An empty CSX Tropicana orange juice and mixed freight train combo moves west over the Bound Brook on the Lehigh Line.

Just after departing Little Silver Station a Bombardier electric locomotive shoves a train of bilevel coaches to the next and final stop for this electrified train at Long Branch. Train crossi... (more)

An Amtrak train passes a Norfolk Southern (yellow) DC to AC SD70 conversion locomotive that occupies the largely vacant yard along the Northeast Corridor in Linden, NJ. The main purpose of this s... (more)

Train Meet at Allenhurst

Normally in the off-season weekends trains run every two hours between Bay Head and Long Branch, with trains typically meeting somewhere between Point ... (more)

Spring is in the Air

Mondays on the Lehigh tend to be slow, and the weather forecast of partly to mostly sunny skies was a bust. So I took a stroll through a cemetery toting alo... (more)

Brielle Draw - This drawbridge was built in 1911 and rehabilitated in 1978 and 2001. It is a Scherzer style rolling-lift bascule bridge and is joined with an approach structure some 1,2... (more)

Raritan Central Yard - A pair of geeps face into the sun with a long hood forward (LHF) view of RCRY 2244.

Northbound (eastbound) out of Bay Head shoves toward Long Branch. Photo taken from the Allenhurst footbridge just north of the station.

Recently, CSX has been running distributive power at the rear of some trains. Here is a distributive power unit trailing an late day eastbound manifest.

A pan shot of electric power over Parkers Creek.

The MA1 local out of Manville Yard is operating with two locomotives and a longer than usual train. Here they have just extracted the yellow boxcar from the Anacapri siding and the crewman is now... (more)

A Kayakers Paradise? A passenger train shoves over River Draw as it crosses the Raritan River into South Amboy. I have never seen so much boating activity on these waters before, espec... (more)

A loaded CSX oil train K162 rounds a curve on the Lehigh Main Line as it heads for a refinery in Eddystone, Pennsylvania.

A westbound passenger train running from Dunellen to Bound Brook passes before the BOC gases water tower.

The weather in March 2020 has been wonderful. Here is an afternoon inter-modal train rounding a curve in Middlesex, NJ.