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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.
The Newark and New York Branch was a railway line that ran between Downtown Newark and the Communipaw Terminal at the mouth of the North River (Hudson River) in Jersey City, bridging the Hackensack River and Passaic River just north of their mouths at the Newark Bay in northeastern New Jersey. The Central Railroad of New Jersey operated it from ...
Central Railroad of New Jersey: Hibernia Underground Railroad: 1879 High Bridge Railroad: CNJ: 1872 1887 Central Railroad of New Jersey: Hoboken Railroad, Warehouse and Steamship Connecting Company: 1895 1978 N/A (operated by Hoboken Shore Railroad) Hoboken Land and Improvement Company: DL&W, ERIE: 1860 1886 Morris and Essex Railroad, New ...
"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]
June: The New Jersey Junction Railroad (NYC) opens for passengers. [8] October: The Lehigh Valley Railroad settles a long legal battle with the Central Railroad of New Jersey, opening the way to build a Jersey City terminal on land originally purchased in 1872 for the New Jersey West Line Railroad. [9]
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.