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Conrail shared assets local train SK-13 (doing leftover work from M-F job OI-14) is seen light engine westbound on the Waldo Running Track coming under Tonnelle Ave. They had just pulled a long cut of flats loaded with empty trash containers down toward end of track beneath Journal Square and have run around and are heading back toward the main. To the right are the PATH (Port Authority Trans Hudson) mainlines via the tunnels to Lower Manhattan.
The Waldo Running Track used to be a continuation of Conrails P&H (Passaic and Harsimus) Line. Prior to 1994 all north south trains to and from the River Line main passed this way and diverged north at CP WALDO (now gone). But now this trackage is just a dead end runaround that extends maybe a quarter mile behind me. It is used only by these locals that pull trash cars in here to run around and then shove back around past CSXT's South Kearney Yard and down the Central Avenue Industrial Track. Down at the end of that lead is the NJRC (New Jersey Rail Carriers) transfer point where containers of waste are loaded on to COFC flats for movement west on NS train 63V to Mingo Junction West Virginia for hand off to the Ohio Central railroad for final delivery to a land fill located off the old PRR Panhandle Line.
In days of old all of this was former Pennsylvania Railroad territory and until 1959 the PRR ran suburban trains to and from their Exchange Place station on trackage shared with the affiliated Hudson and Manhattan (today's PATH) thru here. The H&M opened the station here at Journal Square, then known as Summit Avenue in 1912 and the disused catenary poles and remains of the old electric infrastructure date from the PRR's 1930s electrification project. The weedgrown far tracks that the local occupies once led to PRR's Harsimus Cove freight terminals on the Jersey City waterfront.
If you'd like to read more here is a great story about operations in the North Jersey area during the Conrail era that explains some of the traffic patterns and routings I described: railfan.com/wiseguys-wayfreights-conrail-north-jersey/" rel="noreferrer nofollow
And here are some links to learn more about PATH:
www.panynj.gov/path/en/about/history.html
hoboken.pastperfectonline.com/archive/45CDC2F1-59A0-4758-...
Jersey City, New Jersey
Friday October 2, 2020
Here is another favorite from 2018 and the caption I wrote at the time.
Sometimes a bucket list photo opportunity drops right in your lap with absolutely zero effort.
As most of you know, I am a Rhode Islander by birth and the Providence and Worcester Railroad was my home road that I grew up with. In fact, the modern incarnation of the P&W was reborn only 4 years before I was and the P&W was always a sharp, proud, friendly little New England carrier. While now part of the G&W family, a few red and brown original units still roam the rails in the Ocean State. Their namesake city of Providence is another town that railroading has passed by.
While the Capital of Rhody is a very busy passenger stop on Amtrak's northeast corridor, it now sees no more than four freight trains on the average weekday. Most of the rail business in RI is generated by the port of Providence and the big Rhode Island Economic Development Business Park in Quonset Point / Davisville, RI.
In fact, in downtown Providence proper there is really only one old school customer located on legacy New Haven trackage.
The local paper, the Providence Journal Bulletin still takes boxcars of newsprint on a cool little industrial spur located off the Northeast Corridor (Amtrak Shoreline Main) just south (compass west) of the passenger station near the site of the old Providence Produce Mart (Merchants Cold Storage in NYNH&H days) off the the lead of the remains of old New Haven Yard 17.
But enough history, on to the story and photos.
I was driving home from a night of work on this past Monday morning when I saw P&W PR3 roll beside me on the Pawtucket Providence city line where the mainline parallels I95 at the site of the old Northup Avenue Yards.
The weather was cool, clear, and perfect for a New England fall day and it was still early (only a bit after 8 AM) so I figured if traffic would let me I would try to get ahead of them and park up on Federal Hill and grab a nicely lit going away shot of them at Atwells Interlocking.
As luck would have it they were held of the station for an Amtrak Regional and an MBTA local (freight trains with haz mat are not allowed in the tunnels at the station at the same time as any passenger trains are present per Amtrak rules) affording me enough time to fight traffic and get in position.
I got my shot and was ready to leave when I noticed them stop and then heard them talk to the Amtrak DS. The dispatcher asked them if they would be ok on track 10 in Cranston with their high wides. But then I did a double take and realize they just had tanks and gons, no high wides. This could only mean one thing....they were stopping to work the Journal and pick up the high Plate F boxcars!
I was in luck. I've wanted to shoot a train working this spur forever, and I got it with no planning, no advance knowledge, in perfect weather, on a work day, and without even having to cut into my sleep! Sometimes it just all comes together!
Oh, and original bought new P&W GP38s on their home road. Does it get any better....no, not around here it doesn't!
Anyway, now for the photos.
PR3 shoves out of the Journal lead and across Harris Ave into the remains of the old NH yard 17.
Providence, Rhode Island
Tuesday October 30, 2018
the other morning I was sitting on the rooftop and smoking. it was the first time in months to sit outside with no coat or jumper on, and the first time to welcome the sun in such tender way. I saw a bird sitting on the top of a birch, on the branch that was up high the most, and I wondered what it’d be like to sit where he sat and have this breath-taking view on the village. I wanted to take a photo of him, but he flew away as I had gotten my camera. so I just sat down again and watched the sky and saw my neighbour walking her dog down the road.
that was one of the most beautiful mornings I’d had in a long, long time.
"It's hard to remember we're alive for the first time.
It's hard to remember we're alive for the last time.
It's hard to remember to live before you die.
It's hard to remember that our lives are such a short time.
It's hard to remember what it takes such a short time.
It's hard to remember to live before you die.
It's hard to remember."
from the visual journal that I've been working on, started on '09 and now continued. Most of the images in the 2022 section come from a French children's book on zoology, "Pour les tout Petits,Lectures sur les Animaux."
I'm going through and posting some previous journal pages. Adding them in order so, no, you guys aren't confused. LOL
My kraft paper journal, its cover adorned with a muse and my favorite quote, is one of my favorite journals. I never did come up with anything for the bottom though I once thought of gluing in part of a map (tissue paper) or something. I love the contrast of black ink on kraft paper. I used Sharpie highlighters to add spot color. This is the original 'kraft paper muse'.
this is what happens if you bury your journal and then try to dry it out in the dryer after a heavy rain. (as my husband found ot this week.)
“Life is but a Weaving” (The Tapestry Poem) by Corrie ten Boom
My life is but a weaving
Between my God and me.
I cannot choose the colors
He weaveth steadily.
Oft’ times He weaveth sorrow;
And I in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper
And I the underside.
Not ’til the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly
Will God unroll the canvas
And reveal the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful
In the weaver’s skillful hand
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned
He knows, He loves, He cares;
Nothing this truth can dim.
He gives the very best to those
Who leave the choice to Him.
Corrie ten Boom
The Moon Journal is an altered atlas that now functions as my daily journal. It's big and I love it. More on my blog: caatjesartsystuff.blogspot.nl/2012/05/more-from-moon-jour...
I blogged about it at www.creativechaos.typepad.com This is the cover of my inspiration journal for my magazine pictures....
My first art journal page for 2011.
Blogged here:
dragonflydreamers.blogspot.com/2011/01/first-journal-page...
writing with graphite pencil
Zeichnung/Schrift mit Grafitstift.
"Bäume sind Gedichte, die die Erde in den Himmel schreibt." Khalil Gibran
My art journal for Kara's Life Story Class.
Blogged here: http://dearlydee.blogspot.com/2009/02/life-story-journal.html