Looking at the back of our CNJ steam special in 1953 before departing Dover, the human element is most facinating. Mr. Dan McFadden adds this caption info, "the trip covered the Rockaway Branch. ... (more)

A train full of railfans on the CNJ departs Dover. The man by the switch with the hat is probably the Trainmaster puffing on his cigar making sure we are having a good time. The steam was all go... (more)

Railfans from the '50s record the 810 before reboarding and departing Dover, on what may have been a N. Jersey Chptr. NRHS excursion. From correspondance with viewers, we surmise the trip covere... (more)

CNJ runs a large engine roundhouse and service facility at the midpoint on the Allentown LV/RDG/CNJ yard. In this shot two CNJ switchers frame a Reading Century 630 and two CNJ RSD-3s. CNJ 1011 an... (more)

The trains don't come around here no more... A CNJ survivor - built in 1891 at the top of a switchback, the freight house served as the Western most terminus for the railroad originating in Jerse... (more)

Now arriving on Track 1, the Queen of the Valley.

Once the site of the Ludlow-Asbury Station, this area along the out of service CNJ Main Line has turned into a quaint isolated... (more)

If these rails could talk...

In what could be one of the best preserved stretches of the abandoned Jersey Central Railroad Main Line, these dual tracks through Hampton have not... (more)

Looking like it belongs in a village under a Christmas tree, the former Central Railroad of New Jersey's Califon Station basks in the sunlight after a snowstorm the night before. This stone struc... (more)

On the left is the Scoot to Bayonne, lead by RDC1 #553, a 1954 Budd. On the right, is a Raritan bound train. Its cab car was one of four that were fabricated our of steel coaches in CNJ’s Eliza... (more)

These now out of service tracks once carried the Jersey Central Railroad's Main Line through the township of Glen Gardner in Hunterdon County. Looking west from Bell Avenue, the only road with a ... (more)

Half a century has passed since this trestle on the CNJ Barnegat Branch over the Oyster Creek in Lacey last saw a train. It has survived throughout the years, through various stages of urban deve... (more)

It is a bittersweet story for the 450-foot-long, 60-foot high timber Lake Matawan Trestle. NJT, who owns the ex-CNJ Freehold Branch planned on tearing down the trestle in 1998 to prevent lawsuits ... (more)