Conrail's OI-16 is departing Ron (Port Reading) with tonnage for Brown's Yard in Old Bridge. Power for the train are two former Erie Lackawanna SD45-2 locomotives. The train is on Conrail's Garden... (more)

Conrail's OI-16 has just made a set off at Port Reading Yard. The crew has back their locomotives against the remaining portion of the train and is preparing to depart for Brown's Yard in Old Bri... (more)

An ex-CNW AC44 sits next to the remnants of an old CNJ signal bridge.

A colorful lashup for ethanol train K684. The tankers were dropped off and the power was brought down to Port Reading yard to be spun at the wye, and then it would head back to the north end of th... (more)

Happy late birthday to me. The morning after my birthday in July, NS saw fit to bring me the Nickel Plate heritage unit on the point of intermodal train 20R, seen here rounding the curve at... (more)

On a hazy July day Conrail's OI16 is passing Block Limit Station Ron. The train is on Conrail's Chemical Coast Line, formerly the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Perth Amboy & Elizabethport Branc... (more)

KCS units occasionally visit New Jersey on crude oil trains and less often on ethanol trains. This empty ethanol train is being pulled out of the Motiva refinery behind KCS 3921 and CEFX 1035 on ... (more)

Conrail's Oak Island to Browns Yard transfer train is departing Port Reading behind a pair of former Erie Lackawanna SD45-2 locomotives.

Conrail's OI-60 is just departing Port Reading, as it thumps across the Port Reading Secondary. The train, originating at the large Oak Island Yard, is destined for Brown's Yard in Old Bridge, N.... (more)

A Conrail crew pulls ethanol empties out of Motiva with a nice consist of standard-cab EMDs including: DME 6370, CP 6234, CP 4437 and CP 4422. This train arrived the day before as CSX K408 and ap... (more)

The former Reading Railroad McMyler coal dumper was constructed in 1917 to handle the increasing coal traffic that was destined for the New York Harbor. In 1951 the pier caught fire. Much of the o... (more)

Conrail OI-82 brings a train of Norfolk Southern maintenance of way equipment south to Browns Yard. Reportedly there is a tie replacement project scheduled in the near future on one or more of th... (more)

A pair of former Erie Lackawanna SD45's (1705 & 1701) head south through Port Reading.

With a set-off in Port Reading Yard complete, Conrail JR-2 proceeds south down the Chemical Coast. An all-day snow storm which has covered the rails ahead of JR-2 is tapering off, but the heavy, ... (more)

Conrail JR-2 has a typical matched set of former Erie Lackawanna SD45-2s in the lead (NS 1701 & 1705), with CSXT 2810 along for the ride down to Browns Yard. A heavy, wet snow has fallen througho... (more)