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Agreed hats off to the crew for such a smooth run. Definitely feel privileged to have done this one. The amount of people track side in PA and west Jersey was incredible.

I think these are MCVX cars for fire training. They've been sitting down here for a bit. Please pardon the horrendous phone camera from a moving car picture. This Bakelite factory must've been something else at full song, model railroaders dream, with diamonds a head shunt and lots of switches. <a h...

Does anyone know what will happen to the end of the Middle Brook industrial track with the work that is going on for the chimney rock road/22/287 project?

Will the quarry be severed?

Thats pretty cool, people really underestimate what their cars can do. Something like a Chevy Impala handles surprisingly well, not that it'll look pretty doing any of the exercises that we do. Usually the people who bring the worst cars learn the most and actually drive the best. I can't tell you h...

I'm sure there are a lot of Newark division engineers on here, so this is my shout out from the high performance driving school at TD Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater. The railroad is a nice distraction from training pharmaceutical reps for me. (As are the Haverhill line in Mass, Water Level Route in Sy...

According to one of the "Northeast Corridor 1976-2007" videos on youtube South Amboy had manually controlled gates until 1983 and the demise of engine changes there. Not sure how accurate that is, but it says these were the last manual gates in NJ.

Thank you Tom_E_Reynolds and Kilroy for the links to the pics. The one I remember is the one in primer at the end of the line in on the RRpicturearchives.net link. I never had any idea there were three others there with the NJDOT paint scheme. They must've been inside or something. Pretty cool stuff.

As the subject says this is a long shot. Anyway in the early nineties when I was about 8 I remember my dad and I stopping to look at an all white Streamlined Diesel locomotive in Kennilworth. It had to be an E or an F unit. After some brief online searching it a appears that this location was the Ra...

This yard is Waverly yard. It used to be completely electrified and huge in the days of the PRR and PC. Currently it only serves Anheuser Busch AFAIK. Tracks come out of Oak Island yard and parallels the NEC to EWR station. This area was under consideration as a place to turn NJT ARC trains at one p...

I rode a shuttle recently from Springfield down to Wallingford. According to one of the conductors I talked to Amtrak is running with the Locomotive first on both trips because of leaves as Dutch alluded to.

So I passed through Lebanon station today to see if anything else has been repainted, and I noticed that GG-1 is missing. (or I need to go to the optometrist since I can't see something big and yellow) I tried searching this forum and URHS thread for insight. I feel like this would generate news on ...

Thanks for all the info about the moves. It seems very stupid to me that NS won't let NJT rebuild the line, since NJT uses it way more often and it would benefit Somerville Lumber (the last other customer left) to some extent. Its too bad that all the other sidings are dead. Turtle and Hughs are doi...

So I was coming back from somewhere on route 22 tonight and got stopped at the grade crossing for Stavola's. Pretty cool to see a work Geep run long hood forward. Anyway I had a couple questions about quarry trains I couldn't find answers for on other threads. This was the first consist I had ever s...

So I was coming back from somewhere on route 22 tonight and got stopped at the grade crossing for Stavola's. Pretty cool to see a work Geep run long hood forward. Anyway I had a couple questions about quarry trains I couldn't find answers for on other threads. This was the first consist I had ever s...

Based off of my reading of Conquering Gotham, which is a book about building Penn Station, the North River tunnels and Hell Gate line, PRR commuter operations were prolific. They terminated at Exchange Place in Jersey city and used the PATH (nee H&M) alignment from Newark Penn Station onward, wh...