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CNJ operations in Pennsylvania ended March 31, 1972. [1] CNJ maintained a small carfloat terminal in The Bronx. It was the site of the first successful Class 1 railroad diesel operation. Over the years CNJ maintained an extensive marine operation on New York Bay, including a steamer line to Sandy Hook.
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. South from Red Bank, the CNJ operated the following stations:
A major railroad junction used by Conrail, CSX and Norfolk Southern for freight operations into northeastern New Jersey from points south and west. There are a lot of train movements through this junction every day. Princeton Junction: PRR: New York Line/Princeton Branch: West Windsor
CNJ High Bridge Branch Detail of High Bridge Junctions in the Dover area Califon station Schematic map of the High Bridge Branch at its greatest extent. The High Bridge Branch is a branch line that was operated by the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ).
Map of rail lines around Essex, Hudson, and Union counties in New Jersey. The grey CNJ line from Bayonne to Elizabeth was carried by the CNJ's Newark Bay Bridge. The Newark Bay Bridge of the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) was a railroad bridge in New Jersey that connected Elizabethport and Bayonne at the southern end of Newark Bay.
The railroad's suburban trains served passengers to west and south, including the Jersey Shore. CNJ's long-distance service into Pennsylvania ran to Harrisburg, Scranton, and present-day Jim Thorpe, then known as Mauch Chunk. [15] The Reading Company used the terminal for its Crusader and Wall Street trains.
Opened on July 23, 1869 and operated by the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ), the railroad provided a direct route between Newark and its Jersey City terminal, where passengers could transfer to ferries to New York. [2] The line cost $300,000 per mile, unprecedented at the time, earning it the sobriquet "the country's costliest railroad". [3]
Carteret and Sewaren Railroad: CNJ: 1890 1917 Central Railroad of New Jersey: Central Railroad of New Jersey: CNJ CNJ 1849 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation: Charlottesburgh and Green Lake Railroad: CNJ: 1876 1888 Morris County Railroad: Chelsea Branch Railroad: PRSL 1889 1896 West Jersey and Seashore Railroad: Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: CO ...