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)

X-ray of a Tie. A perfectly rotted tie shows what happens to the wood when a spike is driven into it. While clearing the CNJ Freehold Branch for the Henry Hudson Trail many relics we... (more)

Another visible part of the CNJ Freehold Branch is this short section of track to the south of Station Road in Wickatunk. This was the location of the Wickatunk depot until 1954, the end of passen... (more)

The rails in the Stillwell Avenue crossing in Matawan is one of the few remaining evidence of the CNJ Freehold Branch. This is the northern terminus of the southern section of the Henry Hudson Tra... (more)

Dormant since 1984, the [first] Lake Matawan Trestle was originally built by the Freehold and Atlantic Highlands Railroad in 1877 which later came under ownership of the CNJ and ultimately, Conrai... (more)

Although it has been abandoned since 1984 the Lake Matawan Trestle still stands [not exactly straight] but stands nonetheless, complete with ties, rails and spikes.

Many remains of the Jersey Central Railroad still exist, over thirty years since it was absorbed into Conrail. This bridge, spanning the PRR tracks of Newark's Penn Station, once carried CNJ trai... (more)