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Jersey Central Lines in Color by William Brennan w/DJ Morning Sun Books
Jersey Central Lines in Color by William Brennan w/Dust jacket Morning Sun Books Copyright 1991 128 Pages Dust jacket has damage.
This book covers the Jersey Central Lines in the 1960s and 70s with its variety of diesel power. Discover the operations of the "Big Little Railroad" in its final; 15 years of existence.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey's principal claim to fame in its prime was its role as a "coal conveyor" bringing anthracite coal from mines in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton region of Pennsylvania and bituminous coal from its western connections to the New York metropolitan area. For a long time, it enjoyed a monopoly on traffic from the Lehigh Canal to New York Harbor and other roads like the Morris & Essex and the Lehigh Valley struggled to construct alternate routes. Until the heating market was preempted by gas and oil, the railroad enjoyed solid prosperity much like that of the Pocahontas roads to the south. The volume of traffic that resulted from the CNJ's role as the eastern connection of the Reading and the Baltimore & Ohio as well as its own passenger and freight trains required a four track right of way through its suburban territory. The expectations of continued prosperity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries probably inspired the construction of passenger and freight stations that were much more elaborate and substantial in design than might have been functionally necessary. One can easily understand how the line acquired the nickname Big Little Railroad.
My first encounters with this Big Little Railroad occurred in my childhood during the middle 1940's when camelback steam locomotives abounded. Living in the Greenville section of Jersey City at the time, my family would occasionally go shopping in New York City using the "Direct Line" which ran from Broad Street in Newark, N.J., to the Jersey City Terminal. My mother and I would board the train at the West Side Avenue station for the short trip to the terminal and a connecting ferry to New York. My reaction to the locomotives with the hiss and sputter of emerging steam was a mixture of fright and curiousity, like those of most children.
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