Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion

Yep I see it between the signal and the crossbuck at Marl Rd.

Wow. Can’t believe it used to look like that! When were those signals shut off? I presume not long after the last through train to South Jersey?

Amazing to see what the line looked like.

Ken W2KB wrote: ↑Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:34 am

Bracdude181 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 5:53 pm https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/ ... grants.pdf

The six projects getting funding are within the link. Farmingdale to Freehold phase 2 is one of them.

Interesting that the grants for Fiscal Year 2023 are announced with only three months left in the fiscal year. Fiscal Year 2024 begins on July 1, 2023. I wonder if the grants are held in abeyance until it is known how much money is left, i.e., unspent, in the overall entire state budget?

I suspect its more likely the entire grant process needed to occur within a single fiscal year, so the announcement of grant funding, the submittal of grant applications, the decisions about which applications to award, and the award, all had to be done within a single fiscal year. This could easily put awards towards the end of the fiscal year. At least in the Federal government, unspent funds in one fiscal year are not known to be available to be reallocated until about the last 8 weeks of the fiscal year (early August typically). If NJ is anything like the feds, this would mean that unspent funds wouldn't be available to redistribute until May.

Anyone know if last nights storms did any damage to the tracks? Heard a few tornadoes touched down last night…

Here is the fleet tied down for the weekend shortly before the storm came in. How unique is the Southern Pacific boxcar?

https://imgur.com/a/Sjap6uh

Those SP cars show up once in a while. What’s the loaded centerbeam doing on the siding?

Is the siding the track with the telephone pole car? If so, I think it's just an optical illusion. If I recall correctly, the loaded centerbeam was not on the same track as the telephone pole car.

I know, but they don’t usually leave cars for builders on the siding….

The pole car is on the team track.

On that pic of the Marl Road crossing, the single head signal once had a large "take siding" lamp under the signal head. I only saw it lit once, many years ago. The three-head absolute signal on the west/southbound side protecting the crossing was in operation until the crossing was removed. It was a regular thing to go through Farmingdale and see three reds displayed, occasionally a green over red-red.

Patch article with updates about the ongoing situation at the Compounders Inc. site at 15 Marl Road in Howell.

https://patch.com/new-jersey/howell/epa ... ums-howell

Bracdude181 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 9:24 am I know, but they don’t usually leave cars for builders on the siding….

The pole car is on the team track.

Four lumber flats were interchanged on 3-29 to DRR. Only three flats fit on the flat track at Builders General, that means the flat in the picture is the one that was left over.

Ahhh I see.

How come 1888 parks in Jamesburg but 2005 parks in Freehold?

Anyone see the train yet?

Leaving Lakewood now with about 7 cars.

Locals were climbing on the train again in Lakewood.