No S-L-E-E-P In Brooklyn. Early on the morning of Tuesday, June 11, 2024, NYNJ Rail is seen moving up 1st Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. It's clearly before 5:00 AM as there is a dark sky, there are no cars in the street and the lights are just coming on at "Pete's Brooklyn Eats". KLWX 253 (MK TE-47-4E, ex-MRS 253, S4m, née MRS 208, S2, Alco) leads Knoxville Locomotive Works built NYNJ 5101 (KLW SE10B) up 1st Avenue towards one of the handful of assignments that cause NYNJ Rail to run in the street, the only active stretch of non-protected or separated mid-street running in New York City. The KLWX 253 has been on an extended assignment on the New York City side of the operation and is normally the spare power kept on the New Jersey side of New York Harbor.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
