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The Central Railroad of New Jersey, also known as the Jersey Central, Jersey Central Lines or New Jersey Central (reporting mark CNJ), was a Class I railroad with origins in the 1830s. It was absorbed into Conrail in April 1976 along with several other prominent bankrupt railroads of the Northeastern United States.
In 1917, the CNJ took over the New Jersey Southern Railroad. It was along this trackage that the CNJ operated its most famous train, The Blue Comet , which ran from Jersey City to Winslow Junction, and then along The Reading Co's Atlantic City Railroad trackage to Atlantic City .
The Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, also known as Communipaw Terminal and Jersey City Terminal, was the Central Railroad of New Jersey's waterfront passenger terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey. The terminal was built in 1889, replacing an earlier one that had been in use since 1864.
Central Railroad of New Jersey: Sound Shore Railroad: CNJ: 1894 1917 Central Railroad of New Jersey: South Branch Railroad: CNJ: 1861 1888 Central Railroad of New Jersey: South Easton and Phillipsburg Railroad: L&HR: 1889 1912 Lehigh and Hudson River Railway: South Jersey Railroad: PRSL 1893 1898 Seacoast Railroad: South Mountain and Boston ...
Elizabeth is a disused train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey.It was built by the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) in 1893. It is adjacent to NJ Transit's Elizabeth station on the Northeast Corridor.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey was consolidated into Conrail. The Allentown Terminal Railroad , Bay Shore Connecting Railroad , Beaver Meadow, Trescow and New Boston Railroad , New York and Long Branch Railroad and Raritan River Railroad were partly owned by the CNJ.
Central Railroad of New Jersey's High Bridge crossing the Raritan River in 1854. The Central Railroad of New Jersey constructed an extension of the former Elizabeth and Somerville Railroad from Clinton in 1852. In order to complete the railroad, it required crossing the Raritan River. The planners decided that a high bridge was the route to go ...
"NEW JERSEY CENTRAL" lettering on the former facade. The Central Railroad of New Jersey established the Newark and New York Railroad in 1866 to construct a branch from Jersey City, New Jersey, to Newark, New Jersey. [4] The 6-mile (9.7 km) line cost a then-exorbitant $300,000 per mile. [5]