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CNJ and created
Desperate to cut costs, the CNJ turned to the state who created a " railroad transportation division " within the highway commission headed up by Dwight R. G. Palmer, who was placed in charge of preserving rail commuter services as a cheaper alternative to a new highway building program.

CNJ and route
At the end of 1925 CNJ operated 691 route miles and 1938 track miles, not including NY & LB ; totals in 1970 were 591 and 1436.

CNJ and which
Lakehurst is being considered as the southern terminus of the planned New Jersey Transit Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex Line, which would closely follow the CNJ line.
A new curved viaduct was constructed eastward from 8th Street to 11th Street in Bayonne to join the existing right-of way to Liberty State Park, which was once the main line of the Central Railroad of New Jersey ( CNJ ), parts of which rest on the bed of the Morris Canal ; CNJ's Newark and New York Railroad right-of-way was used for the line west to West Side Avenue.
The 1880s continued to be a period of growth, and the LVRR made important acquisitions in New York, expanded its reach into the southern coal field of Pennsylvania which had hitherto been the monopoly of the Reading, and successfully battled the CNJ over terminal facilities in Jersey City.
The land that Asa Packer had obtained in 1872 was situated on the southern side of the Morris Canal's South Basin, but the CNJ already had its own facilities adjacent to that property and disputed the LVRR's title, which partly overlapped land the CNJ had filled for its own terminal.
The LVRR obtained a 5-year agreement to use the CNJ line to access the terminal, which opened in 1889.
In 1901 Morgan arranged to have the Packer Estate's holdings purchased jointly by the Erie, the Pennsylvania, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, the DLW, and the CNJ, all companies in which Morgan had interests.
From the beginning, the LVRR's New York City passengers had used the Pennsylvania Railroad's terminal and ferry at Jersey City, but in 1913 the PRR terminated that agreement, so the LVRR contracted with the CNJ for use of its terminal and ferry, which was expanded to handle the increased number of passengers.
On October 6, 1873, the CNJ leased the New York and Long Branch Railroad, which was in the process of building from Perth Amboy southeast to Long Branch.
In 1901 the Reading Railroad gained control of the CNJ, which lasted until the creation of Conrail on April 1, 1976.
In the aftermath of the Conrail merger New Jersey allowed several former CNJ lines shed by Conrail to be abandoned, most notably much of its four-track main line east of Aldene, NJ ( as part of the Aldene Plan starting in 1967 ) and the impressive Newark Bay Bridge, spanning from Elizabethport to Bayone, which was removed in the early 1980s.
This allowed CNJ to end the ferry service between Jersey City and Manhattan, which was losing money.
The Aldene Connection is a connection between two railroad lines in Roselle Park, New Jersey, United States, one formerly belonging to the Central Railroad of New Jersey ( CNJ ), the other formerly of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, allowing trains on the New Jersey Transit Raritan Valley Line to travel from Cranford through stations in Roselle Park and Union to the Hunter Connection in Newark, which in turn allows access to the Northeast Corridor and Newark Penn Station.
Also affected by the change was the Reading Company's Crusader service from Philadelphia, which operated over the CNJ via trackage rights.
On February 15, 1877 the Kent County was sold at foreclosure and bought by the New Jersey Southern Railroad ( later part of the Central Railroad of New Jersey ( CNJ )), which merged the two companies as the Baltimore and Delaware Bay Railroad on May 12, 1883.

CNJ and intended
The CNJ, seeing that the LVRR intended to create its own line across New Jersey, protected itself by leasing the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad ( L & S ) to ensure a continuing supply of coal traffic.

CNJ and up
This would allow the CNJ to abandon its labor-intensive ferry service and much of its Communipaw Terminal in Jersey City, and all local trains operating east of Cranford, all totaling up to about $ 1. 5 million in annual savings.

