South Jersey

At 9:30 Thursday morning, three trains were at Cove Road: NS 39G on 2-running, and WPCA20 and CSX Q418 on 1-running.

NS 61N through Camden

-The empty steel slab train exits the west end of Pavonia Yard and past the gutted shell of a former trash incinerator facility, enroute to Westville:

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-NS 61N crossing a calm Newton Creek with the Covanta Camden Energy Recovery Center as the backdrop:

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Ben

4/14/2017

A daylight 62X stone train ran through the cherry blossoms of Magnolia with two month old NS 3648 leading NS 8785, a standard cab Dash 9.

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End of the train-
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Thursday's 39G has UP 7427 and UP 8884 leading, photographed at Cove Road at 9 AM.

-CSX SD40E3 #1707 which was delivered to CSAO earlier this month was sent out on her first assignment in South Jersey yesterday (4/19) on WPCA-11. Seen here working the SMS interchange in Bridgeport:

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(photos by Chris Carangi)
Ben

SD40E3 CSX 1707 replaced long-time WPCA11 engine SD40-2 CSX 8817, which left town today on CSX Q418.

The latest 'South Jersey Trains' video is out for March 2017.
Included is a daylight stone train on the Beesleys Point, Union Pacific visitor on 61N, SD40-2 leader on 39G in the snow, and much more.

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There is a very interesting article recently posted in Progressive Railroading regarding the technological improvements in Conrail's Pavonia Yard. I'd post it but don't want to violate any copyright rules. In short, they removed the hump and went to one man operations, while installing about 232 GPS-linked sensors and 32 cameras to allow for greater observation and control of the yard. they invested about $5 million in new technologies, mostly not yet used by other railroads, and cut operating costs 70%. They said they didn't lay anyone off, just transferred to other assignments.

The article is available online.

4/26/2017

Today's power on WPCA11 had both the 'regular' power and the BNSF power from last week's K141.

Bridgeport Movable Bridge-
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Repaupo-
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CSX 1707-
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BNSF power-
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Gibbstown-
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The BNSF Pumpkins were still at Pavonia Tuesday morning, as was SW1001 CSX 1123.

5/4/2017

Trifecta meet at Cove Road with 39G, CA20, and a n/b RiverLINE train-
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39G's consist had a variety of rolling stock including this former McCloud River box car-
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Q418 was behind CA20 and pulled up closer to the crossing after they left-
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5/6/2017
39G has NS 2772 leading an ex-BN SD60M today.

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NS 6807-
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Q418 has BNSF 8120 leading a clean 5 week old ET44C4, BNSF 3739.

Coming out of Pavonia-
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BNSF 3739-
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5/6/2017

Today's 38G arrived with a Union Pacific leader.

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The latest 'South Jersey Trains' video for April 2017 is out featuring scenes of a daylight 62X stone train on the Beesleys, BNSF pair on WPCA11, standard cab SD70 leading 38G, and an empty military train led by a pair of KCS Belles in Woodbourne, PA.

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