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2/1/2025
 
 
 
 
  Viewing the last 200 photos I selected as my favorite Pictures.
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CSX 5268
Title:  CSX 5268
Description:  Affectionately referred to as the 'Juice train', CSX L140 brings its solid consist of Tropicana Orange juice east into the blinding early morning sun; this can not at all be easy for the crews on the Lehigh Line
Photo Date:  10/27/2013  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 5:34:50 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 5268(ES40DC)
Views:  312   Comments: 4
NS 9517
Title:  NS 9517
Description:  NS intermodal train 22V brings its 248 axles (per the Middlesex detector) eastward on the Lehigh Line
Photo Date:  10/27/2013  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 5:23:52 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9517(C40-9W) NS 9315(C40-9W)
Views:  250   Comments: 2
NS 9517
Title:  NS 9517
Description:  With the major northeastern sea ports in Newark, Elizabeth and Staten Island just 45 minutes away, intermodal is huge in this area; NS 22V heads east with another load of containers in the non-stop parade
Photo Date:  10/27/2013  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 5:19:06 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9517(C40-9W) NS 9315(C40-9W)
Views:  226   Comments: 2
CSX 622
Title:  CSX 622
Description:  Hard to find a matched set of fairly clean YN2 schemes on CSX these days; train Q300 heads east for trash reload
Photo Date:  10/27/2013  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 5:13:56 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
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Locomotives:  CSX 622(AC60CW) CSX 5004(AC60CW)
Views:  207   Comments: 3
CSX 622
Title:  CSX 622
Description:  Keeping it 'Green', empty CSX trash train Q702 returns east for yet another reload
Photo Date:  10/27/2013  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 5:10:11 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 622(AC60CW) CSX 5004(AC60CW)
Views:  210   Comments: 2
CSX 8418
Title:  CSX 8418
Description:  Built as Chesapeake & Ohio 7467 in August of 1966 (!), CSX 8418 leads a short version of todays Q300
Photo Date:  10/27/2013  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 5:02:02 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 8418(SD40-2) CSX 811(ES44AC-H)
Views:  249   Comments: 5
CSX 8418
Title:  CSX 8418
Description:  On a brilliant Autumn morning, a seasoned veteran leads more modern power on CSX train Q300, looking and sounding as good as ever
Photo Date:  10/27/2013  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 4:58:03 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 8418(SD40-2) CSX 811(ES44AC-H)
Views:  241   Comments: 3
NS 2675
Title:  NS 2675
Description:  Plenty of horsepower for todays NS train 20E, eastbound on the Conrail Shared Assets portion of the Lehigh Line
Photo Date:  10/27/2013  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 4:55:21 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 2675(SD70M-2) NS 9208(C40-9W) NS 9908(C40-9W)
Views:  269   Comments: 2
NS 2675
Title:  NS 2675
Description:  A handsome leader brings NS train 20E eastbound through Piscataway
Photo Date:  10/27/2013  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 4:52:23 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 2675(SD70M-2) NS 9208(C40-9W) NS 9908(C40-9W)
Views:  235   Comments: 3
NS 9663
Title:  NS 9663
Description:  A closer look at NS 212, approaching Prospect St. in the morning sun
Photo Date:  10/27/2013  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 4:49:15 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9663(C40-9W) NS 6612(SD60) NS 9462(C40-9W)
Views:  207   Comments: 3
NS 9663
Title:  NS 9663
Description:  NS Atlanta, Ga - Secaucus, NJ intermodal train 212 storms up the small rise at MP29.2
Photo Date:  10/27/2013  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 4:46:43 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9663(C40-9W) NS 6612(SD60) NS 9462(C40-9W)
Views:  225   Comments: 3
NS 9231
Title:  NS 9231
Description:  A brief edition of NS 24Z, eastbound on the Lehigh Line
Photo Date:  10/27/2013  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 4:44:50 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9231(C40-9W) NS 6806(SD60M)
Views:  219   Comments: 3
CSX 61
Title:  CSX 61
Description:  Just after sunrise, CSX unit potash train K533 heads east on the Lehigh Line
Photo Date:  10/27/2013  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 4:42:20 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 61(AC44CW) CSX 7859(C40-8W)
Views:  203   Comments: 3
BNSF 5157
Title:  BNSF 5157
Description:  Tough midday light, but who can resist western visitors, just a mile or so fwom the Atlantic Ocean? Ethanol train power prepares to spin on the wye at CP-RON for the final shove for offloading
Photo Date:  10/24/2013  Upload Date: 10/24/2013 8:27:48 PM
Location:  Port Reading, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 5157(C44-9W) BNSF 6748(ES44C4)
Views:  332   Comments: 5
