Saturday, April 05, 2008

After NJ's rain had ceased...

(Train sightings on 3/9/08)

Sunday morning would find a couple of inches rain had thoroughly saturated NJ causing the Raritan River to overflow its banks. The dark brown grass in the foreground on the first two scenes is actually flood debris floating on the water. As for the trains that passed by my vantage point near Manville (NJ) on this very windy morning:

8:30 NS 20R-NS 9922 (C40-9W) and NS 2755 (SD70M-2).



8:30 Unknown local freight with NS 5382 (GP38-2, ex-CR 8257) and CSX 6115 (GP40-2, ex-B&O 4216) headed east with a cut of coil cars and one flat car loaded with steel beams.

8:45 NS 214-I am guessing that is what this intermodal might have been since it had a number of EMP containers. Motive power was three C40-9Ws, NS 9582, NS 9764 and NS 9111.

9:30 CSX 706-with the familiar green municipal waste containers had CSX 4817 (SD70MAC) and CSX 378 (AC44W) as motive power.


9:37 CSX MA2-had NS 5288 (GP38-2, ex-CR 8088) heading up a graffiti covered ACF center flow and five tank cars heading east.

9:45 NS 18G-had NS 9476 (C40-9W) as its leader along with two other unidentified NS units for this train of mixed freight.