"Tri-Schemes in the Tri-State Area"

Tunnel Motor on Yard Duty

WS-4 has NYS&W 3016 for power as the crew is tasked with switching out well cars in CSX's Little Ferry intermodal yard. The bridge which this train is... (more)

CSX Q008 is approaching the cross over at CP5, where the train will diverge onto the NYS&W for the short run to the CSX Little Ferry Intermodal Terminal. The train is passing the former Ridgefield... (more)

NYS&W's WS1 local freight has PRLX GP38-2 for power and former Chessie System caboose 0121 as a shoving platform.

Lots of colorful power on today's K040. The train is crossing the Overpeck Creek, en route to a recrew at North Bergen, N.J. .

CSX priority intermodal train Q010 nears its terminus in North Bergen, N.J., as it crosses the Overpeck Creek.

"Veteran Power on Hotshot UPS"

A trio of EMDs leads Q254 south through Ridgefield Park, NJ, the leader being a leased SD40 variant.

"An Eclectic Mix of Power"

While trackside in Hillside I heard CSX K637 getting permission to cross the Upper Bay Bridge on the National Docks Secondary. Initially I hadn't g... (more)

A southbound stack train led by CSX 698 passes the station at Ridgefield Park.

An NYS&W crew has a CSX GP38-2 for power. The light engine is headed for the MC Yard to pickup three freight cars for the North Bergen Industrial Track. The locomotive is passing the new Marble.co... (more)

Empty trash train Q710 races north on CSX's River Subdivision, as it passes the NYS&W WS2 drilling the MC Yard

A light CSX GP38-2 assigned to service on Susquehanna is moved out of the NYS&W engine facility by a local crew. In the background, CSX North Bergen-based local Y220 shoves a long cut of intercha... (more)

A colorful consist that includes a CSX SD40-3, BNSF "H2" C44-9W and a BNSF "warbonnet" C44-9W rolls across Overpeck Creek on a crystal clear spring morning with a loaded crude oil train in tow. R... (more)

"Dual Flags Over Overpeck"