New Jersey at Night

I’m down in New Jersey again for a couple days with work.  And as I have done before, the camera bag came along for the ride.  But this time, the Lumedyne setup made its way into the bag.  After I checked into the hotel, and got dinner, I went out looking for something to shoot.  After striking out at a couple spots, I headed for a location where I knew there would be something – at least a GG-1 and a couple F units.  When I got there, I got a little surprise…

After I got dinner tonight, I headed out looking for something to shoot after dark.   So I headed for Manville to see if I could catch any NS action.  After driving around a bit, I came across nothing.  So I headed a bit west to Neshantic Station.  Again, nothing.  After looking at the maps, I decided I’d head to Lebanon, NJ, which is where the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey stores some of its equipment.

I got there, parked and started looking around.  Something odd caught my eye on the west side of the grade crossing – a pair of red marker lights.  What was that?  A quick walk over gave me my answer.

It was a restored observation car.  After doing a bit of research when I got back to the hotel, it’s a former New York Central 20th Centruy Limited obs car – specifically #43, the Hickory Creek.  Cool!  So I went around and shot some of the equipment there.  And without any further blabbing, here’s the goods.

Thanks for looking!
Tom