Friday, February 08, 2013

What once was, is no more

(Train sightings on 2-3-13.)

Standing on the concrete platform of what was once the LVRR's station in Manville (NJ), it is 1:30 on February 4th as NS H76 is seen heading down the LEHL's Royce Running Track coupled up to "GOFCs"- Garbage on Flat Cars. Passing over Manville's Main Street underpass, this area was once a beehive of railroad activity. Partially obscured by the NS 8009 and NS 9413 can be seen the remnants of a ROW that once was a stretch of four tracks that serviced such area companies as Johns-Manville and American Cyanamid, known locally as Calco.