New Jersey extremes. Main Line freight and Branch Line passenger trains!! 6/8/24
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2025
- We spend this gorgeous day observing all kinds of rail action in all kinds of locations. First we start the day with busy action at Piscataway observing a flurry of NS/CSX action on the Conrail Shared Assets Lehigh Line including a BNSF led crude oil train.
Midday, we shift our location to rural surroundings observing action on the bucolic NJT Gladstone Branch. This is so much like an interurban railroad as we see nearly 50 year old Arrow III mu’s rambling thru the countryside with their Westinghouse AA2 horns wailing. We cover the branch from the Millington High Bridge to the Gladstone terminal. This scenic line is a joy to railfan on this delightful day.
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U.S 202 goes everywhere, lol! I live near it, but take it long enough you could end up at most of the New Jersey Transit Lines, the Danbury Mall, the King of Prussia Mall and a lot of New England. Got to love 202!
Nice video, lots of great action! I did not know that is what the p before the mile meant. The Gladstone branch has great foliage and curves nearly everywhere along the line.
44:50 I recall a fairly senior conductor on one of the early Jersey Ave trains who had such a shift. As I understand it, he'd work his way eastbound to NYP then go over to this fulltime job in real estate and then later in the day he'd work a westbound train home. Not sure how true this story is but, not a bad hustle if I say so myself. LOL!
That’s actually plausible.
We have some NJT bus operators who do the same thing and have for years.
@@Jeff-uj8xi I have a financial services colleague who did that for years: run an Academy bus up Route 9 (Howell-PABT) park it, come into the office then drive the route home. …almost talked me into doing it. 😂😂
Great video, wonderful mix of freight/ passenger service…. Thank you
This video has some great shots and audio!!
Thanks so much!
@@3985uprr of course, and the work you put in to travel and document all this stuff is invaluable to the community 👏
Awesome video!! Lots of freight action and passenger action. The Gladstone branch is a delight. A true interurban line.
Thanks Tim. 💚👌👍
Thank you Timmy! This was simply "blissful" railfan watching at its best! Especially since this is my "historic neighborhood" to which my love for trains developed. Thank you for sharing! This is Peter; out!
Glad you enjoyed it!
💞💞Happy Summer and I enjoy watching NJ Transit video because I'm from New Jersey and I do take NJ Transit Rail most of the time💞💞..
Great video! Sounds like you are going back out to spend some time on Caltrain again soon. I was out there in late May. Burlingame is a great place to watch the evening commute rush, with about every third train stopping and crossings on both ends.
Also hope to spend time with Muni F Line as well as BART and other Muni operations.
@@3985uprr Riding the MUNI N Line out to Ocean Beach is on my list for my next visit. Might be a fun adventure for you! Looking forward to your videos from there.
Hi, I'm in the UK and I really enjoyed your video, thank you. I was especially interested in the Arrow III mu's since at first glance I thought, these are like Budd 'Silverliners' and it was a shock to discover that they were GEs, albeit I can't help feel that GE have based their design on 'Silverliners'.
The Branch-line is just one big Sylvan setting - beautiful.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice catches
Love the cows 🐄
Awesome video
Thanks Tim
My Filipino wife is a bit older than yours
Tim, it's only a matter time the GE Arrow III EMUs will be going bye bye for good when the Alstom Multilevel III EMUs start replacing them!!!
I’ve never been on the Gladstone branch. It’s quite bucolic. I’ll definitely check it out.
It’s the prettiest electric line in the United States. Some other electric lines have parts of it that are pretty but this is pretty on a grand scale.
@@3985uprrSadley these arrow EMU's will be replaced soon by alstoms adessia EMU's that will start delivery very soon
Nice Video Man!
Happy Sunday😊
prospect is a great spot but some of the foamers there are unbearable (not the ones you met luckily). also the one time you go to the gladstone branch I’m not in town, oh well. it’s quite literally my daily commute when school is in session. also if you ever wanted to ride the gladstone branch again, take train 430 on a thursday or friday. engineer greg is a longtime railroader and he’s pretty friendly. gladstone branch runs are typically reserved for some of the most senior crew members. the 430 crew has been on that rotation for at least 2 years now.
I didn’t see too many foamers at Prospect. Just another senior citizen and a younger middle-age guy.
Yeah prospect is such a bad spot on the Lehigh line
Some foamers like to cause trouble by throwing rocks at the trains and blinding the crews with flashlights
And sometimes they get neglected a lot but I ain't apart of that...
Cool video though
@@NS1221Productions it’s a great spot for filming, I’ve been there countless times. thankfully the most annoying of the foamers prefers South Plainfield now so it should be better now.
@@nathanjiang100 Yeah that is true, but nobody ever does Bound Brook, I heard some foamers got banned from there
@@NS1221Productions no crossing at bound brook, that makes it objectively worse
Tim........News Flash !! Vintage, rebuilt 1947 PCC trolleys return to SEPTA Rt. 15 Girard Avenue in Philadelphia Sunday June 16th.
Yes. Finally!!!! I definitely want to railfan that line providing it’s not too hot out.
Love the GE MU's, although the horns on the Arrow III's are weak. Hoboken to Philly via Gladstone, that would have be one long run.
I wonder if it would have been electric?
Would seem the Gladstone branch needs more passing loops to accommodate more trains.
They have 4 to handle hourly service. Still, during rush hours they don’t run many opposing trains to the rush hour current of traffic.
Tim, I watched the 2024 Belmont Stakes Saturday, June 8 at Saratoga Race Course on TV. I've been up to Saratoga Springs years ago. It's gorgeous up there. I'm sure you've seen it.
Will the LIRR Belmont station be rebuilt? I rode and filmed on color movies years ago of LIRR MP-54 trains at the Belmont station.
I don’t know what plans they have for that now
I’m sure you already know this but those Arrow IIIs are soon to be replaced by the new MultiLevel IIIs (which will also be EMUs). Not sure what they’ll do about the Princeton Branch though since that only runs with two cars max and it seems the new cars will run in a set of three cars minimum
I look forward to the arrival of our new Multi-Level electric Arrow MU cars. I'm suggesting that we keep a handful of the old Arrow III MU cars for the Princeton Dinky and keep some in dead storage at the MMC as spares. There's plenty of room at the MMC and in Morrisville.
What type of voltage does the northeast corridor run on? And my second question would be does all trains out of Hoboken run off different voltage than the northeast
Corridor?
12.5 kV and 25 kV on ne corridor. When the electrification out of Hoboken was modernized in the 80s, it was upgraded to 25 kV and they kept it that way.
@3985uprr thank you for your information I was eleven years old when they changed the voltage I was lucky to rid the old Eire Lackwana MU'S .
11k in daylight lucky you