A Conrail train working out of Port Reading Yard. CSXT 4412 is the second unit. Both units were originally built for Conrail as CR 3293 and CR 3306, respectively.

The crew of Conrail OI-16 slowly shoves their consist of transfer cars from Oak Island Yard into Port Reading Yard, past the signal at CP RON.

OI-16 approaches CP RON with a healthy cut of tank cars in tow for Port Reading Yard. The Erie Lackawanna heritage unit is now equipped with PTC and some related hardware clutters the cab roof. ... (more)

This yard, formerly owned by the Reading Railroad, now continues as part of the Conrail shared assets operations between NS and CSX. This yard mainly serves the refineries and other local industr... (more)

The Port Reading Diamond - A light geep traveling east on the Port Reading Secondary crosses the diamond as she heads back to the Port Reading Yard. A second tri light has been recently... (more)

Elephants in Port Reading Yard

A look at the CR Port Reading yard with a partial view of an abandoned coal dumper in the distance.

Juniata Terminal E8As led an OCS train for the Lexington Group across various pieces of Conrail Shared Assets trackage in Northern and Central New Jersey on Halloween 2015. Here they cross the dia... (more)

Conrail PR-32 shoves into Port Reading Yard after completing a round trip to Oak Island Yard in Newark. A spring nor'easter is in the process of depositing more snow on the region after several o... (more)

Foreign Power on the Chemical Coast - This pair of UP locomotives had uncoupled from their ethanol train (in distance) and prepare to shove it south of here to Motiva in Seweran.

Sometimes, you get really lucky. After hearing that the PR-32 detour had 2 NS units, I almost gave up on finding the real target of the day on Saturday, July 22, 2017: Norfolk Southern Corp... (more)

Foiled Again
The Erie Lackawanna heritage unit had been leading OI-16 all week...until I arrived on this day when the power was "spun". Oh well. CSXT 8881 leads NS 1700 and a short 1... (more)

Conrail's OI-16 has just left the Port Reading setoff on the East Siding and is proceed south to Wood Interlocking in Perth Amboy, N.J.

Conrail's OI-16 is departing Port Reading with one locomotive for power. The CSX SD40-2 is ample power for the short train of Brown's Yard bound freight cars. The train's second locomotive, EL her... (more)

Conrail OI-16 pulls onto the Port Reading Secondary after dropping cars at the Port Reading Yard. It will soon reverse direction backing onto the Garden State Secondary to continue onto Browns Yar... (more)