Delaware and Raritan River Railroad-General Discussion

What direction where they going? North or South? And did they have loaded cars?

Heard from back yard. Sounded going south

Hmm. Maybe they did have inbounds then.

Please let us know if you hear them again. If they were going south they should come back within an hour.

Both 752 and 2005 are in Red Bank as of 1 PM

Then that means they only ran today just to get Woodhavens empties out…

Train went to Freehold today…

Southbound through Downtown Farmingdale 9:20 AM

BDRV 752, C&D 2005, and 6 cars.

Northbound at DCS LAKEWOOD 11:22 AM

752 is going back to Red Bank light. 2005 and all 6 cars were dropped at Woodhaven.

Tracks Unlimited is inspecting the Southern Secondary between Maxim Rd and Victory Rd…

752 light thru northbound Farmingdale 12:10 PM. Someone recording from a Toyota. Crossing gate non-functional. Flagger got wet.

Those lights haven’t worked since the JCPL substation fires. Weirdly Central Ave wasn’t affected nor was Marl Rd…

A friend has informed me Tracks Unlimited is going to be doing some form of work in the area they were seen at earlier. Something about a “patch job”

RB-1 Northbound at DCS EARLE 12:51 PM

Back in Red Bank 1:45 PM

Was driving to the Howell Lowes and saw a nice looking backhoe clearing brush on the switch track that goes into the old lumberyard on Oak Glen Rd. Now it's Ferguson. Came back and saw the area by the tracks was all cleared out as well. Is Conrail putting in something new? I heard the Howell residents were trying to fight off a Lakewood backed garbage dump in that area. Could this have anything to do with the dump?

FrontFrank, you should perhaps copy this into the Delaware and Raritan River thread, as they now handle freight along this line, having taken over from Conrail. Maybe they are picking up a new customer. That would be good.

It's a tie replacement job. They are going to be delivering new ties there. From there they will be dropped where ties need to be replaced.

On another note, I thought the dump plan fell through?