Decided to spend some of Saturday trackside along NS's Lehigh Line near Hillsborough (NJ) to take advantage of some fine weather. First train I saw was NS 211 with NS 8817 (C40-9) leading and heading west near the Valley Road grade crossing with an intermodal consist that seemed to go on forever. A little while later the signal indicated a eastbound train would soon be coming so I decided to change my location to where the LEHL crosses over Route 206 on a bridge. A local newspaper article recently stated “Route 206 bypass to be done by 2020” dated August 22, 2017. “…the state Department of Transportation (DOT) has set aside money to begin the lengthy process of widening Route 206 to four lanes between Valley Road and Brown Avenue, where the four-lane stretch of highway south of the Raritan River currently ends. That project will replace the railroad bridge over Route 206, the primary roadblock that has delayed the widening project. Built in 1930 as part of a grade elimination project this concrete bridge is 148 feet long and fifty-nine wide. It will be interesting to see how rail traffic will be handled once demolition of the old bridge and construction on the new bridge starts. Seen crossing over that bridge is NS 20K-08 with NS 7602 and NS 8909 as the power consist.
