A lot of mainline for a little train... Conrail ME-18 has four cars and a caboose as it makes a run for the General Tire lead in Edison on the Northeast Corridor.
Browns Yard local SA31 lays over in Lakehurst on a warm April afternoon with NS GP38-2 5282 for power. The stop sign was placed by the railroad to indicate the current end of the line, as the tra... (more)
NS GP38-2s 5282 is coupled to a CSX GP38-2 at Conrail's Pavonia Yard on this February morning, showing the meaning of Shared Assets. Both units are former Conrail engines.
In the last few minutes of sunlight, NS 5282 accelerates out of Browns Yard and over the South River with the nightly local for the industries along the Conrail Shared Assets' Dayton Branch.
The conductor rides out on the front porch of NS 5282 as it creeps over the South River at East Brunswick.
Running long hood forward down the Amboy Secondary, NS 5282 leads two covered hoppers past the flowering Crabapple Trees trackside in Helmetta.
Norfolk Southern GP38-2 5282 is stopped on the Church Running Track while the conductor walks back from closing the switch from NJT's North Jersey Coast Line at the north end of the South Amboy st... (more)
Conrail Shared Assets Operations job SA31 making their way down the ex-CNJ Southern Secondary Track.
ME2 at the end of the work day getting ready to head back onto the NEC and back to Metuchen Yard. The locomotive formerly was CR 8079 (under Conrail) and PC 8079 (under the Penn Central). It was s... (more)
ME2 arrives at Jersey Ave at the start of the work day. The locomotive formerly was CR 8079 (under Conrail) and PC 8079 (under the Penn Central). It was sold to Progress Rail in April of 2020.
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