A couple of women gather their belongings as NJT 4218 slows for the stop at the Manasquan station. The original station was destroyed by fire in 1996. Note the lack of platforms.

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

Black River & Western workhorse GP9 leads a special train for railroad employees and supporters past a small well on trackage that hasn't seen a passenger train in over a half a decade.

A single blooming tree in the distance provides a bit of green as NJT 4201 glides northward over the Deal Lake causeway between Asbury Park and Interlaken early on a warm, spring Sunday.

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)

Splitting the blades. CSXT Z491, also known as Indiana Rail Road's HWLV (Hiawatha Yard to Louisville), splits one of over a dozen sets of active semaphores on CSX's former Monon Hoosier Sub... (more)

Spring has sprung. Two lone daffodils have appeared trackside in downtown Farmingdale, as former Conrail GP38-2 5277 eases over the switch to the Freehold Secondary and continues southward ... (more)

Ten years after. Rush hour traffic backs up at the Asbury Road crossing as NS 5277 and three loads slowly roll sotuhward down the former Central of New Jersey, now Conrail Shared Assets' So... (more)

Blue sky above, blue water below, blue on the bridge. NS 5277, which still wears its Conrail Quality paint scheme, eases across the Navesink River into downtown Red Bank with two loaded cen... (more)

Ten years after. Even though Conrail disappeared ten years ago, its flag still flies on an ever-dwindling number of NS and CSX units, including this battle-scarred GP40-2 leading a short lo... (more)

No farming today. All is quiet on this central Michigan farm as Pere Marquette 2-8-4 1225 blasts southward with a time freight in the distance.

Over two weeks since it last ran, the local freight that works the former CNJ between Red Bank and Lakehurst slowly moves onto NJT's bridge over the Navesink River.

A former Conrail GP40-2, running long hood forward, hauls a splat (shoving platform) and tank car north past the Garden State Technology Center, housed in the former Sunshine Biscuit... (more)

Its work done for now, NJT 4219 and two ballast cars rest in Neptune Yard while sister GP40PH-2B 4218 slides past with a northbound shuttle to Long Branch.