Was there ever a period where Browns Yard was taken out of service or scaled back? Looking at historicaerials it seems in the 1940s it was mostly coal cars (I'll assume for the coal dumps in S Amboy), in the '50s and 60's general freight, then in the late 60s to late 70s it looked like a barren wasteland with no cars, then in the late 80s to present it's full of general freight cars again.
carajul wrote:Was there ever a period where Browns Yard was taken out of service or scaled back? Looking at historicaerials it seems in the 1940s it was mostly coal cars (I'll assume for the coal dumps in S Amboy), in the '50s and 60's general freight, then in the late 60s to late 70s it looked like a barren wasteland with no cars, then in the late 80s to present it's full of general freight cars again.I believe they (conrail) consolidated a few yards and made Browns the "main yard" for the area - I can think of Red Bank Yard, probably the biggest, that was shut down, Neptune yard, whatever remained at Matawan, and wasn't there a small yard out by Jamesburg too?