US Navy Earle Railroad

Saw the train today,left the pier about 10 after 4 with the same power. I have a question that hopefully someone on here can answer I've noticed that every time I've seen the train and it's had a VO1000M on it,it has never been MU'ed to another VO1000M only an SW1200 or their SW900M, anyone know why they do this?

The train crossed Sleepy Hollow rd at about 4 in the afternoon today with VO1000M 65-00367 #1,SW1200 65-00630 #4 and 12 boxcars,it was moving at a good clip too!

About how often do trains run on this line?

Whenever a ship is docked to the pier and on rare occasions light engine moves,but it always seems to pick up in the summer and I usually hear or see the train coming in from the pier around 3pm on weekdays.

NJTArrow2 wrote:Whenever a ship is docked to the pier and on rare occasions light engine moves,but it always seems to pick up in the summer and I usually hear or see the train coming in from the pier around 3pm on weekdays.

Thanks, I remembered last year I was railfanning in Middletown and heard a train at around 3-4 PM.

NJT4115 wrote:

NJTArrow2 wrote:Whenever a ship is docked to the pier and on rare occasions light engine moves,but it always seems to pick up in the summer and I usually hear or see the train coming in from the pier around 3pm on weekdays.

Thanks, I remembered last year I was railfanning in Middletown and heard a train at around 3-4 PM.

Welcome,there hasn't been anything over the line in thed last few weeks now.

NJTArrow2 wrote:

NJT4115 wrote:

NJTArrow2 wrote:Whenever a ship is docked to the pier and on rare occasions light engine moves,but it always seems to pick up in the summer and I usually hear or see the train coming in from the pier around 3pm on weekdays.

Thanks, I remembered last year I was railfanning in Middletown and heard a train at around 3-4 PM.

Welcome,there hasn't been anything over the line in thed last few weeks now.

Has anything come around since June?

Going over the Route 18 bridge, you can see the yard off to the south. If you see two headlights, they are tied down. One or no headlights, they are off working somewhere on the depot. They don't just run to the pier.

Just heard what sounded like a P3 horn near my house on eagle oaks, I'm going to guess Earle is running down by Collingswood to drop something off for the next time a train comes down the southern.

southern sec. kid wrote:Just heard what sounded like a P3 horn near my house on eagle oaks, I'm going to guess Earle is running down by Collingswood to drop something off for the next time a train comes down the southern.

Earle goes to Collingswood?

The Collingswood Auction in Farmingdale/wall there's a connection down there that connects earls tracks to the Southern Secondary

Are these trains operated by civilians or people who serve(d) in the Navy?

NJT4115 wrote:Are these trains operated by civilians or people who serve(d) in the Navy?

They are operated by those that are hired by the Dept. of Defense.

OportRailfan wrote:

NJT4115 wrote:Are these trains operated by civilians or people who serve(d) in the Navy?

They are operated by those that are hired by the Dept. of Defense.

Darn, I wanted to drive these trains someday
Guess I'll wait for the next excursion in about nine years (Unless 9/11 cancelled it forever)

NJT4115 wrote:

OportRailfan wrote:

NJT4115 wrote:Are these trains operated by civilians or people who serve(d) in the Navy?

They are operated by those that are hired by the Dept. of Defense.

Darn, I wanted to drive these trains someday
Guess I'll wait for the next excursion in about nine years (Unless 9/11 cancelled it forever)

So they are operated by civilians, not military, personnel who are DOD employees.