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New Brunswick, NJ

With weekend track work taking the southbound main track out of service a Trenton-bound NJ Transit train (headlight in distance, left side) was forced to share a track with several Amtrak trains south of County Interlocking. With Amtrak owning the track and dispatching it, no points for guessing whose trains go first.

The train on the far left is one of several Arrow III sets sitting out the weekend in County Yard. They will be used for fill-in trains during the morning rush. In 1963 the space south of the yard was turned into an experimental park and ride station called Jersey Avenue. One of the most strangely arranged stations in the system, it has no platform on the northbound side of the NEC. Instead all northbound trains serving it originate on a spur (once a branch line called the Millstone Branch) leading out of County Yard. It does have a platform on the southbound side of the NEC (from which this photo was taken).

Description
New Brunswick, NJ

With weekend track work taking the southbound main track out of service a Trenton-bound NJ Transit train (headlight in distance, left side) was forced to share a track with several Amtrak trains south of County Interlocking. With Amtrak owning the track and dispatching it, no points for guessing whose trains go first.

The train on the far left is one of several Arrow III sets sitting out the weekend in County Yard. They will be used for fill-in trains during the morning rush. In 1963 the space south of the yard was turned into an experimental park and ride station called Jersey Avenue. One of the most strangely arranged stations in the system, it has no platform on the northbound side of the NEC. Instead all northbound trains serving it originate on a spur (once a branch line called the Millstone Branch) leading out of County Yard. It does have a platform on the southbound side of the NEC (from which this photo was taken).