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CSX 5443 EAST BOUND BROOK NJ
On sweltering day in this August , I was able to make some time to get trackside at Bound Brook for a few hours .
CSX 5443 heads east towards Oak Island and the River Line with Selkirk bound traffic.
Prior to Conrail , the B&O controlled CNJ-Reading combination utilized this route to complete with Penn Central. The WM ,B&O, and RDG routed traffic to and from Philadelphia and Hagerstown into the NYC market via a diamond crossing the LV and joining the CNJ mainline.
Conrail reconfigured the area ,as the CNJ mainline was eventually sold off to NJT and utilized the route as a way around the former PRR northeast corridor for traffic moving north and south .
Post CR split the line provides CSX direct access into the NJ market something they lacked in the CR years.
CP Bound Brook Lehigh Line/Port Reading Secondary CRSO
CSX 5443 EAST BOUND BROOK NJ
On sweltering day in this August , I was able to make some time to get trackside at Bound Brook for a few hours .
CSX 5443 heads east towards Oak Island and the River Line with Selkirk bound traffic.
Prior to Conrail , the B&O controlled CNJ-Reading combination utilized this route to complete with Penn Central. The WM ,B&O, and RDG routed traffic to and from Philadelphia and Hagerstown into the NYC market via a diamond crossing the LV and joining the CNJ mainline.
Conrail reconfigured the area ,as the CNJ mainline was eventually sold off to NJT and utilized the route as a way around the former PRR northeast corridor for traffic moving north and south .
Post CR split the line provides CSX direct access into the NJ market something they lacked in the CR years.
CP Bound Brook Lehigh Line/Port Reading Secondary CRSO