Just because there aren't any snow pictures coming out of New Jersey, doesn't mean it's not cold! Evident in this shot as SA31 crosses a mostly frozen Lake Manalapan.

SA31 begins its journey down NJT trackage at RARE passing the new fountain outside the recently completed YMCA.

With only a few minutes of sunlight left on a hot July evening, CSXT 4423 and 7 cars emerge from the woods and cross Lake Manalapan on the return trip from Freehold to Browns Yard. The crew will t... (more)

Norfolk Southern GP38-2 5282 is stopped on the Church Running Track while the conductor walks back from closing the switch from NJT's North Jersey Coast Line at the north end of the South Amboy st... (more)

SA31 passes the most famous structure along any of the Central NJ Conrail lines, the Helme Snuff Mill. While the current recession has taken its toll in unfortunate ways, loss of jobs, lack of tra... (more)

CSXT 4431 was originally built as CR 3356 and is fittingly working today's Conrail local out of Browns Yard albeit in a darker shade of blue.

Conrail blue is reflected in a trackside pond caused by heavy rainfall as NS 5277 slowly approaches Asbury Avenue on the former Central Railroad of New Jersey mainline.

CSXT GP40-2 4425 was sent out of Browns Yard this afternoon as a light engine movement, seen here kicking up snow as it passes the abandoned snuff mill in Helmetta.

Other than the NS number it could be 1999 in downtown Freehold once again. After dropping off two tanks at Honeywell, a light NS 5311 pauses on the Monmouth Avenue crossing to pick up the conducto... (more)

On the first day of September, CSXT 2798 sits quietly at Reed & Perrine in early morning light. SA31 usually works this portion of the line in the mid to late afternoon which never allows a shot f... (more)

Spring is in the air and the trees are beginning to bloom on this cool April afternoon as former Conrail GP38-2 5277 splits a tree farm and a residential development as it crosses Highbridge Road ... (more)

I noticed something odd along the shore of Lake Manalapan last summer, the plants and flowers blooming in late July and early August. The plants add a touch of color well after the spring bloom ha... (more)

After clearing the fallen tree in just a few minutes, the hirail truck heads back to Schoolhouse Rd. to allow SA31 to conti... (more)

A lengthy SA31 crosses Lake Manalapan which has risen close to 'flood stage' thanks to the storms over the weekend which were dumping close to 2" of rain per hour.

A round of bad storms over the weekend brought down yet another tree just west of MP 8 on the Freehold Industrial in... (more)