Being given a break from what seemed like a unending stretch of rainy weather, NJ was finally given a Saturday morning in which the sun shone brightly. That enabled me to get trackside to see what was running along the Lehigh Line. From 9 AM until 10:30, I only saw four trains, two eastbounders and two westbounders. No foreign power but the still was some ex-CR units to be seen. The trains seen were as follows:
Lansdown Junction: NS 21M had NS 2758, NS 2778 and NS 7529 for power at 8:45.
NS 214 must have been holding for 21M at Pattenburg because it came east at 9:02. Motive power consisted of NS 9732, PRR 6769 (ex-CR 5512) and NS 9415. Note the solar panel that has been recently installed in the accompanying scene.
Heading down to Three Bridges, I was fortunate to catch NS 22V at 9:50. Its leader was PRR 8335 (ex-CR 6086) and NS 8372.
My final train for today was NS 213 with NS 9839 and NS 9157 for power.
At both of my locations, there was also piles of ballast that had been recently placed there off to the side. Perhaps for more LEHL MOW to be done in the near future?