Urban railroading in Jersey City. A westbound PATH train heads towards Newark while a CSX train is pulling out of Kearny Yard (formally the PRR Meadows Yard) and heading up the Marion Running Track to allow it access to the River Line. This corridor was the PRR line into Jersey City and Exchange Place. To the left was the passenger train by-pass of the Meadows Yard and to the right was the freight line. After Conrail was formed, freight trains wanting to go north here to access the River Line had to pull through the Journal Square station behind me and reverse onto the connection. In 1994, New Jersey Transit paid for the new Marion Junction so that all Conrail trains could be directed away from the water-front line and the route could be used for the new light rail system that NJT was building.
