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(erielack) NS Train at Mountain View (NJ) Station

For the last couple months, I've been able to catch an NS freight at NJ
Transit's Mountain View-Wayne Station. It seems to run Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, approaching Mt View from the east between 12-3 PM. I have a couple
questions:

1. Where does this train originate and what's the destination?
2. What is the train symbol/number?
3. What industries does it serve? The consist always includes boxcars but
today it had 3 covered hoppers and a corn syrup tank.
4. The power is always a pair of GPs (maybe a GE once in a very long while).
Most days the pair is separated; one at each end of the train facing away
from each other. Today they were coupled together. Why the change? Is there
a particular customer siding that causes this?
5. Under the renumber "stickers" on the cab sides, NS has stenciled a city
name. For example, today's power was PRR #5381 (stenciled "Baltimore") and
PRR #5387 (stenciled "Suffern"). I've only seen this done with Amtrak
engines. What does the city name represent to the railroad? What caused NS
to start writing city names?

Thank you in advance,
Charles




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