A Jersey Central GP40 has arrived from Bay Head to assist in the clean up. The truck loaded with sheet rock is parked on John Guire Dr. I believe that is the original Guire hardware store buildin... (more)

A lengthy Jersey Central commuter train has just departed the railroad's Harrison, NJ, coach yard and is on its way across the river to Newark's Penn Station, where it will pick up a load of rush ... (more)

The Jersey Central owned thirteen six-axle Alco RSD4s, and a regular assignment for a pair of them in later years was the hump switcher job at the CNJ/RDG Allentown, PA, yard. CNJ 1611-1608 paused... (more)

The CNJ 56D (actually an ex-BAR unit) is heading west on the Nesquehoning Branch with a fall foliage special.

A pair of Jersey Central GP7s and a string of heavyweight coaches make up an evening commuter train ready to board passengers under the trainshed of Newark's Penn Station. Conrail came in three mo... (more)

A Jersey Central freight bound from Scranton to Jersey City rolls east through Raritan, NJ, on a winter morning. One of CNJ's own SD35s fronts an SD40 leased from parent Baltimore & Ohio amid a po... (more)

The CNJ 113 is all dressed up to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the first recorded use of anthracite coal in 1768; note the red "250" diamond-shaped number plate. It's charging pa... (more)

The CNJ 113 is dressed up to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the first recorded use of anthracite coal in 1768; note the red "250" diamond-shaped number plate and sign above the pil... (more)

During Steamtown's Railfest weekend, Delaware Lackawanna owned CNJ RS-3 1554 was used to power the Scranton Limited trains. Here, the train in close to the outer yard limits, being between the Ma... (more)

A CNJ survivor and Scranton landmark - built in 1891 at the top of a switchback, this freight house served as the Western most terminus for the railroad originating in Jersey City. An equally impr... (more)

We are at or near the highest point (elev. 1676') on the Jersey Central (CNJ). The EMD SD35s with a westbound freight have just met a Lehigh Valley eastbound, and are beginning the steep descent... (more)

Jersey Central 2505, one of the railroad's dozen SD35s, posed at the Bethlehem, PA, engine terminal shared by the CNJ and Reading. The dust probably came from a recent assignment on one of the ra... (more)

It's a beautiful summer day in the Communipaw freight yards. Central Railroad Company of New Jersey had leased a group of Fairbanks-Morse switchers from the Baltimore & Ohio, one of which basks in... (more)

The train shed at the former CNJ Communipaw Train Station last saw service in 1967, when the last passenger train departed the facility. The station itself has be restored and is part of the Liber... (more)

The former Central Railroad of New Jersey's eastbound station building in Elizabeth, N.J. has housed various restaurants since the termination of passenger service in 1978. The clock tower is stil... (more)