Amtrak 19, the Crescent, heads for a somewhat warmer climate. The train is passing through a frigid Edison, NJ shortly after originating in an equally frigid New York City.

Conrail ME-2 passes through New Brunswick station with 16 cars (plus another engine) in tow. The lengthy local will exit the NEC a short distance from here at COUNTY interlocking where the crew wi... (more)

Southbound Q008 rolls past two waiting northbounds at Teaneck. The crew aboard CSXT 3274 has already been instructed by the NI dispatcher to pull up to CP 10 and is in the process of doing so. U... (more)

A WNYP job heads west out of Olean toward Meadville, PA behind a pair of C424s. The lead unit wears a fairly fresh coat of black and yellow paint. 435 was built as CP 4228 and worked for QGRY, M&E... (more)

A WNYP crew shuffles some power at the locomotive shop in Olean, NY. The M&E heritage of WNYP 431 is more than obvious, and its red paint has held up well enough over the past few decades. WNYP ... (more)

CDOT 229 shoves a late-afternoon eastbound from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central Terminal.

Train 1160 rolls past the former Erie Railroad BJ Tower in Rutherford, NJ with GP40PH-2 4204 leading eastbound and an ALP-45DP on the west end. NJT has been short of cab cars during the PTC conve... (more)

NS 20R passes the high car detector in South Plainfield, NJ on the Port Reading Secondary. 20R is a regular on this line, but on this day was one of many trains to slowly move east. This was the... (more)

Three GP38-2s mingle with a GEVO at NS' Enola Locomotive Shop. The two low-nose units have most likely been here many times in the past when they were employed by Penn Central and Conrail.

NS 211 was one of many trains to detour over the Port Reading Secondary on this day. The detours were necessitated by the derailment of CSX Q404 the day before on the Lehigh Line in Union, NJ. I... (more)

Conrail ME-2 heads to County interlocking from the National Can Lead in Edison with three cars sandwiched between a former Conrail GP38-2 and a former Western Maryland GP40-2. This 5-day per week... (more)

An RCRY crew is hard at work on a Sunday morning swapping loads and empties at a warehouse siding.

An Amtrak "Holiday Extra" heads for New York Penn station from Washington, DC with a borrowed set of MARC coaches in tow. Amtrak has a long-standing tradition of borrowing equipment fro... (more)

An Amtrak "Holiday Extra" heads for Washington, DC from New York Penn station with a borrowed set of NJ Transit Arrow IIIs. Amtrak has a long-standing tradition of borrowing equipment f... (more)

Conrail PR-32 heads back to Port Reading from Oak Island Yard with a healthy cut of transfer traffic in tow behind two SDs. The train is taking a detour via the Lehigh Line and Port Reading Second... (more)