Freight Across the Navesink

Weekly local freight SA-31 stretches across the Navesink River on its southbound journey to Lakewood.

SA-31 with a Conrail blue GP38-2 passes the abandoned Snuff Mill in Helmetta.

CSXT 2814 leads a short SA-31 over the South River at East Brunswick.

Norfolk Southern GP38-2 no. 5281 passes the abandoned Helme Snuff Mill in Helmetta on Columbus Day 2010. The Conrail locomotive and the Mill itself are both on borrowed time. Abandoned since 199... (more)

NS GP38-2 no. 5281, still in Conrail blue, passes the Fall foliage along the Amboy Secondary on a beautiful Columbus Day afternoon.

The conductor rides out on the front porch of NS 5282 as it creeps over the South River at East Brunswick.

Running long hood forward down the Amboy Secondary, NS 5282 leads two covered hoppers past the flowering Crabapple Trees trackside in Helmetta.

Running long hood forward, CSXT GP40-2 no. 4412 leads a short three car train over the South River in East Brunswick.

A westbound freight with a CSX GP38-2 in the lead rides under the catenary on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line at South Amboy. The train is destined for the Southern Secondary.

A westbound train crosses the South River as it enters East Brunswick. The train is leaving Browns Yard on the Amboy Secondary.

NS 5284 heads west through Spotswood on the (once electrified) Amboy Secondary. The four cars in tow are destined for the Freehold Secondary.

With seventeen cars in tow, NS 5284 leads a local freight west on the Amboy Secondary through Spotswood.

Local freight out of Browns Yard heads west through Helmetta with four cars destined for the Freehold Secondary. The train is on Conrail's once electrified Amboy Secondary. To see a photo of thi... (more)

A local freight creeps out of Browns Yard and over the South River as it begins its journey to Freehold. Notice the catenary pole along the line, a remnant of the Pennsylvania Railroad's electrif... (more)