CSX 8886
Title:  CSX 8886
Description:  The old girls just keep on ticking, and the beauty of Shared Assets railroading; former EL '45-2s team up on CSAO transfer OI-16, negotiating the 'Hess' crossovers for todays Pt. Reading Yard delivery
Photo Date:  10/24/2013  Upload Date: 10/24/2013 8:20:33 PM
Location:  Port Reading, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 8886(SD45-2) NS 1700(SD45-2)
Views:  795   Comments: 10
CSX 8886
Title:  CSX 8886
Description:  Conrail Shared Assets daily transfer job OI-16 prepares to make the cut, with 26 cars to be set-out at Port Reading Yard, directly behind the camera
Photo Date:  10/24/2013  Upload Date: 10/24/2013 8:15:58 PM
Location:  Port Reading, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 8886(SD45-2) NS 1700(SD45-2)
Views:  450   Comments: 5
NS 5283
Title:  NS 5283
Description:  Nothing out of the ordinary today, after last weeks large train; ex-CR, nee PC 8081 brings 5 loads down the line on another cloudy Thursday in the Garden State
Photo Date:  10/10/2013  Upload Date: 10/10/2013 5:16:54 PM
Location:  Shrewsbury, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5283(GP38-2)
Views:  475   Comments: 5
CSX 4441
Title:  CSX 4441
Description:  Normally a 'down & back' train, Conrail local SA-31 sits on the Southern Secondary main, waiting for a new crew, to spot the remaining loads from yesterdays unusually large 17 car train
Photo Date:  10/4/2013  Upload Date: 10/4/2013 5:45:00 PM
Location:  Lakewood, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 4441(GP38-2S) NS 5269(GP38-2)
Views:  830   Comments: 4
CP 6240
Title:  CP 6240
Description:  With the 'spin cycle' complete, the K634 (unit ethanol train) power heads back north on the east leg of the Pt Reading wye (aka the yard track) to retrieve their train, and begin the shove move to the storage facility
Photo Date:  10/3/2013  Upload Date: 10/3/2013 8:34:33 PM
Location:  Port Reading, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6240(SD60) CP 6036(SD40-2)
Views:  246   Comments: 3
CP 6240
Title:  CP 6240
Description:  Conrail Shared Assets Operations crew PR-8 is now in charge of CSX train K634, as they prepare to spin the power on the wye just outside Port Reading Yard
Photo Date:  10/3/2013  Upload Date: 10/3/2013 8:31:26 PM
Location:  Port Reading, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 6240(SD60) CP 6036(SD40-2)
Views:  510   Comments: 9
NS 8026
Title:  NS 8026
Description:  The PC Heritage unit, in all her splendor, helps pull ethanol empties from the storage facility in Sewaren, NJ
Photo Date:  10/3/2013  Upload Date: 10/3/2013 8:27:04 PM
Location:  Port Reading, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8026(ES44AC) NS 1073(SD70ACe)
Views:  660   Comments: 4
NS 8026
Title:  NS 8026
Description:  In a truly classless gesture, the engineer of Conrail Shared Assets crew PR-19 lets us know that 'we're number 1' with him; ethanol empties will become NS train 65K later today
Photo Date:  10/3/2013  Upload Date: 10/3/2013 8:21:53 PM
Location:  Port Reading, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8026(ES44AC) NS 1073(SD70ACe)
Views:  485   Comments: 5
NS 5269
Title:  NS 5269
Description:  A monster train for this line; Shared Assets local SA-31 with 2 locomotives and 17 cars head southward to Lakewood on the Southern Secondary
Photo Date:  10/3/2013  Upload Date: 10/3/2013 5:39:27 PM
Location:  Shrewsbury, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5269(GP38-2) CSX 4441(GP38-2S)
Views:  758   Comments: 10
NS 5283
Title:  NS 5283
Description:  40 years young; built for the Penn Central in February of 1973, NS 5283 is still working hard, on the regular Thursday afternoon run of Conrail Shared Assets local SA-31
Photo Date:  9/26/2013  Upload Date: 9/26/2013 9:43:42 PM
Location:  Shrewsbury, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5283(GP38-2)
Views:  405   Comments: 2
NS 9360
Title:  NS 9360
Description:  Eastbound NS intermodal train 20K leaves the Reading Line at MP35, and enters the Lehigh LinX at CP BURN
Photo Date:  9/14/2013  Upload Date: 9/15/2013 5:32:21 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9360(C40-9W) NS 9343(C40-9W) NS 8350(C40-8W)
Views:  250   Comments: 3
NS 8341
Title:  NS 8341
Description:  NS manifest train 36Q crosses the Lehigh River, approaching CP ALLEN and its final destination of Allentown Yard
Photo Date:  9/14/2013  Upload Date: 9/15/2013 5:27:38 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  Chris=S
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NS 8341(C40-8W) NS 7536(ES40DC) NS 9036(C40-9W)
Views:  263   Comments: 7
NS 6757
Title:  NS 6757
Description:  With CP ALLEN just behind them, and CP BURN just ahead, NS train 38G begins its daily journey to New Jersey, passi`g over the 19th century Lehigh Canal
Photo Date:  9/14/2013  Upload Date: 9/15/2013 5:23:53 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 6757(SD60I) NS 2540(SD70) NS 6630(SD60)
Views:  240   Comments: 4
NS 6757
Title:  NS 6757
Description:  "I liked her better in Blue" Ex-Conrail SD60I leads a very nice all-EMD lashup on todays edition of Allentown, Pa to Camden, NJ train 38G.
