On this last day of February, taking advantage of the good (but cold) weather, I made a day trip to Jersey along the Lehigh Line. This was the first weekend after I returned from a two-week vacation in China to celebrate Chinese New Year. While still having some leftover jet lag, I figure spending some time trackside would help a bit.
I began the day at Three Bridges, NJ on the NS side of the Lehigh Line. Not much trains action between 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM but one train to point out was intermodal NS 21M with a Ferromex SD70ACe. I then headed five miles west to Flemington, NJ at Stanton Station Rd. Three trains passed within a half hour there before a long lull sets in (I believe I missed an empty tanker NS 67Z and may be intermodal NS 211).
Then I made my way back east past Manville and Bound Brook to Piscataway at the Prospect Ave crossing (my first time there), which is a very popular spot for many local railfans. Train action picked up a bit starting with mixed freight NS 33K with an RS3L ex-Conrail C40-8W leading the way followed by a rerouted empty tanker K485 with CEFX and Canadian Pacific. Later in the day Conrail local MA-80 slowly headed west with NS GP38-2 and CSX GP40-2 closely followed by autorack NS 15J with NS & CSX on the opposing track. The train to finish off the day was in my opinion quite a surprise, intermodal NS 25V led by the Penn Central heritage unit #1073. As you can hear in the video, as soon as the head end passed by, someone next to me got very excited!
Anyway, what I thought was going to be a rather slow day turned into a great day!
*Note: I'm really really NOT GOOD w/ train symbols. I try to get as many as I can through my scanner or asking other railfans around me (if any).*
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