Had a great day with everyone who came out today - it was a heck of a hot day, but still worth it.
Our day began at the Atco train station on the Atlantic City Line where we first waited for the 1.5 hour late northbound 4662. Heavy storms across the region the night before resulted in signal problems along the entire length of the Atlantic City Line.
NJT 4662 arrives nearly 1.5 hours late at Atco:
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As NJ Railfan Forum Moderator Dave Halbert watches on, 4662 proceeds northbound out of Atco station for the remainder of it's slow and steady trip to Philadelphia:
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Next, we headed to Winslow Junction to check out what was going on there. Not much happening on this Saturday morning, but I snagged this photo of 3519 basking in the sun on the former CNJ main:
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We drove down to Crowfoot Asphalt, but upon investigation, it does not appear that they are any longer a railroad customer. At least to my estimation, it does not look like the facility has seen a stone train over the pit in about a year. If anyone knows for sure how long it has been since the last stone train to this facility and the state of their status as a railroad customer, feel free to chime in.
We made a brief stop to check out the barely used bridge at Collings Lake, and then proceeded to Woodbury to begin following the Salem Running Track to it's end. Shortly after our arrival at Woodbury, Pavonia made it known that a southbound was on the way to Woodbury Heights to drop off a cut of cars which would eventually end up at Millville. The power of the day was a pair of dash 9's on local CA-04, seen here within the interlocking at CP WOODBURY:
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After dropping their cars on the storage tracks at Woodbury Heights, CA-04 holds at the stop signal at CP WOODBURY while part of our group looks on:
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After CA-04 proceeded north to Camden light, we proceeded to head south on the Salem Branch. We hit Swedesboro, Woodstown, Alloway Junction, and Salem, although nothing was really going on at any of these locations, and so no photos are included in this documentation. Some stretches of the Salem Branch are actually quite impressive in their stability after being rebuilt, including the area of Alloway Junction, which now consists of welded rail.
We got lucky and caught another southbound out of Camden as we were wrapping up the day at Gloucester City, but I was not quick enough to snab a photo.
Thanks to everyone who came out today - I hope we can all do it again sometime.
Mike DiMunno
Pres - SJRA / SJRail.com
~Mike DiMunno
CSAO Beesley Point Secondary - MP 8.69 (Magnolia, NJ)
Moderator: Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines :: Penn Central
), we were off to our first stop of the day: Wawa. After picking up some drinks and snacks for the road, we piled back into the vehicles and headed off to the first "real" stop of the day, Winslow Junction, home of the Southern Railroad of New Jersey. Although there wasn't any activity, there was still plenty of old and interesting equipment around the yard, including:
