July 2010. A northbound CSX intermodal train hammers east through South Plainfield, NJ on Track 1 of the "shared assets" portion of the ex-Conrail, nee Lehigh Valley main line. Two "ex-Con" SD60Ms, both painted in the latest colors of their new owner, lead the charge. Twenty years after Conrail made the short-sighted and stupid decision to rip up Track 1 between the Potter interlocking in Edison, NJ and Port Reading Junction in Manville, NJ, thereby creating a 10-mile bottleneck on its primary freight route into the Port of New York/New Jersey, its successors, CSX and Norfolk Southern, rebuilt it. A good deal of "left hand" running takes place on the "shared assets" portion of the ex-Lehigh Valley since Track 1 was rebuilt. My original digital capture, processed with ON1 software.
July 2010. A southbound CSX intermodal train hammers west through South Plainfield, NJ on Track 2 of the "shared assets" portion of the ex-Conrail, nee Lehigh Valley main line. ES40DC 911 and a sister lead the charge. Twenty years after Conrail made the short-sighted and stupid decision to rip up Track 1 between the Potter interlocking in Edison, NJ and Port Reading Junction in Manville, NJ, thereby creating a 10-mile bottleneck on its primary freight route into the Port of New York/New Jersey, its successors, CSX and Norfolk Southern, rebuilt it. A good deal of "left hand" running takes place on the "shared assets" portion of the ex-Lehigh Valley since Track 1 was rebuilt. My original digital capture, processed with ON1 software.
September 2010. A westbound CSX unit train of empty ethanol tank cars rumbles north across the Popolopen Creek trestle at Bear Mountain, NY on CSX's ex-Conrail, nee Penn Central, nee New York Central main line along the west shore of the Hudson River. ES40DC 5245 and "SD40-2" 8435 (a rebuilt/upgraded SD40 that was originally delivered to the B&O in May 1967) provide the power. My original digital capture, processed with ON1 software.
