A loaded ballast train idles in "Hawthorne Yard" adjacent to NJ Transit's Main Line. The bridge in the background carries the NYS&W main over NJ Transit at this location, and a physical... (more)

"Fighting 45 thru the Thorn"

NYSW 3800, pulls the 2017 Toys For Tots train into Hawthorne, NJ for their second stop of the day. At the end of the day, 17,000 toys were collected

Snoot on Point

An unusual daylight SU-100 blasts through Hawthorne fronted by the railroads last tunnel motor on a rain soaked Friday morning. The distinct "snoot" nose of NYSW... (more)

SU-99 throttles up through Hawthorne as it begins its long climb to the summit at Stockholm.

NYSW 3806 is on SU-99 at Hawthorne, NJ 6/22/2015

"Eastbound through Hawthorne"

An early morning train could be heard blowing for the crossings through town. Eager to see what this was I went trackside to find the Sparta job r... (more)

"Speeders Gather at Hawthorne"

On a dreary Spring day, the NARCOA group hosted a speeder run on the NYS&W Southern Division from Sparta to Hawthorne. The run to Haw... (more)

"Detour on the Susquehanna"

On a beautiful Spring day CSX Q004 is seen detouring down the NYS&W with two GE's for power. After months of shooting trains with nothing but barr... (more)

"Evening Eastbound through Hawthorne"

Due to heavy snowfall the previous day, the NYS&W dispatched a plow extra consisting of two light engines to clear crossings on the Southern... (more)

"Breaking the Morning Peace"

For the second time in just over a week, SU-100 made a daylight appearance on the NYS&W Southern Division. While this train didn't run nearly as late... (more)

"Thumbs Up"

The engineer on WSX poses for a photo as they make their way through Hawthrone en-route to their base of operations in Ridgefield Park, NJ.

New York Central observation car Hickory Creek brings up the rear of the Toys for Tots train at NYS&W's Hawthorne Station. The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Toys for Tots train, made stops on the NYS... (more)

DETOUR. For the second time in a little over a month, CSX was forced to detour some of its hottest trains over the Susquehanna, this time thanks to a derailment a few miles west of Fonda, N... (more)

With crossing signal work taking place in the area this westbound manifest freight led by 3810 and two other SD60s crawls through the center of Hawthorne in the late afternoon.