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Posted by Larry,RedbirdR33 on Wed Apr 29 17:40:47 2009 Tuscarora Almanac - April 29, 1967THE TUSCARORA ALMANAC APRIL 29,1967 – SATURDAY This will be the last full day of service on the Jersey Central Railroad into Jersey City and Newark, as well as on the mainline west of Hampton and the Perth Amboy Branch. The last eastbound SEASHORE LINE train is No. 3366. It leaves from Bay Head Junction on the New York and Long Branch Railroad at 8:59 PM and arrives in Jersey City at 10:39 PM. The last westbound SEASHORE LINE train is No.3367. It leaves Jersey City at 9:47 PM and arrives at Bay Head Junction at 11:29 PM. The two trains actually past each other in the vicinity of Port Reading about 10:15 PM. They close out the service on the Perth Amboy Branch which had connected the CNJ Mainline at Elizabethport with the New York and Long Branch Railroad at Perth Amboy. The last eastbound NEWARK SHUTTLE is No. 7262. It leaves E-Port at 10:25 PM and arrives at Broad Street Station in Newark at 10: 39 PM. The last westbound NEWARK SHUTTLE is No.7267 . It leaves from Newark at 10:55 PM and arrives in E-Port at 11:10 PM. The consist for both these runs were RDC’s 557 and 559. these two trains closed out the service on the Newark and Elizabeth Branch Newark and New York Branch . The premier train on the CNJ was the QUEEN OF THE VALLEY which ran all between Jersey City, New Jersey and Allentown, Pennsylvania six days a week. It still carried an open platform observation car. The last eastbound QUEEN was No. 1102. It left from Allentown at 8:00 AM and arrived in Jersey City at 10:15 AM. The last westbound QUEEN was No. 1199. It left from Jersey City at 5:12 PM and arrived in Allentown at 7:45 PM. With the Queen’s passing all passenger service west of Hampton, New Jersey came to and end. The last eastbound MAINLINE train was No. 1436 which left Raritan at 11:14 PM and arrived in Jersey City at 12:15 AM, early in the morning of April 30. The last westbound MAINLINE train and the last train of all to leave Jersey City was No.2483. It left from Jersey City at 12:42 AM on April 30 and arrived in Raritan at 1:39 PM. This ended all service on the Mainline east of East 33 Street Station in Bayonne. This was also the last day of operation of the Jersey City-Communipaw Ferry. During the day both THE TIDES and THE NARROWS had been in service but only THE TIDES was running at the end. The last eastbound ferry left Jersey City at 12:19 AM, April 30 and arrived at Liberty Street eight minutes later. The last westbound ferry left from Liberty Street at 12:30 AM and closed out the service. A PERSONAL NOTE: The CNJ was an all diesel road which was kind of adopted by the electric rail fans of the New York-New Jersey Area. In a very real sense it was New Jersey’s own railroad even though its operations extended into Pennsylvania. (Not to mention a freight terminal in The Bronx which was reached by car float.) It had major terminals at both Liberty Street in Manhattan and Jersey City. Both terminals had the usual services associated with railroad stations, ticket offices, baggage rooms, shoe-shine stands, newsstands and even a fruit and vegetable stand for homebound commuters. After the Aldene Plan was implemented CNJ trains arrived at Pennsylvania Station in Newark and then proceeded into a yard located in Harrison . Here several old CNJ coaches were coupled together to form a makeshift yard office and crew quarters. This yard was of course closed to the public and the only public face of the CNJ at Penn Station in Newark was a few ticket windows down at the end. I remember both the Liberty Street and Jersey City Terminals at Christmas times with Christmas trees and other decorations. I was there that night for the end. I rode the last outbound SEASHORE LINE train to E-Port and the caught the last round-trip of the NEWARK SHUTTLE. I them caught the last inbound train , No. 1436 to Jersey City and the last eastbound ferry. The CNJ Terminal in Jersey City still stands although it is no longer served by trains. Trains of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail Line now operates over portions of the former CNJ right-of way. Larry, RedbirdR33 4/28/07 |
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