New York Susquehanna and Western Railway

Does anyone happen to know what the train schedule is for the NYS&W? I would like to try and chase them one day. Primarily looking for the New Jersey area.

There is an entire thread for the NYS&W under Class II Regional Freight Railroads that should be helpful.

Hardly any posting on that thread.
This would be a good place for an NYSW NJ ops thread, if a few ppl want to keep it current IMHO. I tend to look for everything NJ here, not by RR's North Jersey is like one big terminal area....

Do they still use the NS and CSX GP units?

@Railcar1 Yes. NYSW currently has a couple geeps from NS and CSX on lease. One is NS 5212, an old high hood.

Yesterday, (Tuesday 28 Mar) there was a mixed freight running through the grade crossing on Newark Pompton TPKE, (Riverdale/Bloomingdale) around 4:30, if that is helpful. They come blasting uphill through the grade crossing. Some tankers, grain cars & boxcars.

They also run to a fenced in transloading yard in Riverdale in the evenings, although I don't think that is as regular.

Bracdude181 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 10:03 pm @Railcar1 Yes. NYSW currently has a couple geeps from NS and CSX on lease. One is NS 5212, an old high hood.

Thank you

No problem. I think most of the leased stuff is in Ridgefield Park yard. They also got CSX 2722, 2651, and 4423.

4423 used to come down the Southern Secondary alot.

The SU-100 / SU-99 had been on a Monday - Wednesday- Friday passing through Butler NJ between 1-5 am.

As of late, Eastbound SU-100 comes through Butler between 1-5 am on Tuesdays and Fridays with its counterpart leaving around 4:00pm from Ridgefield Park on the same days. Recent photos on Facebook show them making Vernon with some light.

But today, Monday April 3, SU-100 came through Butler around 1-2am.

As some people here may know, the NYS&W Railroad does not have their own paint shop. Any locomotives paint jobs have to get contracted out, or come in new painted by the builder.

So, much to my surprise yesterday (April 6th), I saw NYS&W (ex-NS) SD70M-2 4064 in full Susquehanna paint, being readied as the trailing unit of three for the SU-99. It even has full "Susquehanna" lettering on the nose.

Well.... not quite. An "S" seems to have peeled off. It actually reads "usquehanna."

lol

The locomotives have been getting painted inside the shop building in Butler, NJ formerly occupied by the NYS&W Tech Society. The former NS SD40-2 is currently getting painted.

Silverliner II wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 5:52 pm As some people here may know, the NYS&W Railroad does not have their own paint shop. Any locomotives paint jobs have to get contracted out, or come in new painted by the builder.

Oh, they can do their painting now? This is new information to me! Thank you!

PennRail42 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 6:10 am Does anyone happen to know what the train schedule is for the NYS&W? I would like to try and chase them one day. Primarily looking for the New Jersey area.

Most of their Jersey works done in the evening or night. See them working in the night between Ridgefield and upper JC.

What’s the deal with this caboose in the Ridgefield Park yard?