Photo Date:  9/14/2013  Upload Date: 9/15/2013 5:19:08 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 6757(SD60I) NS 2540(SD70) NS 6630(SD60)
Views:  230   Comments: 4
CPR 218317
Title:  CPR 218317
Description:  And CP has such a classy scheme to its modern cars; not to beat a dead horse+ but, sorry folks, this is not art. Grab some canvas, and present yourself at the local art gallery, whydontcha....
Photo Date:  9/14/2013  Upload Date: 9/15/2013 5:14:36 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  Chris S
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives: 
Views:  174   Comments: 0
NS 9912
Title:  NS 9912
Description:  The head end of a monster train; NS general manifest 19G leaves Allentown Yard with 153 cars and 624 total axles, enough to torment the most competent dragging equipment detectors that NS has to offer...
Photo Date:  9/14/2013  Upload Date: 9/15/2013 5:05:34 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9912(C40-9W) NS 8021(ES44AC)
Views:  285   Comments: 4
NS 2764
Title:  NS 2764
Description:  NS intermodal rain 21M storms around the bend at the western most point of the NS Lehigh Line at MP93. CP BURN is just ahead, and the beginning of the NS Reading Line at MP35
Photo Date:  9/14/2013  Upload Date: 9/15/2013 4:59:49 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 2764(SD70M-2)
Views:  209   Comments: 6
NS 9313
Title:  NS 9313
Description:  Two Dash9s are easily in charge of the empty autoracks of NS train 11J, along the banks of the mighty Lehigh River
Photo Date:  9/14/2013  Upload Date: 9/15/2013 4:51:17 PM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9313(C40-9W) NS 9529(C40-9W)
Views:  170   Comments: 4
NS 5664
Title:  NS 5664
Description:  A 35 year old ex-CR SD40-2 and a 44 year old (!) ex-PC GP38 (later upgraded to Dash2 specs) easily handle the 4 loaded centerbeam cars on todays edition of Allentown Yard based local H76
Photo Date:  9/14/2013  Upload Date: 9/15/2013 4:41:56 PM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5664(GP38-2) NS 3393(SD40-2)
Views:  224   Comments: 6
NS 5283
Title:  NS 5283
Description:  Conrail weekly local SA-31 passes over what once was the east switch of a passing siding; in November of 1953, CNJ train SJ-2 (on what was their Southern Division Main at the time) had a 21 car derailment at this exact spot, with a few boxcars climbing the embankment to the left.
Photo Date:  8/15/2013  Upload Date: 8/15/2013 6:22:46 PM
Location:  Eatontown, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5283(GP38-2)
Views:  503   Comments: 6
NS 5283
Title:  NS 5283
Description:  A sunny Thursday in NJ? Hell must surely be freezing over right about now; Conrail Shared Assets local SA-31 runs just a bit late on a beautiful summer day at the Jersey shore.
