back of a Harsco tie exchanger as it crosses west over the Lawrence Brook Trestle. This was the second to last day of a multi-... (more)

The fall colors are peaking in Central Jersey as SA2 picks up an empty hopper from Mauser. Mauser always keeps a set of covered hoppers on site. CSX 2814 is moving the entire set to collect the ... (more)

Vornado Spur - While exploring East Hanover I stumbled across several pieces of weathered railroad equipment parked on the Morristown & Erie's Vornado Spur. This included several beaten... (more)

The traffic lights were malfunctioning at the intersection of Applegarth Rd. and S. Middlesex Ave, and a police officer was on the scene to assist the traffic. He parked his vehicle in front of ... (more)

After making several maneuvers CSX 2814 has successfully extracted covered hopper NCIX 1159 from a string of hopper cars situated at the Mauser Corporation. CSX 2814 is now making its final maneu... (more)

The NS 1800 (yellow) DC to AC SD70 conversion occupies the largely vacant yard along the Northeast Corridor in Linden, NJ.

Working the Pine Creek Railroad - This little critter built in 1942 for the US Army now works a small, narrow-gauge, tourist outfit at the New Jersey Museum of Transportation in Allaire S... (more)