JACKSON: Earlier this week we received reports of a freight train derailing here in Ocean County. These are the train tracks that run along Faraday in Jackson, on the Lakewood border. This train was carrying supplies when it struck a damaged portion of railroad track, and became derailed.
Witnesses tell OCSN that a train was backing up, and there was a section of rail missing. The train backed up too far and tipped over- no threat to the public. The railroad company is supposed to be coming with a crane soon to get it back on the tracks. These train track are seldom used, and easily haven’t been used in 5 years according to people who are nearby.
How could they use them if they were decommissioned? What company was using then and what for?
Did it say they were decommissioned?
Matthew Schroeder the tracks are not decommissioned. They use this track once a week to runaround their train and head north.
When were those tracks declared open
Scott A Barnes Who declared them closed ?
Vernon Howard when was the last time they were used
Scott A Barnes Dont know…dont care.
Vernon Howard why post then?
Scott A Barnes Why you post then ?
Scott A Barnes Why not ?…You posted
Vernon Howard cuz I asked a legit question ,not try to gaslight
A what ?….are you sure you spelled stupid right ?
Vernon Howard and the grammar police are long gone. Gaslight elsewhere son
Excuse me, but if you really wanna go there BOY lets go.
Vernon Howard go where? I posted about a what was along a bonded rail track you’re trying to be idk what but it ain’t happening
Vernon Howard u 2 are funny! Who’s drinking what??? ????
Scott A Barnes every now and then a few times a year I get stopped bc of a freight train going by
Vernon Howard Scott A Barnes
Vernon Howard too funny ????
Liz McPhail idk what happened there but I ain’t dealing with gaslighting or internet tough guys. Not worth it either way
Scott A Barnes still lmao reading back to those comments! I’m dying ???? ????
Scott A Barnes they were never closed.
I think someone needs a diaper change and a bottle and a nap
Scott A Barnes it says once a week
Scott A Barnes Normally the train runs down every Thursday of the week
Scott A Barnes privately owned. They can do as they wish, without your approval I’m sure.
Rich Cangiano the rail tracks are privately owned?
Scott A Barnes absolutely, I know Clayton owed the entire tracks that ran out to Woodmansie
Rich Cangiano when I used to work in Howell, I’d get stopped occasionally by that train in Lakewood.
Scott A Barnes they have been using them for prolly the last 20 years frequently, late at night/early morning mostly
I live right near there off whitesville & hear the train every Thursday night for atleast 10yrs now. I think someone said it’s Clayton running sand loads to their pit down by bayville ?….
So sorry to hear this & hope no one was injured. I heard the train this afternoon for the 1st time in the daytime that I’m aware of. Usually hear it around 10-11pm Thursday nights. I can hear it blowing the whistle 4-5 times which I assume is Rt9, James St, Cross St & Faraday, the closer it gets-the louder it gets, i love it. ???? ????
I just followed the tracks on Google maps & it looks like the track ends at what goes right into a Clayton sand pit in chatsworth, so guess that is where it goes then
Lauren M. Noll every Thursday night it comes down from Sayreville to deliver lumber to woodhaven lumber over on James st
Lauren M. Noll only goes as far as Lakewood now. They haven’t gone south of there since 2009. They use a runaround track to runaround their train. It carries mainly lumber.
Dan Catapano oh ok, sorry didn’t know, definitely sounds like I’m hearing it after cross street & approaching faraday. Ever since biljim put that pit out of whitesville behind faraday & white rd. The sounds funnels right into my yard & I can hear the engine chugging along the tracks too, I think woodhaven is too far to hear it that clearly but who knows with all the trees knocked down in Lakewood these days.
Lauren M. Noll right. I think it ends at cross street by those warehouses and reverses course.
Lauren M. Noll its definitely used by clayton im just not exactly sure where they are going with it
Was never used by Clayton I was used by wood haven lumber to move lumber …
Who is hiding what. What are the supplies? Who sent them? Why were they trying to secretly bring them in? Who ordered the supplies?
Michael Ann Pease And only god knows what the hell you are talking about. Move along…nothing to see here…lol
Michael Ann Pease its Bidens kiddie train
James Reno Or maybe it was the Sssssoooulll train..lol
Move along bot.
Biden’s kiddie train, with that guy anything is possible. Considering he loves to smell the girls hair.
Vernon Howard I’ve totally lost it this whole post is cracking me up. Thanks for the laugh LOL
Michael Ann Pease bot who ?
Liz McPhail No problem…iam here for the laughs too…lol
Vernon Howard i had a rough day! Lost another family member to Covid so i really needed a laugh. TY stay safe
Liz McPhail Sorry to hear that. Ive known of 2 deaths of people i know. You very welcome for the chuckles.
Michael Ann Pease Sleepy Joe ordered the supplies and had them marked: Ship Via A Slow Train To China.”
Vernon Howard so u are gonna hear of one more sorry… but that’s what I’ve always heard! I got my three already. Sorry…don’t want to be a morbid person but we all die once (hopefully)but have to live every day like’s it’s our last! R u doing that?
Somebody’s Driving that train high on cocaine they better watch their speed
James Reno oh look. Another kool aid kid. ????
Lisa Miller Herbert
James Reno lol. Ok lil buckaroo. ????
