Here's another overlooked negative. Pennsylvania K4sa 612 sits in Asbury Park on the Farewell to Steam trip. There was a 90 minute lunch stop here and the locomotive and train had been moved south... (more)

The sounds of the train horn fill the air as a southbound train makes a number of grade crossings in her approach to Asbury Park Station. Here the train is crossing 4th Avenue as she parrallels M... (more)

An early morning shuttle from Long Branch to Bay Head passes through Asbury Park on a stretch of track known as the Deal Lake causeway.

Deal Lake Causeway - On a beautiful spring morning, while waiting for fried chicken to be ready at Kennedy Fried Chicken, I caught the 10:34 am departure out of Asbury Park station shovin... (more)

Dual Mode over Deal - A weekend local from Long Branch to Bay Head is running about 10 minutes late as it enters onto the Deal Lake causeway.

Deal Lake -

Powering the Long Branch to Bay Head shuttle, ALP-45DP no. 4506 has no problem holding to schedule as it cruises over Deal Lake.

Dual Mode locomotives like this one have been in the NJ Transit fleet for years. but their presence on the NJCL has only recently increased This weekend train is running direct from NYC Penn Sta... (more)

Typical power for this non-electrified section of the NJCL (Long Branch to Bay Head) has been GP40PHs and PL42ACs. This, however, is changing with the new 2014 weekend “Shore Express” trains ... (more)

It's late April, the sun is getting higher in the sky, and K4s #3858 has a commuter train in tow, making a mid-day outbound stop at Asbury Park.

NJT 4217 leads a northbound shuttle over Deal Lake, the border between Asbury Park and Loch Arbour.

Handling newspapers, packages and passengers at a noonday stop at Asbury Park

A BP-20 Baldwin shark nose passenger unit in Pennsy's classification leaves Asbury Park with a three car train for Bay Head. The steam special behind 612 has pulled into a siding south of the stat... (more)

The Farewell to Steam trip with 612 has paused at Asbury Park for a lunch stop for the many on board. A friend and I climbed the cantilever signal for this picture, a practice that is strictly for... (more)

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.