Loco With A Point at Point-No-Point. On Sunday, March 30, 2025, CSX M403-30 made the trip from Selkirk, New York to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with CSXT 911 (ES44AH, Spirit Of Our First Responders) leading. It is seen crossing the Point-No-Point camelback through truss bridge over the Passaic River from Kearny to Newark, New Jersey with the New York City skyline in the background. The locomotive celebrates the service of Fire, Police, and EMS workers, as well as commemorating the tragic events of September 11, 2001. This bridge was opened in 1901 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a freight bypass of its mainline and today serves Conrail Shared Assets trains. Projected to be competed in 2025, at a cost an estimated by Conrail officials as $212 million, it will not only provide a modern structure but also reduce the time for opening the bridge for marine traffic from over 5 hours to about 5 minutes. Significant progress has already been made as both the new bridge and temporary road span more than half of the river. The Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was created on April 1, 1976 to bring together the passenger and freight service of 7 large railroad companies and their subsidiary corporations, and was ultimately privatized and purchased by CSX and Norfolk Southern in 1999, leaving the dual controlled Conrail Shared Assets to manage the sections kept separate to avoid giving one railroad an advantage in those areas.