James Reno lol. Ok lil buckaroo. ????
Lisa Miller Herbert typical type of response from your kind
James Reno lol. Boo hoo. Run along little cult member. YOUR kind is going out of fashion again. ????
Lisa Miller Herbert exactly my point, TYPICAL.. when somebody doesnt agree with your type of views, YOUR kind automatically labels them. You know nothing about me or what i support.
James Reno you support conspiracy theories. You said as much in your post. So yes, you are labeled a nut job. And rightfully so.
My questions refer to why are there shipments late at night. Is there a government project going on we don’t know about? Considering how the government is behaving I have a right to know.
Lisa Miller Herbert rightfully so, youre delusional. At no point anywhere have i expressed any sort of conspiracy theory.
James Reno ok so now you’re telling me you didn’t say “Biden’s kiddie train”. Who exactly is delusional? Lol. Wow you’re a real piece of work sweetie.
Lisa Miller Herbert its called SATIRE sweetie
James Roosevelt
Ali Marie so odd
Patricia Reed
Victoria Reed I believe wood is delivered to or from Woodhaven lumber in Lakewood. It goes through once a week at night
Patricia Reed correct. Conrail SA-31 every Thursday night
Patricia Reed yes. I’d I’ve been caught at those tracks a few times working between Lakewood and Howell
Elizabeth Catelli I caught it a few times myself. ????
It was overloaded with stolen ballots.
Supplies for the Antifa riots ????????
It’s a GUIDERAIL!!! ????????????
There is definitely some
Questions that need to be addressed. The tracks from cross street, down faraday and across whitesville have been over grown with trees and also down trees have been across the tracks for over 5 or 6 years . To those saying the train was going to claytons , know this the tracks going to claytons pit has been removed for many years, probably 10 years at least .
Matt Spears you need a hobby
Matt Spears the tracks goes to Woodhaven it was a train full of wood
Wait there’s still a train ocean county ????
Shannon Lu
Jacob and Joseph
Joseph is this the sous line.
Yes
Southernmost part
Jacob this is why he doesn’t like it.
I used to play paintball in the woods by those tracks. If I remember correctly it used to carry lumber
Ah shit the vaccines
I would usually hear the train on Thursday Night about 9 pm as as it was crossing Whitesville Road (527)
Corey Robert
Nothing to see here… Carry on
The train runs every Thursday to Woodhaven lumber with about 16-18 carloads of wood. The track was placed out of services just past Cross St. There is a run around track where the engines get on the east side of train to go back to browns yard Sayville. The train pushed the cars too far back and over a derail on to the OOS portion this caused the derailment.
Stephen DeSanto
Thank you!
Having lived a stones throw from the derailment location up in till 3 years ago I went over this afternoon to get a look. Approximately 20 feet of the east rail was missing. It was clean cut and well rusted over. I would guess it was missing for some time. The Thursday night train had a few extra cars compared to other runs including a tanker car which I had not seen since the 80’s when the track was in operations all the way to Lakehurst and then on to Ciba. Looks like the train was too long to all fit on to the South Lakewood switchback, so the conductor push it down the abandoned section of tracks heading towards Lakehurst and no one saw that the tracks was missing. Thank goodness no was hurt and only one car was off the tracks.
That’s the Conrail Shared Assets Southern Secondary. Check YouTube, there are several YouTube channels that cover the Thursday runs down the line.
Steve Rickabaugh Jersey Shore Rail Productions! Very cool stuff! ????????????????????????
This is pretty nuts been down here all these years and passed number of these crossings thousands of times.. never seen it. You would think I’d have caught it once out of pure coincidence
Jamie Bonavita Goodman glad you enjoy my content! ????????????
Maybe they should have someone keep up with the debris on the tracks. A lot of people looking for work. Those tracks were used a lot when I was growing up. We walked back there all the time. Haven’t seen a train there in years.
Must have been Extra men ????
Nick Molteg
When I was a kid it happened a couple times a year.
Joe Burdge that’s what I was telling Jonnie Ward
Andy Cheung or a fire along the tracks.
Justin Hayden
Andrew Michael
There are trees growing through those tracks, did they seriously think they were going to get through?!
Oh my
Julia right around the corner from you
A.C. Ellis good they fixed it
You would be surprised what people threw on the tracks my son worked for the train company old bikes grass clippings old tires some on rims people it’s awful
You would be more surprised if you saw what they throw on the Amtrak Acela & NJ Transit tracks in north Jersey … a miracle that there haven’t been major train crashes
It has been over 5 years! I was pregnant with my son the last time I saw a train on these tracks!
John Loricchio
Lenny Pugliese very few gifted make the headlines…
Train to nowhere……..going towards lakewood !
High on Cocaine?
Joseph Jones What the hell does cocaine have to do with this ?
Vernon Howard think music
Joseph Jones Casey Jones didn’t watch his speed
https://youtu.be/d160GSGtPxY
Vernon Please tell me you’re joking!
Too many care for the Runaround so you do a double runaround. Not many new guys know how to make that work. Back in the day we did that there with the sand train only we had 69 cars and the siding only held 35. And we had to put the caboose on the south end to shove to gladden . We did have 2 break men then but try to figure out how we did it????