Photo Date:  8/15/2013  Upload Date: 8/15/2013 6:17:36 PM
Location:  Eatontown, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5283(GP38-2)
Views:  524   Comments: 8
NS 5283
Title:  NS 5283
Description:  How hard was it raining today? Hard enough to keep me in the car for Conrail SA-31; don't know how the sun found a hole in the clouds...it was just one of those strange dog-day afternoons
Photo Date:  8/8/2013  Upload Date: 8/8/2013 7:42:00 PM
Location:  Shrewsbury, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5283(GP38-2)
Views:  455   Comments: 8
NS 8812
Title:  NS 8812
Description:  With a wave from the conductor, two GE standard cab Dash9s bring westbound NS train 33K along on the Conrail Shared Assets portion of the Lehigh Line
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/5/2013 10:02:58 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8812(C40-9) NS 8764(C40-9)
Views:  256   Comments: 8
NS 7660
Title:  NS 7660
Description:  A pair of GEs easily handle an extra section of NS 290; train I90 speeds east through central NJ on a dreary afternoon
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/5/2013 9:59:02 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 7660(ES40DC) NS 9409(C40-9W)
Views:  251   Comments: 3
NS 7660
Title:  NS 7660
Description:  Emerging from the 'rain forest' in wet & dreary NJ this morning, NS 'extra section' train I90 transports even more new vehicles to the metro NY/NJ area
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/5/2013 9:55:04 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 7660(ES40DC) NS 9409(C40-9W)
Views:  249   Comments: 3
NS 8083
Title:  NS 8083
Description:  Sometimes the weather cooperates, and sometimes it does not; a light rain greets NS extra section train I0W in central NJ
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/5/2013 9:51:36 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8083(ES44AC) NS 9857(C40-9W)
Views:  307   Comments: 4
NS 8083
Title:  NS 8083
Description:  A somewhat rare extra section of NS train 20W...NS I0W speeds eastward on the Lehigh LineD
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/5/2013 8:58:34 PM
Location:  Piscataway, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8083(ES44AC) NS 9857(C40-9W)
Views:  296   Comments: 5
NS 5620
Title:  NS 5620
Description:  With the 2 coiled steel cars spotted, the conductor walks to the head end as the overhead gantry crane lifts off the cover (seen in left bay door) from CSX 493270 for offloading
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/5/2013 8:53:46 PM
Location:  South Plainfield, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5620(GP38-2)
Views:  229   Comments: 5
NS 5620
Title:  NS 5620
Description:  Customer service at its best; Conrail local MA-80 shoves 2 coiled steel cars into the plant. The crew will wait as the two cars are offloaded (about 15 minutes), then pull ahead for the next two to be spotted
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/5/2013 8:48:41 PM
Location:  South Plainfield, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5620(GP38-2)
Views:  176   Comments: 100663302
NS 5620
Title:  NS 5620
Description:  Manville Yard based Conrail Shared Assets local MA-80 shoves loaded coil steel cars into the Marino Ware plant in miserable weather
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/5/2013 8:44:41 PM
Location:  Waterloo, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5620(GP38-2) NS 5664(GP38-2)
Views:  217   Comments: 2
NS 2632
Title:  NS 2632
Description:  The Conrail Shared Assets portion of the Lehigh Line is truly bi-directional, as NS train 22V heads east on main 1. Usual movements are west on 1, and east on 2...
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/4/2013 9:51:32 PM
Location:  South Plainfield, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 2632(SD70M) NS 9426(C40-9W)
Views:  218   Comments: 3
Pullman Dover Cliffs
Title:  Pullman Dover Cliffs
Description:  The magnificent Dover Cliffs, built by Pullman in 1924, spent many years in service on the NY Central. Currently privately owned, and on static display in Edison, NJ, not far from the CSAO Port Reading Secondary
Photo Date:  8/9/2013  Upload Date: 8/4/2013 9:44:51 PM
Location:  Edison, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  1707   Comments: 4
CP 8915
Title:  CP 8915
Description:  With the train reassembled, Conrail Shared Assets Operations crew JR-2 shove away from the camera for off loading
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/4/2013 9:04:19 PM
Location:  Port Reading, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8915(ES44AC) CP 8843(ES44AC)
Views:  381   Comments: 4
CP 8915
Title:  CP 8915
Description:  Conrail Shared Assets crews are the best; within minutes, CR crew JR-4 has the power spun on the wye, and heads northwards (towards the camera) to hand off to the JR-2 crew to spot the loads just a mile south of here
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/4/2013 8:56:50 PM
Location:  Port Reading, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8915(ES44AC) CP 8843(ES44AC)
Views:  276   Comments: 3
CP 8915
Title:  CP 8915
Description:  Yesterdays CSX train K634 is under control of Conrail Shared Assets crew JR-4, as they cut away from their train to turn the power on the wye at Port Reading, to facilitate the shove to the offloading facility
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/4/2013 8:51:08 PM
Location:  Port Reading, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8915(ES44AC) CP 8843(ES44AC)
Views:  358   Comments: 2
NS 9668
Title:  NS 9668
Description:  More clouds than sun in Jersey this summer it seems; Conrail Shared Assets crew JR-2 pull ethanol empties northward on the 'Coast, heading for the east siding in Carteret where an NS crew will board & head west as NS 65K later today
Photo Date:  8/3/2013  Upload Date: 8/4/2013 8:43:53 PM
Location:  Port Reading, NJ
Author:  Chris S
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9668(C40-9W) UP 6781(AC44CW) UP 6551(AC44CW)
Views:  356   Comments: 2


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