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Stoney Brook Bridge in Hopewell, NJ

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Yesterday was a cold wet rainy day, but I was off from work and wanted to be on the road seeing something. I took the morning to explore a little more on the Readings line through New Jersey.

I took some time to explore this four track bridge which spans Stony Brook and Pennington-Hopewell Road. It has three arches over the brook and a steel girder/concrete through span over the road.

This is located between Pennington and Hopewell, NJ. The bridge is still used today, but the line no longer supports four tracks worth of traffic, only a single track remains today.

Also visible on under the bridge it appears that the span was two tracks at one time and widened with tracks on either side of the original abutment which was in the center.

Not Much Going On

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Not much new going on.

Here is a shot from yesterday at one of my favorite lunchtime spots, the West Trenton station. This was the second freight to pass while I was there during my lunch-hour, the first was a North-bound train with a bunch of UPS trailers on it. There was one more South-bound train passing before I left. I’m not that into the modern look but they are still trains.

Not much has happened with the layout recently. The good news was I have been going into the basement 4 or 5 time a week since last Summer… just not to work on the layout. As I said to my brother this past week, I moved my film processor into the basement last Summer and have been processing a ton of film since.

I hope to have some new stuff to talk about soon as I have a couple of projects lined up after the processing gets caught up.