{"id":520,"date":"2009-03-25T19:08:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T23:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/25\/day-and-night-in-northern-jersey-njt-ns-csx-me-and-whippany-rr-museum\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T19:08:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T23:08:43","slug":"day-and-night-in-northern-jersey-njt-ns-csx-me-and-whippany-rr-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/day-and-night-in-northern-jersey-njt-ns-csx-me-and-whippany-rr-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Day and Night in northern Jersey – NJT, NS, CSX, M&E and Whippany RR Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

After work yesterday, I decided to swing by the Bound Brook New Jersey Transit station to see what I could see.\u00a0 Well, I knew that I’d at the very least see some NJ Transit action, but the question was, would I get any freight?\u00a0 Boy was I unprepared for the answer to that one.\u00a0 And after that, I headed north to Morristown to watch a slideshow at the Tri-State Railway Historical Society<\/a> meeting, which was of course followed by some night shooting at the Morristown & Erie Railroad<\/a> as well as the Whippany Railway Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As I left the office, I was again greeted with cloudless skies.\u00a0 Not wanting to pass this up, and wanting to catch more than one train, I opted to head for the NJ Transit Bound Brook station.\u00a0 At the very least, I’ll get a parade of NJT commuter runs in and out of the greater New York City area.\u00a0 And if I was lucky, I might catch one or two freight moves on the Conrail Shared Assets Lehigh Line.<\/p>\n

When I finally got to the Bound Brook station parking lot, I could hear a local switching somewhere nearby.\u00a0 OK, I’d have at least one freight – that works for me.\u00a0 So I parked, grabbed my gear, fed the meter and headed out to the southern platforms of the station.\u00a0 When I got there, looking to the east I found a local switching a customer.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8673]\n

After a little while, they finished up and began heading west.\u00a0 Just then, a westbound NJT commuter came into view.\u00a0 So of course, I got a shot of both of them.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8672]\n

Then a closer shot of the commuter train<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8671]\n

With that done, I turned my attention back to the local, getting a couple of them approaching, then slowly stopping clear of the CP-BOUND BROOK interlocking, where they had a red signal.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8670] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8669] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8668]\n

Now that they were sitting tight at the signal, I headed over to the track 1 platform to get a shot of an eastbound NJT pulling out of the station.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8667]\n

Then a little different angle of the freight at the interlocking<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8666]\n

Not long after that, he got the signal to proceed west.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8665]\n

Cool, one freight in the bag.\u00a0 And with the lack of action on the Lehigh Line, I took the opportunity to get a few shots of the next NJT eastbound through the station.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8664] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8663] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8662]\n

With that done, I was chatting with a couple local railfans at the station.\u00a0 During that chat, we saw a headlight approaching from the west on the Lehigh Line.\u00a0 Cool, another freight!<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8661]\n

As it turns out, this was a unit empty trash train bound for Staten Island, heading down the Port Reading Secondary.\u00a0 But that wasn’t it, just then my scanner picked up the detector to the east – a westbound was also in the picture!<\/p>\n

A few minutes later, a CSX stack train came into view to the east.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8660]\n

And stopped at the red signal at CP-BOUND BROOK<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8659]\n

Once stopped, the conductor got off to get a snack at the store near the station<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8658]\n

And the engineer also climbed down to stretch his legs<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8657]\n

But that wasn’t the interesting thing – what was interesting was why they stopped both trains there.\u00a0 That could mean one of two things – one was coming east behind the trash train, or up the Port Reading Secondary.\u00a0 A few minutes later, we got our answer – a general freight ran around the trash train, and crossed over in the interlocking to pass the stack train.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8656] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8655] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8654] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8653]\n

Then it was back to the waiting game.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8652]\n

But only for a few minutes.\u00a0 In that time, I got another NJT coming into the station.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8651]\n

Then the stack train pulled out, heading west.\u00a0 So what do I do?\u00a0 Of course, I get a shot with the two other railfans there!<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8650]\n

After that, a going away shot of the NJT westbound heading into the sunset<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8649]\n

Then back to the idle time.\u00a0 Don’t forget that the trash train is still <\/em>sitting at the western approach to CP-BOUND BROOK.<\/p>\n

A little while later, another NJT westbound pulled into the station<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8648]\n

And while shooting that, something to the east caught my eye – a headlight!\u00a0 It was a pair of CSX widecabs running light.\u00a0 A quick look at the interlocking, and they had an approach signal, so they were riding right through.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8647] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8646] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8645]\n

Well, it’s been quite the parade so far!\u00a0 Never imagined there would be this much action – I’m not complaining!<\/p>\n

To continue, the scanner picked up the detector to the east again – sounds like another westbound was coming at us.\u00a0 A few minutes later that was confirmed, when an NS local rounded the bend to the east.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8644] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8643]\n

And this time, he had a stop signal at the interlocking, so he came to a stop in front of us.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8642] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8641]\n

Not long after that, an NS job pulled through the interlocking, passing the local.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8640] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8639]\n

And then back to the waiting game.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8638]\n

So if this guy ran around the trash train, and now these two were still sitting here, that meant that something was probably coming up the Port Reading Secondary.\u00a0 A little while later we got an answer as we heard squealing flanges on the other side of the local.\u00a0 A unit ethanol train (my guess would be empty since there was one unit on it) pulled off of the secondary and onto the mainline at Bound Brook<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8637] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8636]\n

Finally, the trash train pulled through the interlocking and onto the Port Reading Secondary.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8635]\n

Leaving clear tracks for the local to head west<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8634] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8633]\n

Not long after that, yet another NJT pulled into the station, so as a parting shot, I got that guy<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8632]\n

So that means I caught 14 trains in the span of two hours.\u00a0 Not too bad at all!<\/p>\n

But I ain’t done yet!<\/p>\n

After that, I headed north to Morristown.\u00a0 Like I mentioned, to kill some time I attended the Tri-State Railway Historical Society’s meeting, which featured a slideshow by Bob Goin – Trackside around the Garden State.\u00a0 A very enjoyable show of material from the 1950s to the 1970s – nice variety of stuff, including EL, NYSW, NJT, Metro North, CNJ and more.\u00a0 But after that, I headed to a couple other places after dark.\u00a0 First stop was the Morristown & Erie Railroad’s shops in Morristown.<\/p>\n

I took a couple telephoto shots of the stuff outside the M&E shops.\u00a0 A couple things of note – there’s a former Amtrak Vermonter baggage car there, along with an-ex New Haven (in Amtrak colors) EMD FL-9 there.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8631] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8630] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8629] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8628]\n

With that in the bag, I headed a bit further north and east to the Whippany Railway Museum to get a few shots of some of their equipment.\u00a0 Note to self – I need to visit this place when it’s open, only thing is I think they’re only open on Sundays (I’m usually in NJ during the week).\u00a0 Anyways, here’s the shots I got at the museum.<\/p>\n[cpg_imagefixthumb:8627] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8626] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8625] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8624] [cpg_imagefixthumb:8623]\n

And that was it for the day.\u00a0 Got back to the hotel room by about 11pm, and stayed up until about 12:30am downloading and processing the images…<\/p>\n

Thanks for looking!
\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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