Sunday, April 01, 2007

Before the clouds rolled in...

(Train sightings on 3/24/07)

managed to get trackside along the Lehigh Line in Manville (NJ) and Three Bridges on this Saturday (3/24). Here is what I saw during that time.

8:30-NS 23M @ Manville had NS 7114 (GP60) and NS 3528 (B32-8) for power. This very long intermodal seemed to go on forever. By my time estimation, it would take around four minutes to pass completely by.

8:45-NS 21M @ Manville would have NS 9519 (C40-9W), NS 6687 (SD60) and NS 6780 (SD60M) providing the power. This one could also be categorized as another long intermodal.

10:00-falling into the seen but unknown symbol category was a eastbound intermodal, possibly NS 214, that passed through Manville. Power was three NS diesels.

10:10-NS 64R @ Manville was finally given permission to head east over the Royce Runner to Port Reading Junction. Behind NS 9303 and NS 8912, two C40-9Ws, was a "Southern" boxcar followed by seventy-nine tank cars containing ethanol and then another "Southern" boxcar.



1:50-NS 64J @ Three Bridges had NS 9460 (C40-9W), BNSF 994 (C44-9W), PRR 3018 (GP40-2, ex-CR 3310) and NS 7600 (ES40DC) bringing back those empty garbage containers.



3:00-NS 24V @ Flemington Jct was still waiting on the siding for a possible recrew. It called a stop at CP 51 a little after 1 PM and was still waiting when I departed. Power was PRR 8442 (C40-8W, ex-CR 743) and BNSF 7616 (ES44DC).