Over the Raritan River and through the woods along NJT’s Raritan Valley Line from Westfield to High Bridge was the route taken by the NRHS Jersey Central Chapter’s “Santa Train” took on December 11. Decent weather, at least for this Saturday, made chasing this train made lots of fun. Here are a few images from that chase…
Image 1- The Santa Train is seen passing beneath I-287 near Bound Brook on Saturday’s first run. Passengers are already on board from Raritan’s pickup at 8:30 and the next stop will be Westfield.
Image 2- Seen here passing through Whitehouse Station (MP44.2), NJT’s 4000 and 4013 (PL42-ACs) provided the motive power on these two trips. With NJT’s GP40s not used this year, one question some people were asking was “Where will the wreaths be hung?” This image answers that question
that the wreath were hung on the nose with care in hopes that Santa would soon be here…
Image 3-Crossing the North Branch Viaduct, the Santa train heads returns east on its first run of the day. It will stop at Raritan to let those passengers off before proceeding on to Westfield.
Image 4- It is a little after 2PM as the Santa Train makes its way west towards High Bridge. This image was taken from the Round Valley Access Road bridge (County Route 629) and concludes a rather enjoyable day for this photographer.
Hope you enjoyed these images…..