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Here in West Deptford and East Greenwich Twp, the weeds are 3 feet high currently. I haven't seen it this bad, ever.

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Since last discussion on this topic, the two SRNJ GPs haven't moved from their parking spot at Woodbury wye. There's a lumber car sitting in the yard that looks like it was dropped there, awaiting transport down the Salem line, maybe to Garmar.

Even on the Penns Grove line south of Paulsboro, traffic has slowed to a trickle- the Deepwater coal plant is gone and Dupont is mostly shut down. I wouldn't necessarily say "a trickle". WPCA-11(CSAO) still regularly interchanges cars with SMS Lines in Bridgeport, and the Deepwater plant ...

None of those named are active. The farmers exchange may receive two cars a year, and I don't think any in 2018. Garmar Industries received some lumber on the conrail part of the line in the past few years. The rest have closed or gone away from rail. Currently there is some SRNJ equipment parked in...

That Salem branch is dead, and industry in Salem is likely never coming back. The only two customers that remain are the Farmer's Exchange in Woodstown and Garmar near Rt. 322 above the interchange. The glass factory is gone, Mannington's business was lost, and as far as I know, the pole treatment p...

I'm not sure if the pole treatment plant receives cars anymore, it's been a while. The glass plant is shuttered and so is rail service to Mannington. The Salem port operation only services one large ship, a weekly freighter to Bermuda and back. There is one additional customer on the conrail-owned p...

You're talking about the one directly south of the Del. Mem. Bridge? I didn't realize the conversion never happened. Just know that sometime in the last several years the pile of coal next to it got smaller and smaller, and then one day very recently they tore up the storage pad and conveyor. I wond...

This is the end of the line for the daily CA-11 and occasional nighttime NS coal run (normally NS506). The adjacent Carneys Point Generating Station receives coal hoppers, which it burns to produce electricity and steam for the chemical plant next door. As far as I know trains no longer cross the Sa...

When I attended Rutgers University around 12 years ago, the tracks still extended to some warehouses that were part of the Livingston campus and used by the facilities maintenance guys for storing equipment. The tracks were paved over in many places and had obviously not been used in some time (deca...

Same type of loading/unloading operation as in Camden (Broadway Terminal) where steel slabs are unloaded from the ship and placed on a flatbed trailer, then driven a few thousand feet to a location across the street from the docks and loaded into rail gondolas staged on a spur track similar to what'...

No work occuring on the Mantua Creek bridge visible from Kings Hwy. I live right up the street. It must be the one just south of US 322 and North of downtown Swedesboro. I think that's the Racoon Creek? That's the only other waterway crossing on the Conrail-owned section. I agree, this line will see...

What bridge, out of curiosity? I'm guessing we will see this line abandoned in the near future. Industry in Salem is gone and never coming back, unfortunately.

John, in your second video, the string of tanks coming east out of the WW yard across Burlington Rd., were they empties coming out of storage? It seems like the Winchester and Western knows how to run a business-- as far as I can tell every industry located along the line gets service from them regu...

Sunday and Monday are also the slowest days on the Vineland and Pennsgrove secondaries. I love along the Penns in the west end of Woodbury and Sunday/Monday's CA-11 is sometimes as short as 25 cars. Runs later on those days also. Tuesday to Saturday is steady. Slightly off topic, but does anyone kno...