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    The Raritan River Freight Station is the only surviving station of the Raritan River Railroad and is located in Milltown, New Jersey. It is privately owned...
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  • served both passengers and freight in its heyday and operated profitably throughout much of its existence. The Raritan River was absorbed into Conrail...
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    either leased for freight/tourist service, interim rail trail use, or remain derelict: Harrison-Kingsland Branch: derelict Raritan Valley Line: High Bridge-Bloomsbury:...
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    Delaware and Raritan Canal (D&R Canal) is a canal in central New Jersey, built in the 1830s, that connects the Delaware River to the Raritan River. It was...
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  • Thumbnail for Phillipsburg Union Station
    An extension of New Jersey Transit Rail Operations Raritan Valley Line from High Bridge station through Glen Gardner, Hampton, Bloomsbury/Bethlehem,...
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    abandoned the building in 1963. The station building still stands and is a contributing property of the Raritan–Readington South Branch Historic District...
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    life as the Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad Company (R&DB), in March 1854. The R&DB was chartered to construct a railroad from the Raritan Bay to Cape...
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    competition in 1941. Also in 1929 CNJ purchased a 30 percent interest in the Raritan River Railroad, a 12-mile (19 km) short line from South Amboy to New Brunswick...
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    Brook is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Bound Brook, New Jersey. The station building on the north side of the tracks...
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    Delaware system, which also includes the newly formed Delaware and Raritan River Railroad out of Jamesburg, New Jersey. In 2004, the New York, Susquehanna...
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    Ken Lockwood Gorge Bridge (category Bridges over the Raritan River)
    1935 and the last freight service in 1976. View looking west View looking northeast View from the bridge of the South Branch Raritan River gorge List of crossings...
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  • Thumbnail for Annandale station
    Annandale is the penultimate station heading westbound on New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line, located in the Annandale section of Clinton Township...
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  • Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Freight Station Raritan River Freight Station "Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource". National Park...
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    Gladstone while crossing over the North Branch Raritan River and under Peapack Road. Peapack station is next at the crossing at Holland Avenue. The line...
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    12 square miles (3,100 ha) on the Raritan River, near New Brunswick, in what was then officially known as Raritan Township (later changed to Edison)...
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    platforms with the station building on the eastbound side and a brick waiting house on the westbound track. An old freight station is on the eastbound...
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    Somerville is a NJ Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, located south of the downtown center of Somerville, in Somerset County, New Jersey...
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  • Operations (CSAO) from South Amboy to Red Bank, and the Delaware and Raritan River Railroad (DRR), a subsidiary of Chesapeake and Delaware, LLC, between...
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  • Conrail Shared Assets Operations (category Non-operating common carrier freight railroads in the United States)
    Bonhamtown Branch, runs from NEC south of Metuchen Station to Raritan Center, interchanges with Raritan Central Railway at Metuchen Yard. The New Jersey...
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    Line: Kearny Connection–New York Raritan Valley Line: Hunter Connection–New York Atlantic City Line: 30th Street Station–Frankford Junction Trenton Line:...
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    over the North Jersey Coast Line to interchange with the Delaware and Raritan River Railroad in Red Bank. The North Jersey Coast Line has five movable bridges...
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  • largely to Federal railroad control; Emergency freight is routed through New York Penn Station and the Hudson River tunnels by the USRA to relieve congestion;...
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    above the South Branch Raritan River. In April 1885, the bridge collapsed as a train was going over it, sending several freight cars and at least one locomotive...
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  • to maintain a freight station on River Street in Newark, immediately west of the new main line and the Market Street passenger station. The elevation...
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  • Thumbnail for Hazlet, New Jersey
    U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is located near the Raritan Bay within the Raritan Valley region. It is located in the New York Metropolitan Area...
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    Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO) and operated by the Delaware and Raritan River Railroad (DRR), a subsidiary of Chesapeake and Delaware, LLC. The active...
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  • the Class I railroads that the railroad became part of, if any. "REG - Raritan Central - Edison, New Jersey". Hilton, George W. (1990). American Narrow...
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    Line (Stations in New York operated under a contract with Metro-North Railroad) Port Jervis Line (under a contract with Metro-North Railroad) Raritan Valley...
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    Branch of the Raritan River fished and farmed. There was a Native American trail that went along the South Branch of the Raritan River (Philhower 1924)...
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    Titusville, New Jersey (category New Jersey populated places on the Delaware River)
    the Delaware River with stairwells connecting the village to private docks on the river. The Feeder Canal for the Delaware and Raritan Canal runs parallel...
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