Sunday, February 18, 2007

A C40-9W kind of day along the Lehigh Line...

(Train sightings on 2/10/07)

Saturday morning's sightings along the Lehigh Line started out at Flemington (NJ) Junction (CP 51) with NS 20K coming through around 8 AM. Power was two C40-9Ws, NS 9779 and NS 9129.

Once 20K was clear, NS 212 would come off the siding and head east. Motive power for 212 would be three GP60s, NS 7123, NS 7116, NS 7119, along with B32-8 NS 3559.



Next it was down to Manville where NS 21M was running a little later than usual. NS 9332 (C40-9W), NS 9130 (C40-9W) and NS 2775 (SD70M-2) would bring 21M through Manville around 9:10.

CSX's Q300 would then head east with HLCX 7172 (SD40-2, ex BN 7172) and CSX 8196 (SD40-2) for power.



At 10 o'clock, CSX S439-10 would bring its train of mixed freight down the Trenton Line. CSX 8773 (SD60M, ex-CR 5543) and CSX 8744 (SD60I, ex-CR 5631)was the power.

NS 24V would finally roll through with two C40-9Ws, NS 9233 and NS 9399, for power around 11 o'clock. It would have a rolling meet with a westbound NS train with three C40-9Ws, NS 8991, NS 9024 and NS 9754, for power. I will speculate this train's symbol might have been NS 213 with some autoracks and TOFCs.

Scheduled to roll down the Lehigh Line but not seen until later was NS 24V and NS 18G. They would come through Neshanic around 11:45. Power was not seen.

The final power tally would be nine C40-9Ws, two SD60s, two SD40-2s, three GP60s, one B32-8 and one SD70M-2. All in all, not a bad day to be trackside.