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The Camden & Amboy trackage ends just a few hundred yards south of where it goes under the Turnpike. However, there is a reverse switch that serves a warehouse on the west side of the pike, though it hasn't been used for a while it seems. A small forest was recently cleared in the area; might th...

Someone mentioned the Camden & Amboy, and I think it's a shame that Conrail ripped out the center section. It has limited use as a passenger secondary, with or without catenary, but would have been a really nice secondary main for NS at the Conrail split. Even more of a shame was the reason tha...

...we'll almost certainly see the next generation single level fleet fitted with closed overhead compartments rather than the open compartments we have now. This will most likely cut down on the number of folks injured by flying baggage, which I'm guessing was not an insignificant number of the inj...

You know that spur off the NEC in Odenton, the one which is one of the last remnants of the WB&A? It hadn't seen a train for a while, I think since the closing of a paper company at the end of the line. Today there's a mixed NS freight sitting on the spur just before the first of the two grade c...

Somewhere between Harold Interlocking and the Hunters Point Ave. station, just before entering the tunnels, there are twin track flyovers that ascend from between the running tracks. Looking at Google Maps, the tracks join on a common viaduct, then head south until they meet the Montauk line heading...

There were at least two different types of wooden escalators on the T. 1) Step-type. The pictures that were posted in this thread were Otis units that are very similar to today's escalators, except they were made mostly of wood, with thick wooden cleats on the surface of the steps. Several escalator...

It seems to have taken place near the intersection of 66th and E Biddle. Google Maps shows a lone grade crossing nearby with only crossbucks. I wonder if that's where the truck was hit? There appears be a paved-over industrial spur crossing on Biddle, with RxR still painted on the pavement in at lea...

A new system map appeared today. Like the draft posted earlier, this map includes the new silver line, along with the alternate rush-hour routings of the orange and yellow lines.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=654&sid=2792966

The first time I ever took the CSSSB was around 1988. In some area between Gary and Hammond, I noticed a parallel rail line in the process of abandonment. I distinctly remember that the tracks were north of the CSSSB r/w, about 20-30 yards away. At one point, a bridge over a road was still standing,...

My father-in-law used to be in the bagel business. One store he had an interest in was the Bagel Chateau on Inman Ave. in Edison, a store which also happens to essentially abut the Lehigh line. He told me that about 10 years ago, a train would approach on the Lehigh line in the morning and stop. The...

The northern stub-end of the Camden & Amboy is being ripped up as well! But don't panic, this time it's only temporary. You know how the tracks end just south of running under the NJ Turnpike? Well, the Turnpike is being widened, extended the truck lanes from Exit 8A to Exit 6. As such, every ov...

The bridge abutment in Hightstown is still standing. Check out this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWpqqR-VltU

Peddie lake overflowed, something nasty, due to Hurricane Irene. The bridge pier is visible at 0:14. Several other videos are available as well.

So it is.
http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2011/0 ... -flow.html

The Columbia Branch used to have a smaller branch, ripped up only about 10 years ago, that went east to serve a warehouse or two. The trackage literally abutted the rear of the parking lot of the Snowden Square cinema. Somewhere I have a picture of the rail overpass that went across Robert Fulton Dr...

@dti406, I've wondered a few things about the power lines that parallel the Toledo Terminal trackage. It appears that the same contractor built the towers around the whole TT loop! I am not an engineer, but the subtleties in the truss structures are all the same. (There are exceptions: a few towers ...