A Conrail GP30 and N5C cabin car occupy the Ford Lead in Teterboro, NJ. Both trace their heritage to the Pennsylvania Railroad via Penn Central. The Ford Lead is former Erie/Erie Lackawanna industrial trackage off the NJ & NY Branch (Pascack Valley Line). The local was most likely Conrail WJOI-31 which, at the time, was noted as operating to "Hackensack/Pearl River (NY) & Return". Usually the "return" involved the crew outlawing here and a WJNB-37 recrew taking over after the evening rush hour. This train was often referred to on the radio as the "Hayshaker" by Conrail crews who I suspect were former EL employees, as the nickname dated back to the EL.
Photographs where trains and people mix, weather it's street running, plant switching or carrying a unit grain train out of an elevator, it will be put here.
Photos of the Pascack Valley Line. This railroad was built as the New Jersey and New York RR, falling under the control of Erie, Erie Lackawanna, Conrail and NJDOT before present passenger operator New Jersey Transit and freight carrier Norfolk Southern.
