Central Railroad of New Jersey 113 leads the first Santa train of the year into the well-decorated Minersville station on a dreary December day.

A Central of New Jersey Railroad survivor - built in 1894, this station is located in Elizabeth, NJ and was once host to the Central of New Jersey Railroad, the Reading and B&O trains but saw its... (more)

A Central of New Jersey Railroad survivor sits rather hidden and out of sight along a long abandoned 4 track main through Elizabeth, NJ. Where this freight house sits, the CNJ once had a small ya... (more)

Laboring here in a relentless drizzle is about the biggest 0-6-0 that anyone could ever build, dwarfing the pacing pickup truck along Railroad Street.

The impressive CNJ 0-6-0 No. 113, panned crossing Beckville Road. The "6S46" on the side of the cab signifies its railroad classification- "6-wheeled Switcher, 46,000 pounds tracti... (more)

For over thirty years, before the Reading & Northern came to town, George Hart’s Rail Tours, Inc. provided excursions out of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Here passengers prepare to board a train pu... (more)

Seen high above the Little Schuylkill River valley, CNJ RS3 1554 pulls an excursion train over the high bridge at Hometown, Pennsylvania.

After serving the Black River & Western for a decade, former Jersey Central RS3 1554 was acquired by the Hawk Mountain Chapter, NRHS and restored to its original appearance. The RS3 spent some tim... (more)

Before It Was Famous

Many photos of Jersey Central RS3 1554 have appeared on this site as is serves the Delaware-Lackawanna. Here the 1953 Alco is in its original paint on the rail... (more)

Right behind the Red Baron on the previous train, CNJ SD40 3066 in the standard blue paint leads a train off the CNJ and onto the Reading toward Philadelphia. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

My father and I were spending the morning at the Bound Brook station when this westbound with the "Red Baron" leading passed through. We raced out to Bridgewater to photograph the train... (more)

A CNJ westbound with RS3 1548 - GP7 1526 - RS3 1549 storms through Bound Brook station. As usual, I was out with my father this day, and seem suitably impressed with the passing train. R.T. Stein... (more)

A pair of Jersey Central RS-3s working a switch job at the big CNJ/RDG yard in Allentown, PA, attach themselves to the rear of a freight. I don't remember at this point whether they were putting i... (more)

The CNJ took ownership of the Southern Division line in 1879. At its peak the line ran from Red Bank NJ all the way down to Bay Side on the Delaware Bay. The line was used for both freight and pas... (more)

A Jersey Central GP40P pokes its nose out from under the trainshed of Newark's Penn Station as it departs with an outbound train whose first car is a private commuter club. The coming of Conrail ... (more)