Tuesday, June 24, 2014

It was worth waking up early...

(Train sightings on 6-22-14.)

...to be trackside for this colorful lashup on Sunday morning along CSX's Trenton Line (TL) in Manville, NJ. Via the Internet, I saw where there was a train of empty tank cars coming north on the TL making their way back to the midwest to transport another load of oil east. What made this train unique was the motive power. CREX 1214 (GE ES44AC) and CREX 6005 (EMD SD60; ex-SOO 6005) made for a very colorful duo as it passed by my location at TL MP 56. From a historical prespective, this was where Manville's former Reading station was once located. During the Conrail era, this track location was referred to as CP WESTON.