I never even noticed that until you pointed it out. This is 50 MPH mainline track that sees 12K foot long trains!
The lowly freight car, almost never gets any love or attention. Here is a tank car I got images of at URY in Provo UT 1999-ish, after we arrived with it on a DENPVO. After many years of service hauling LPG, it finishes it useful life in liquid anhideous ammonia fertilizer service. The CITX 35537 rust patches and all.
Whose railroad is this, anyways? CP train 445's power is cut away and backing to its train after making a cut. CP Portal Sub, Minot ND yard:
Cajon Pass, California. The Frisco “run-through” power on the ATSF was a pooling arrangement for Frisco Hotshot “QLA” (“Quanah Los Angeles”). The train originated in Tulsa, Oklahoma; the pooling started in 1961 and lasted until 1963. Chard L. Walker Photo, Steven Priest collection.
That's gotta be the hardest climbing those Fs have ever done! Super cool! I never knew about that run-thru power arrangement.
Just messin' around with black and white from a digital image. Taken 04/01/2017 at Ringoes, NJ on the Black River & Western Railroad.
From March 1984 in the Aldene area of Roselle Park, NJ, is the former CNJ main looking east toward Jersey City. That's the LV main on the bridge. Once a bustling multiple track mainline handling passenger and freight, the CNJ's main was left to rust in 1967 by the connection to the left of the picture, a ramp to the LV main. This was known as the Aldene Plan and it allowed the CNJ to end its costly terminal operations and ferry service between Jersey City and New York. With the connection, CNJ passenger trains were able to use LV and PRR track to reach Newark and with a change of trains, New York's Penn Station.
You're right @Sepp K . The red arrow shows where my camera was pointed and the red circle is the LV bridge. There's nothing left of the CNJ main beyond the bridge to the right. Happily though, the LV main is busy with NS stack trains.
Yes, it looks like an automobile junkyard occupies part of the old CNJ ROW that used to go to Elizabeth.
From 07/22/1976 at Raritan, NJ is a Conrail commuter train, looking very CNJ. CR is but four months old. Raritan is the end of commuter territory. When the new Aldene Plan route began, CNJ trains needed a way to reverse at Newark and return west to Raritan. The CNJ modified some coaches into control cars, so I'm not sure what was happening here with locomotives at each end.
