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Winchester and Western NJ Division
Conrail
1994 Whippany Railway Festival
Cape May Seashore Lines
Winchester & Western GP9's #459 and #811 await the train crew one November
morning in 1998. The engines will be heading up the morning run on the C&M branch
to Dividing Creek, NJ. #459 will be leading southbound when leaving Bridgeton
Junction this morning.
Train C&M takes a break at U.S. Silica's Dividing Creek facility in November
of 1998. The train has 13 empty covered hoppers to be delivered here and at
Unimin's Haleyville facility, the terminus of the C&M branch.
End of the line at Haleyville, NJ. Here the Winchester & Western interchanges
hoppers with Unimin, parent company of the Winchester & Western. The primary freight
traffic on the W&W is sand for construction and glass making. There are several
glass factories in the area as well as sand mines. November 1998.
WPCA20 prepares to leave the Vineland Secondary Track at CP Brown entering the Beesleys Point Secondary Track. Located just north of the Morgan Blvd. interchange off I-76 in Camden, I wouldn’t recommend this spot to railfans for pictures because it is in an unfriendly neighborhood. Today, WPCA20 heads to the electrical generating plant outside of Ocean City, NJ with a mix of oil tankers and coal cars. August 1997.
WPCA20 passes an abadoned factory in Williamstown Junction, NJ headed to Beesleys Point. The train has a downhill run from here having just crested a 200’ vertical rise at Pine Hill in transit from Camden. The 75 car train has a mix of oil and coal for the generating plant outside Ocean City, NJ. August 1997.
Whose railroad is this anyway? By 1998, the beginning of the end of Conrail was drawing near as a pair of CSX SD50’s pass a Conrail work train parked on the siding at Milmay, NJ. In the months that followed, South Jersey became flooded with all sorts of foreign road power, including CN, BN and NS units. The work train was parked here was part of a track improvement program that upgraded track speeds along the line.
A pair of CSX SD50’s pass the ancient and honourable Weymouth Township, NJ municipal building in August of 1998 heading north along the Beesleys Point Secondary Track. The pair are bringing an empty CSX unit coal train back to the mines.
CSX meets Tuckahoe in this August 1998 view of Conrail WPCA20 dragging an empty coal train from Beesleys Point back to the mines. The train is just passing the former PRSL (nee, Reading Co.) station and switch tower. This division point marks the beginning of the Cape May Branch which is now operated by the Cape May Seashore Lines. Trackage is owned by NJDOT.
Conrail WPCA20 heads south with a fuel train on the Beesleys Point Secondary Track through Winslow Junction, NJ. Here presently Winslow Junction hosts Conrail, NJT and the Southern Railroad of NJ. The cars to the left are spotted for the SRNJ on the connecting track between NJT’s Atlantic City Rail Line and the Beesleys Point S. T.
”Quiet, you’ll scare the fish!” Despite posted signs discouraging tresspassers, the Cedar Swamp bridge in Petersburg, NJ is a hot spot for anglers and crabbers alike.
Located just west of the terminus of the Beesleys Point Secondary Track, the site was the scene of a derailment about 5 years prior where 8 tanker cars went into the swamp while a train was headed to the power plant. August 1998.
WPCA11 prepares to leave the Deepwater Interchange Track at Carney's Point, NJ. A pair of SD40-2 head up the train seen here in the fall of 1999.
Black River & Western #60, an Alco 2-8-0, smokes it up at the Whippany Railway
Festival, Whippany, NJ in 1994. Normally #60 can be found operating excursion
trains between Ringoes and Flemington, NJ.
Suzy Q #142, a Chinese built mikado, makes a nice companion for a weary fireman at the Whippany Railway Festival in 1994. The temperature hit 95 degrees farenheit that day making any steam railroaders job a difficult task. The New York, Susquehanna and Western routinely makes their prize steam engine available for open house events and excursions.