CNJ and its
After the LVRR opened its line, the Lehigh & Susquehanna extended to Phillipsburg and connected with the CNJ and the Morris and Essex Railroad in 1868.
Then the CNJ opposed the LVRR's attempt to cross its line at Caven Point.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was also looking for access to the New York market, and in 1903 the B & O gained control over the Reading and thus ensured its trains track rights over the Reading and CNJ to Jersey City.
Though that was later canceled, the Reading continued to exert major influence over the CNJ, and used it for its New York City terminal.
In 1882 the CNJ and Pennsylvania Railroad agreed to use the line jointly, with trackage rights granted to the PRR over the Perth Amboy and Elizabethport between the Perth Amboy and Woodbridge crossing and its south end at the Raritan River bridge.
In 1929 the CNJ began operating its most famous train, the Blue Comet, from Jersey City to Atlantic City.
The LVRR reaches its new terminal over CNJ tracks on a 5-year lease.

CNJ and tracks
NJ Transit, Conrail, and former CNJ tracks meet at Aldene

CNJ and along
On the Perth Amboy end, they used existing trackage from the end of private right-of-way along Woodbridge Avenue, East Avenue, Broad Street, private right-of-way south, west across West Avenue, and south along the east side of the CNJ line to the Woodbridge Creek bridge, then south on West Avenue and State Street, ending at Smith Street.
The CNJ operated both freight and passenger service along the line into the twentieth century, referring to it as the Perth Amboy and Elizabethport Branch.
As a concession to a few hundred factory workers that worked along the CNJ east of Aldene, Budd Rail Diesel Cars continued to run between Cranford and Bayonne until August 6, 1978.

CNJ and Lehigh
There is a L & HR snow flanger, Tidewater tank car, a CNJ box car owned by the Anthracite Railroads Historical Society, a 1922 Chestnut Ridge Mack railbus owned by the Lehigh Valley NRHS, a Public Service trolley owned by the North Jersey Electric Railway Historical Society, a 44 ton GE locomotive and a 25 ton GE locomotive.
1884 map of the Pennsylvania Railroad | Pennsylvania, Reading and Lehigh Valley Railroad s, soon after the Reading acquired the CNJ. The Reading leased the North Pennsylvania Railroad on May 14, 1879.
The rest of the line to Phillipsburg opened in 1852, and on September 8, 1855, the upper level of the Lehigh Valley Railroad's Easton Bridge over the Delaware River, taking the CNJ to Easton.
At that time, Lehigh Valley coal trains began running over the CNJ to Elizabeth.
In 1961 the CNJ purchased two portions of the dissolving Lehigh and New England Railroad from the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.
This became the Lehigh and New England Railway, with two segments-Lansford to Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, connecting coal mines to the Reading Railroad ; and Bethlehem to Bath and Martins Creek, Pennsylvania, connecting cement mills to the CNJ and Lehigh Valley Railroad.
Paralleling the Lehigh Valley Railroad from the Hudson River to Scranton, the CNJ was a fierce competitor for anthracite coal and freight traffic.
* April 1-The Central Railroad of New Jersey ( CNJ ) pulls out of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, becoming a terminal road in New Jersey ; this does not affect their Lehigh and New England Railway operations, however.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad assumes operation of the former CNJ lines in Pennsylvania.
It would involve the building of a ramp to connect the CNJ and the Lehigh Valley Railroad at the site of the recently abandoned Aldene Station to reroute trains bound for Jersey City to follow the LV to the Pennsylvania Railroad mainline ( now the Northeast Corridor ) and on to Newark Penn Station where passengers could transfer to PRR trains into New York Penn Station.

CNJ and River
With Packer's backing and leadership his chief engineer Robert H. Sayre completed the road in 1855 from Mauch Chunk ( present-day Jim Thorpe ) to the Delaware River at Easton, where coal could be shipped to Philadelphia on the Delaware Division Canal or transported across the river to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where the Morris Canal and the Central Railroad of New Jersey ( CNJ ) could carry it to the New York market.
At Easton the LVRR constructed a double-decked bridge across the Delaware River for connections to the CNJ and the Belvidere Delaware Railroad in Phillipsburg.
When the line east from Sayreville to South Amboy was completed, a connection was made with the CNJ over the New York & Long Branch, providing the Raritan River Railroad with connections to the two larger railroads.

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