CSAO Elizabethport Yard (ex-CRRNJ)
Elizabeth, NJ
22 October 2010

CSX #9474 [RCC]

Here is the second piece of unusual equipment I encountered this day.

It is a RCC or Remote Control Car. This car is placed on the train where an engineer can operate the locomotive remotely from the platform (on the far end in this photo).

After reading up this type of equipment in trainboard.com, I learned that capturing these cars on film is rare, because they are usually buried in a secure yard in operation.

After learning this, now I want to catch this car in action!

Quite fortunately, Elizabethport Yard has a public entrance and road that crosses the east end of the yard to access the secure area where this RCC is currently located in the Elizabethport Yard, the car itself is kept at the front of that secured area with a check point entrance. So, I was able to stand outside the checkpoint and shoot through an open gate without having to actually enter the secure area.

BTW, the secure area stores tankcars of hexane, which is offloaded into tanker trucks.

Minolta Maxxum 9
Tamron 70-210mm f2.8 SP LD IF
Fuji Superia 400
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CSAO Elizabethport Yard (ex-CRRNJ)
Elizabeth, NJ
22 October 2010

CSX #9474 [RCC]

Here is the second piece of unusual equipment I encountered this day.

It is a RCC or Remote Control Car. This car is placed on the train where an engineer can operate the locomotive remotely from the platform (on the far end in this photo).

After reading up this type of equipment in trainboard.com, I learned that capturing these cars on film is rare, because they are usually buried in a secure yard in operation.

After learning this, now I want to catch this car in action!

Quite fortunately, Elizabethport Yard has a public entrance and road that crosses the east end of the yard to access the secure area where this RCC is currently located in the Elizabethport Yard, the car itself is kept at the front of that secured area with a check point entrance. So, I was able to stand outside the checkpoint and shoot through an open gate without having to actually enter the secure area.

BTW, the secure area stores tankcars of hexane, which is offloaded into tanker trucks.

Minolta Maxxum 9
Tamron 70-210mm f2.8 SP LD IF
Fuji Superia 400..

Photographed by Philip M. Goldstein, October 22, 2010.
Added to the photo archive by Philip M. Goldstein, October 25, 2010.
Railroad: Conrail Shared Assets Operations.

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