Taking off from Newark International Airport runway 4R or 4L will provide you with a view of Conrail's Oak Island Yard. Taken in 1995 this picture shows the locomotive facility with locomotives from Conrail, CSX, and Norfolk Southern. Note the turntable and engine house in the picture and also the short string of cabeese on the bottom left.
	Almost a month after rail service began to Bridgewater Resources, a Conrail GP38-2 drops does a little switching after dropping off some empty cars on February 16, 1999. These containers are loaded with waste products here and then shipped by rail to points west.
	Because of the frequent switching that is needed for unloading the cars, BRI is leasing Belvidere & deleware River(a Black River & Western subsidiary) GP9 #780. The unit is a former Amtrak MOW unit.
	After doing a short amount of switching, WPAL-10 speeds back to Allentown in the early afternoon hours of October 12, 1997.
	Conrail NSSE rolls through CP Bound Brook in the summer of 97 as MA-10 featuring a GP38-2 slowly creeps up the end of the siding.
	Heading towards Trenton, NJ, a string of NJ Transit Arrow III MU cars are easing their way into Metuchen station on the Northeast Corridor in the afternoon of February 16, 1999.
	Shortly after the NJ Transit train, an Amtrak Metroliner soared by with an AEM-7 electric on the point. The locomotive features the new Northeast Direct style paint.
	Conrail SECS eases its way onto the Trenton Line with the vivid fall colors providing a stunning brackdrop on October 12, 1997. Soon, all Trenton Line trains will feature this type of motive power following the split up of Conrail.
	Train ALSE seems to provide some of the most interesting motive power on the Lehigh Line, from foreign power to high horsepower Conrail units. On an October 1998 day, Conrail ALSE featured a pair of SD80MACs on the train providing a bit of excitement.
	Conrail local WPAL-10 runs from Allentown, PA to Manville,NJ and back typically with a set of GP38-2s or GP40-2's or other smaller four axle power, but on February 16, 1999 AL-10 featured an SD70 followed by a C40-8W providing plenty of power to the 30 or so cars.
	After switching some industries east of Manville, NJ, Conrail local WPMA-10 is returning to Manville Yard with a string of cars in tow on a mild February 20, 1997. The train is approaching the passing siding at Bound Brook with TV-174 waiting to pass it.
	Don't call the Bound Brook fire department, its just an eastbound mail train featuring a C40-8W displaying a plume of black exhaust. The former Lehigh Valley truss bridge frames this scene late in the summer of 97.
	In his hi-rail pickup, Conrail Foreman Jackson waits patiently to inspect the Lehigh Line as an eastbound mixed freight passes CP Port Reading Junction in the morning hours February 16, 1999.
	NJ Transit F40PH 4124 accererates an eastbound train out of Red Bank station in the afternoon of February 18, 1997. The F40PH has since been converted to an F40PH-2CAT.
	Conrail WPAL-10 rolls through CP Port Reading Junction after doing a little switching at Manville Yard. The train is passing the namesake instrument box late in the summer of 1998.
	Train TV-12 approaches CP Port Reading Junction in the morning hours of October 12, 1997 with a C40-8W on the point. Note the large tree in the backround that was unfortnately chopped down for the construction of the BRI siding. Compare it with newer pictures.
	On the Southern Secondary, Conrail local WPSA-31 nears the Sycamore Avenue grade crossing in Shrewsbury, NJ as it approaches Red Bank, NJ. The train will ride on NJT rails as far east as South Amboy where it will go on Conrail trackage for its final leg of the trip into Browns Yard.

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