Cape May Seashore Lines Budd RDC-1 #407 at rest in Cape May, NJ in September of
1999. The former Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines engine is home again with all
but one of the surviving PRSL Budds. The Budds last operated in Cape May County,
NJ in the 1970's. As of December of 1998, trains are again operating into Cape May.
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Train C&M takes a break at U.S. Silica's Dividing Creek facility in November
of 1998. The train has 13 empty covered hoppers to be delivered here and at
Unimin's Haleyville facility, the terminus of the C&M branch.
End of the line at Haleyville, NJ. Here the Winchester & Western interchanges
hoppers with Unimin, parent company of the Winchester & Western. The primary freight
traffic on the W&W is sand for construction and glass making. There are several
glass factories in the area as well as sand mines. November 1998.
WPCA20 prepares to leave the Vineland Secondary Track at CP Brown entering the Beesleys Point Secondary Track. Located just north of the Morgan Blvd. interchange off I-76 in Camden, I wouldn’t recommend this spot to railfans for pictures because it is in an unfriendly neighborhood. Today, WPCA20 heads to the electrical generating plant outside of Ocean City, NJ with a mix of oil tankers and coal cars. August 1997.
WPCA20 passes an abadoned factory in Williamstown Junction, NJ headed to Beesleys Point. The train has a downhill run from here having just crested a 200’ vertical rise at Pine Hill in transit from Camden. The 75 car train has a mix of oil and coal for the generating plant outside Ocean City, NJ. August 1997.
Whose railroad is this anyway? By 1998, the beginning of the end of Conrail was drawing near as a pair of CSX SD50’s pass a Conrail work train parked on the siding at Milmay, NJ. In the months that followed, South Jersey became flooded with all sorts of foreign road power, including CN, BN and NS units. The work train was parked here was part of a track improvement program that upgraded track speeds along the line.
A pair of CSX SD50’s pass the ancient and honourable Weymouth Township, NJ municipal building in August of 1998 heading north along the Beesleys Point Secondary Track. The pair are bringing an empty CSX unit coal train back to the mines. 
CSX meets Tuckahoe in this August 1998 view of Conrail WPCA20 dragging an empty coal train from Beesleys Point back to the mines. The train is just passing the former PRSL (nee, Reading Co.) station and switch tower. This division point marks the beginning of the Cape May Branch which is now operated by the Cape May Seashore Lines. Trackage is owned by NJDOT.
Conrail WPCA20 heads south with a fuel train on the Beesleys Point Secondary Track through Winslow Junction, NJ. Here presently Winslow Junction hosts Conrail, NJT and the Southern Railroad of NJ. The cars to the left are spotted for the SRNJ on the connecting track between NJT’s Atlantic City Rail Line and the Beesleys Point S. T.
”Quiet, you’ll scare the fish!” Despite posted signs discouraging tresspassers, the Cedar Swamp bridge in Petersburg, NJ is a hot spot for anglers and crabbers alike.
Located just west of the terminus of the Beesleys Point Secondary Track, the site was the scene of a derailment about 5 years prior where 8 tanker cars went into the swamp while a train was headed to the power plant. August 1998.
WPCA11 prepares to leave the Deepwater Interchange Track at Carney's Point, NJ. A pair of SD40-2 head up the train seen here in the fall of 1999.
Black River & Western #60, an Alco 2-8-0, smokes it up at the Whippany Railway
Festival, Whippany, NJ in 1994. Normally #60 can be found operating excursion
trains between Ringoes and Flemington, NJ.
Suzy Q #142, a Chinese built mikado, makes a nice companion for a weary fireman at the Whippany Railway Festival in 1994. The temperature hit 95 degrees farenheit that day making any steam railroaders job a difficult task. The New York, Susquehanna and Western routinely makes their prize steam engine available for open house events and excursions.
Cape May Seashore Lines Budd RDC-1 #407 at rest in Cape May, NJ in September of
1999. The former Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines engine is home again with all
but one of the surviving PRSL Budds. The Budds last operated in Cape May County,
NJ in the 1970's. As of December of 1998, trains are again operating into Cape May.