Getting The Dirt
During the fall of 1994 and spring of 1995, the state of New Jersey hired Conrail to haul dirt from Wayne, NJ, where a man made swamp was being created, to Liberty State Park, where a water buffer/golf course was to be created. I287 was completed in 1993 and took up swamp space that the DEC and environmentalist wanted replaced. Creating a swamp off the Pompton River in Wayne not only made the DEC happy, but provided relief from the floods that plague Wayne on a regular basis.
Five nights a week the train ran from Conrail Jersey City's Croxton yard and then to the railfans delight, it ran Sundays in daylight. I made my way to the Jersey suburbs to catch the operation of freight on the DL&W's old Boonton Line of New Jersey Transit. Such trains have been absent from the line for many years, so this was quite the northeast attraction while it lasted.
Here we see three GE C39-8's, 6008, 6009, and 6010 up front, with another on the rear as a helper rounding the big curve at Walnut Street station in Montclair, NJ with 70 empty ore jennies to fill up with the dirt.
Getting The Dirt
During the fall of 1994 and spring of 1995, the state of New Jersey hired Conrail to haul dirt from Wayne, NJ, where a man made swamp was being created, to Liberty State Park, where a water buffer/golf course was to be created. I287 was completed in 1993 and took up swamp space that the DEC and environmentalist wanted replaced. Creating a swamp off the Pompton River in Wayne not only made the DEC happy, but provided relief from the floods that plague Wayne on a regular basis.
Five nights a week the train ran from Conrail Jersey City's Croxton yard and then to the railfans delight, it ran Sundays in daylight. I made my way to the Jersey suburbs to catch the operation of freight on the DL&W's old Boonton Line of New Jersey Transit. Such trains have been absent from the line for many years, so this was quite the northeast attraction while it lasted.
Here we see three GE C39-8's, 6008, 6009, and 6010 up front, with another on the rear as a helper rounding the big curve at Walnut Street station in Montclair, NJ with 70 empty ore jennies to fill up with the dirt.