AceMacSD wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 8:38 am
That's right the caboose is being repainted. Last I'd heard, the group's trying to get some CR stencils for it.
Back to the NEC freight, I hadn't run out their since before the split but there’s a freight that comes out of Morrisville to work in Trenton. I think there may be a job that occasionally works nights to get onto the light rail but I'll have to ask my south Jersey guys.
Read here a lot but don't really post. Being in the Trenton area I figured I'd join the discussion. There is a job out of Morrisville that crosses the river on the NEC into Trenton and serves Diversified Steel on the Wye near I believe it is Fair? Interlocking. Not sure what symbol they run under or how often they run over there, it's a short trip just across the river and run thru Trenton Station onto the Wye where Diversified is.
Someone posted they hear horns at night on the NEC that sound like freight. Probably Amtraks ballast train. Not freight but Amtrak seems to have a yard between Trenton and Hamilton Station now where they keep their MOW equipment and a bunch of cars from the ballast train. Driving back home from a friends some nights when driving under the Trenton Delaware River Bridge after exiting Route 1 I will see the ballast train heading out. So between the yard in Hamilton, Adams, and the other MOW base in Morrisville, as well as the freight that occasionally serves Diversified Steel in Trenton(not often), the area probably stays pretty busy at night. EDIT: just saw ACEMAC post about the Amtrak Stone trains as well.