| Posted by xBNSFer on March 17, 2015 | |
Way down to the left along that spur track there's an old scale buried in the weeds that I suspect they used to use to weigh the anthracite coal loads that were the signature cargo for the LV. (If you were to poke around down there you would probably come across the concrete pit for it.) I took many a photo along this straightaway in Conrail days, by which time the running track where the LV road trains used to park to do their South Plainfield work was no longer connected to the main on its west (or east, for that matter) end, and it was gradually ripped up west of the switch to the main line as the ties rotted out from beneath the rails. By that time it was used strictly for headroom for switch crews working what remained (not much) of the South Plainfield yard. The second main (track 1, to the right of the train) was ripped up by Conrail just before I started to frequent the area to photograph trains (late 1980s). Happily, the second main was restored in 2007, and the old Valley main (at least this part) is back to being two main tracks. LV ripped up the second main from Port Reading Jct. to Easton, PA before Conrail, so NS still has work to do!
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