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Central Railroad of New Jersey Historical Journal 2002 Soft Cover 63 pages
Central Railroad of New Jersey Historical Journal 2002 Soft Cover 63 pages
Soft Cover
Copyright 2002
63 pages
Contents
CONTENTS
History of the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey (by
Frank T. Reilly) 2
Ever Ride A Camelback (by Philip R. Hastings) reproduced
with permission from Trains Magazine 12
Flag Stop at Fulton Street on CNJ Sea Shore Branch (by Tom
Gallo) 17
Fairbanks-Morse Locomotives of the CNJ (by Frank T. Reilly) 21
The Behemoth Trainmaster Locomotives of the CNJ (by A.
Michael Coleman) 26
Railroading on the Water — CNJ New York Harbor Operations
(by Thomas R. Flagg) 28
Jersey City Terminal History (by Frank T. Reilly) 43
CNJ's Final Years: Hope, Adversity, Dedication, and Survival
(by Nathan W. James) 48
Diesel Tug Boats of the CNJ (CNJ brochure, Frank T. Reilly
collection) 56
South Branch Passenger Service Farewell Photo Essay (by the
late Homer R. Hill) 60
The Men Who Built the Blue Comet (from Frank T. Reilly
collection) 62
CNJ Advertisements from 1927 and 1929 (from Frank T. Reilly
collection) 63
Photo Scrapbook 64
The exciting history of the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey is that of one of the oldest railroads in America. It began with the chartering of the Elizabethtown & Somerville Railroad Company on February 9, 1831, by a special act of the New Jersey state legislature.
It took the next five years to raise money to buy the land for the railroad, build it, and get ready for opening day. That day was August 13, 1836, when the first train rolled over the tracks between downtown Elizabeth (then Elizabethtown) and the Elizabethport ferry dock at the foot of what is now Broadway, about 2 miles away. At Elizabethport (then Elizabethtown Point), a steam boat owned by the Elizabethport and New York Ferry Company transported passengers and freight to Bergen Point (Bayonne) and Pier 1 (South Ferry), Manhattan.
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