NS 5277 switching industries

Q301 heads through South Plainfield on a warm October evening in the last few rays of light. The train is led by an SD50 which was just recently upgraded at CSX's Huntington Shops to an SD50-3 rec... (more)

"Wabash Southern"

The Southern heritage unit leads a Union Pacific AC44CW and a BNSF Dash 9-44CW eastbound through South Plainfield along the Shared Assets Lehigh Line.

NS 33K

The crude oil boom has provided railfans in New Jersey with a chance to see locomotives from every class 1 railroad in North America. This empty crude oil train is returning westbound (running ea... (more)

Conrail MA-80 arrives in the yard at South Plainfield on a rainy Saturday morning. This job typically runs on Saturdays to serve Marino\WARE, a steel fabricator. The pair of NS GP38-2s are in th... (more)

a CP SD60 makes a rare appearance south of the North Jersey yard complex onto Conrail Shared Assets Operations

A rare BNSF Heritage III "Swoosh" SD70MAC leads K040 through the snow.

CSX oil train K040 headed to Philadelphia heads west on the Shared Assets Lehigh Line. A great mix of power for this train has BNSF SD70MAC in the Burlington Northern "Executive" paint scheme lea... (more)

NS 20R was the first train to travel over the Port Reading Secondary after a snow and ice storm the previous day. As such, this train cleared snow from the grade crossings along the way. An unco... (more)

A 5 EMD locomotive consist leads this train with a rare CSX SD70ACe and an EMD GP30 Road Slug trailing with an SD60M SD60 Standard Cab and GP40-2 in the middle. Almost 50 years of EMD in one locom... (more)

An interesting mix of BNSF and NS power leads an empty crude oil train east on Conrail's Lehigh Line. The Virginian heritage unit had arrived the previous week on a Philadelphia-bound loaded crud... (more)

Two Norfolk Southern GEs speed eastbound through South Plainfield with a line of containers on the last day of summer. (Special thanks to Jason Bialecki for his fine work at this location, and so... (more)