Working the Perth Amboy Branch - After running around its train MA-1 is now in position to exchange coil cars at Marino Ware and to work the South Plainfield Yard.

Westbound manifest train hauling through the signals in South Plainfield.

Westbound Local in South Plainfield

A lone GP38-2 leads the Manville based local Westbound through South Plainfield with a short mixed consist in tow. They are easing by at a m... (more)

Frozen Juice
A fairly long Tropicana "Orange Juice Train" navigates through 2+ feet of snow that had fallen two days earlier during a blizzard.

While waiting for the Conductor and Conductor Trainee to finish lunch, I stepped out and snapped a shot of our locomotive, on track PA-5 (part of the exLV Perth Amboy Branch)

Two days after the "Blizzard of 2016" there is still snow...everywhere...in New Jersey. The lead unit on Q176 is plastered with it, and there is plenty covering the tracks to be kicked... (more)

With the last bit of fall color still in place, a brand new Tier 4 Gevo leads Philly bound oil train K138.

Conrail MA80 serving the Marino Ware factory.

A Conrail rail train runs west to Manville to tie down for the evening. New rail has been dropped along the Port Reading Secondary for an upcoming replacement project. The symbol of this train i... (more)

Tuscan Red Foliage

As clouds set in the tuscan red Pennsylvania Railroad E8's and fall foliage in South Plainfield offer plenty of color in the suns absence. The train is runni... (more)

Soo Line Leader on the Lehigh Line

The long since abolished CP job which ran from Bethlehem to Oak Island to keep trackage rights into New Jersey is seen heading through South ... (more)

BNSF 5774 is on K-140 at South Plainfield, NJ 9/15/2015

BNSF 9021 is on K-038 at South Plainfield, NJ 9/15/2015

Finally! 66Z arrives in New Jersey after sitting in Bethlehem, PA for roughly 36 hours. The train was held until a prior 66Z could be unloaded at the terminal in Linden, NJ. The NS Lehigh Valle... (more)

The Erie heritage unit leads NS 66Z east on Conrail's Port Reading Secondary. NS 1068 and 1156 (both SD70ACes) are hauling crude oil loads to Linden, NJ.