... and that came in the form of sunshine. One weather forecaster indicated the normal amount of rain for July in central NJ is about 4.62 inches. July's total rainfall amounted to 7.02 inches! Now you can understand why seeing sunshine and not gray clouds was soooo... nice on this Saturday morning. It also enabled me to spend some time trackside in Manville along the Lehigh Line. What follows is a report of what I saw:
NS 18G @ 8:40 with NS 9699 as its leader along with an unidentifed second NS unit bringing its general merchandise freight east on track 2.
NS 22V @ 8:50 with NS 9798 and NS 9946 with its colorful consist of COFCs.
NS 214 (time not recorded) had NS 2656, NS 2564 and NS 9449.
NS 212 (time once again not recorded) would have NS 9495, NS 2765 and NS 2637.
NS 11J- after holding at the waterworks for these four eastbounders, NS 9971 and NS 9821 was on the move west with its empty autoracks.
NS 21M @ 9:50 would have NS 9143 as its leader.