South Jersey

This evening (7/26) saw WPCA-20 on its return trip to Camden, waiting out an NJ Transit train at CP JORDAN. This junction is where the Hainesport Industrial Track and Atlantic City Line converge at about the Park Ave grade crossing in Pennsauken.

No sooner did I arrive and scout a location, did Atlantic City Line train #4634 round the curve at speed, bound for Philadelphia....

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=5165576


Ben

The Norfolk Southern Railroad Heritage Unit was spotted this afternoon (8/4) coming out of Pavonia Yard as a DPU on NS 39G.

DPUs are fairly uncommon for this area. But since the railroad has been combining trains lately (NS 60N (loaded steel slabs) & NS 39G (empty manifest) in today's case), trains are becoming increasingly longer and heavier. Today's 39G was just shy of 100 cars.

Anyway, here are a pair of shots of the Heritage Unit, NS #8114:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=5169792

Paired up with NS #7535:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=5169752


Ben

Let's hope 39G is the rear portion.

Friday's 39G had three engines pulling and two dpu between cars 39 and 40 of the 88-car train.
Fallen flag Southern Railway covered hopper was in the consist.

DPU's in South Jersey. Who would have thunk it!?

9/4/2019

WPCA51 ran the loaded 780 coal train from Beesley's Point today. This is the second train exporting coal from the closed plant and could possibly be one of the last times coal will ever be moved on the line again.

Oaklyn-
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=5185450

9/10/2019

RAPU 1, a Chessie rail train, came in three days ago with six lengths of rail. Two were dropped on the port track at Paulsboro and two on the Delair Branch. Today, the other two lengths were dropped on the Hatch Industrial Track in Pennsauken. Afterward, the train shoved back and down the New Leg of Wye, through CP Hatch and to Cove Road. After letting a few MofW guys off, they got permission to head out to RG in Philly.

CSX 8116 was used for power-
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=5188771

Passing the diamond at Hatch-
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=5188772

RAPU 1's CSX caboose-
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=5188773

RAPU 1 threader machine-
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=5188776

All of the rail gons (and one flat) had a Chessie cat logo-
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=5188779
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=5188785

Conrail YPCA15 building NS 39G at 36th Street Wednesday morning.
Empty coal train for Beesley's Point NS 781 arrived 36th Street at 9:30.

With its new owner in place, the Winchester and Western RR maintains its lines in South Jersey. Any of the SJ posters know who it’s major shippers are?
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/ ... cquisition

On the point of 9/18's WPCA-20 was CSX GP40-2 #6213 (ex Western Maryland, built in 1978) & NS GP38-2 #5287 (ex Penn Central, built in 1973). Seen here head for Hainesport, passing the PRR built Maple Shade station:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=5193174


Ben

9/19/2019
Here is the last coal train that will ever run on the Beesleys, at the dismal remains of the once very busy Williamstown Jct.-

http://manatree.rrpicturearchives.net/s ... id=5194173

http://manatree.rrpicturearchives.net/s ... id=5194180

http://manatree.rrpicturearchives.net/s ... id=5194182

Collings Ave.-
http://manatree.rrpicturearchives.net/s ... id=5194186

(I was having problems posting to this site last week.)

your link to photos is not working

ccutler wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2019 7:20 am your link to photos is not working

Try these:
http://manatree.rrpicturearchives.net/s ... id=5194173
http://manatree.rrpicturearchives.net/s ... id=5194180
http://manatree.rrpicturearchives.net/s ... id=5194182
http://manatree.rrpicturearchives.net/s ... id=5194186

Thank you!

Conrail CA-07 replaced CSXT 759.