by Suburbanite
nick11a wrote:I often hear mid-day trains on the Mountain Lakes stretch and wonder what they are? I can't see them clearly through the trees two blocks away, so I don't know if they are freight, maintenance of ROW, or shifting of commuter trains to avoid tie-ups on the M&E or to re-position them for service east of the Great Notch yards. Also, a few weeks ago, driving on I-287, I saw an engine (hood type, and neither very old nor brand new, probably GM, but I'm not sure) in McGuinness New Haven black and orange, hauling a short string of freight cars (I zipped underneath too fast to remember exactly what, but I think they were contemporary commodity-shipment bulk carriers) headed westbound on the overpass in or near Montville. My first thought was that it was headed to the rail fans' repair yard in Boonton, but the train it was hauling was a bit long (four - six cars?) and they were too modern for that to make sense. This probably would have been on a Saturday, towards dusk; I wish I'd recorded the date. Anybody know of antique-painted engines being used to haul real revenue cars? Or was I hallucinating? (Something I've never done before).riffian wrote:H02 goes that far East only once a week though, right?Sometimes twice a week, sometimes once. Tuesdays and Thursdays are historically the more likely days for them to go up there. These days, they only go as far as Mountain View to gain access to the Pompton and Totowa Industrial Tracks.