NS 20E Reroute: Because of work at CP Townley on the Conrail Lehigh Line due to a derailment 4 months earlier, freight trains on this day were taking the Port Reading Secondary as an altern... (more)

Trains meet on the Main Line. A morning eastbound train rounds a curve past the tail end of a westbound train. Photo taken just off Park Ave.

OIEN (Oak Island-Enola).

CSX single level intermodal train rolling though South Plainfield with an SD60I leading AC44CW 411 as the train makes its way to Kearney.

NS 65K barrels westbound on Conrail's Port Reading Secondary through industrial South Plainfield after departing its origination point of Port Reading. Behind the leader is UP 7092 (GE AC44CW).

Due to ease of access, this was no doubt the most photographed railroad subject in New Jersey over the course of a gloomy April weekend. NS 1700 spent the weekend parked at this location just east... (more)

Rebuilt from NS 8867.

A very late CSX Q14012 Tropicana Juice Train trudges through South Plainfield on the Shared Assets Lehigh Line. The broken ditchlight and bent handrails provide a clue as to why they were late.

OIPI (Oak Island-Pittsburgh)

After Effects: Due to an unprecedented amount of rainfall on September 1st and 2nd, several railroads in the area of Manville and Bound Brook, NJ ended up underwater. Causing issues with th... (more)

In Summer 1972, LV C628s 627-628 cross Metuchen Road to enter the yard in South Plainfield, NJ to make a pick-up for JSA-1. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo.

NS 211 heads west on Conrail Lehigh Line Track #2 with an SD70 rebuild on point (rebuilt from SD70 NS 2530 in April of 2019). Behind the leader are NS 9752 (C44-9W) and NS 3641 (ET44AC).

Ex-Conrail C40-8 8306, which was built as Conrail 6034 in March, 1989, hustles a Norfolk Southern intermodal train east through South Plainfield, NJ on the "shared assets" portion of the... (more)

My father and I were were back out on the LV the next Saturday. Unfortunately, Saturday, March 13, 1976, was also an overcast day in New Jersey. We were rewarded with C628s on NE-1 again, this t... (more)