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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.
Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 #4877 on display at the URHS facility. The United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey, Inc. (or URHS of NJ) is a non-profit educational organization directed at supporting the preservation of New Jersey's historical railroad equipment and artifacts for the proposed New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center or in its absence, another railroad museum in New Jersey.
"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]
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Central Railroad of New Jersey: October 29, 2006 [115] Glen Gardner Raritan Valley Line: Glen Gardner: Central Railroad of New Jersey: July 2, 1852 [116] January 1, 1984 [117] Closed as part of the truncation of service back to High Bridge on January 1, 1984. [117] Grant Avenue Raritan Valley Line: Plainfield: Central Railroad of New Jersey