Passenger Trains > "Slot Train Racing" - Amtrak & NJT at Linden, NJ

Reminds me of a slot car track - only white, with rail, lol.

An Amtrak train led an ACS-64 #640 runs on the express track
ducking the surviving PRR signals while passing a local NJT train
making an approach to Linden station.

For those wondering, I beleive the overhead bridge in the background
is the former Staten Island Railway freight line to Cranford, NJ which is
no longer in service.   However, looking at Google Maps, it seems there are
some frieight cars in a nearby yard.  Tracing the line, it appears the tracks are
still there - and follow 'em long enough, they run into CSX's line near Bound Brook.
Seems a viable line - is it actually out of service?  What parts remain in service
and how is the nearby yard accessed?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Linden,+NJ/@40.6376967,-74.2442835,2918m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c3b310880c1167:0x7decc01de2f073f8!6m1!1e1?hl=en

/Mitch

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While we're at it - anyone able to identify the train just by looking at it?

Time stamp shows 3:39 PM on 1-27-2016.

Fresh snow, blue skies and a telephoto lens - it was just too good to
pass up!

/Mitch

97(27), Silver Meteor.  Three sleepers and a diner.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/09/16 17:41 by GenePoon.

GenePoon Wrote:
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> 97(27), Silver Meteor.

How d'ya know?  Visual clues in regards to the consist or the time stamp?

/Mitch
 

your title heading is a little misleading ....

here's a Slot Train ... used in track maintenance on Amtrak ...

 

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I believe the overhead bridge is indeed the SIRT connection to Staten Island Junction. Parts of the line have been used for car storage.

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Out_Of_Service Wrote:
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> your title heading is a little misleading ....
>
> here's a Slot Train ... used in track maintenance
> on Amtrak ...



OK, I'll bite; What's a "Slot Train"?

/Mitch

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Some Amtrak 640 trivia for you, the 640 was used to make the sound samples for Kato's N Scale ACS64. The crew from Soundtraxx and Kato spent 2 days at the SIEMENS factory in Sacramento. I was the commissioning engineer at that time, and we all had a great time making the recordings with the 640.

John Black

Mgoldman Wrote:
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> GenePoon Wrote:
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> > 97(27), Silver Meteor.
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> How d'ya know?  Visual clues in regards to the
> consist or the time stamp?
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It was a sunlit day and I trusted the light on the front of the AMTK 640 to tell me the train was southbound
(timetable westbound).

It is a long distance train.

The Crescent runs not that far ahead of the Meteor so the sun would have struck it similarly, but it
carries only two sleepers.  The Silver Starvation has no diner. 

Three sleepers and a diner is what really does it.



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Mgoldman Wrote:
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> Out_Of_Service Wrote:
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> > your title heading is a little misleading ....
> >
> > here's a Slot Train ... used in track
> maintenance
> > on Amtrak ...
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>
>
> OK, I'll bite; What's a "Slot Train"?
>
> /Mitch
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> Posted from Android

​a self propelled work train with interconnected gondolas with the trackhoe inside with a multi faceted hydraulic connection on the end of the arm for different functional attachments ... Amtrak contracts a few of them for use on the NEC ... nice photo BTW ...

http://www.georgetownrail.com/Rail-Solutions/Material-Handling/SlotMachine

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The Meteor is down to 3 coaches, as well as the Star.

Nice photo, I like the "race" feel.

Nathan

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atsf121 Wrote:
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> Nice photo, I like the "race" feel.
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> Nathan
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In late afternoon, from Rahway eastward, there are times when three trains are visible, and in motion. Sometimes four.

Although it's theoretically possible to have six trains in view (A 1 2 3 4 B), I have never seen more than five at one time, facing in one direction.

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