The Big Little Railroad - 1948 CNJ promotional film
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ธ.ค. 2023
- A film produced for the Central Railroad's centenary year in 1948, showing how and where the railroad operates. All color footage, starting on the Northern end of the CRP with the Ashley Planes, down the Lehigh River Valley to Allentown, and towards the metropolitan area near Jersey City. All color footage during the transition era. This was reproduced on VHS in the late 1980s. Enjoy!
I really enjoy watching these old promotional reels. Makes me nostalgic for a time when I didn’t even exist yet.
VERY informative! Great that you found & posted this. Two notes: 1) the so-called "Central RR of PA" was an attempted dodge to avoid high NJ RR taxes, it was eventually ended in a court decision. 2) that featured bay bridge was the scene of an unfortunate "open-bridge" accident in 1958 in which a loaded passenger train ran thru a signal & plunged off the raised bridge into the bay, dozens of fatalities.
The bridge was also struck by a ship and reduced from four tracks to two. They were never able to recover the 2 damaged tracks due to the company's financial state at the time, and the bridge began removal only as 2012 as it was deemed a maritime navigational hazard.
LOVE these old promo films!
It was fun watching the coal hoppers unload at the coal docks south of the CNJ Jersey City passenger terminal. A hopper was pushed up the ramp to the unloading spot, the coal was dumped onto a barge and the empty hopper went down another ramp by gravity. The hopper went up a short switchback where it reversed direction, then rolled down through the spring switch and onto the yard tracks of empty hoppers. I almost missed my lunch break watching this process.
During the period of control by the Fisk family, the CNJ owned a small railroad that when from near Chestertown, MD, through Smyrna, DE to a place that would be called Woodland Beach, DE. The idea was to take shipping from the WM in Baltimore, ferry it up the bay to Chestertown, send it by rail to Woodland Beach and ferry it over to Bridgetown, NJ.
It lasted about three years. Then the Woodland Beach to Smyrna section was operated seasonally for produce traffic from the DelMarVa peninsular. Shipping it by boat to NYC. About a quarter mile of the track is still down in Claton, DE, it was used until the 1970's to service a cannery.
A short portion is still used by the Maryland and Delaware railroad out of MIllington, MD.
Outstanding footage. Thank you for posting this.
Excellent film showing Huber collery and Ashley plane cable road
Not called a cable railroad but called "inclined planes"
It sure is a pleasure to see this wonderful classic.
I love the Jersey Central!! Thank you so much for posting this!!
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Steam and Diesel on the Central of New Jersey Railroad.
What is that double headed diesel at 19:05?
Baldwin dual end cab. They had 3 of them, I think
Baldwin DR-6 "Double ender" they had two batches of 3 ( slightly different body styles ) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_DR-6
1:38 former Blue Comet pacific
It almost looks like her blue paint is peeking out from under the black too... hard to say if that's just the lighting. Shame none were saved.
@@PowerTrain611 I always wondered where one of the Pacifics would've ended up if the CNJ considered preservation. My guess is that it would've ended up in the hands of the URHS of NJ, Steamtown, or even Whippany.
@@rhin0pillz Steamtown would have been an awesome place to see a G3 running... Imagine recreating the Queen of the Valley!
@@PowerTrain611 If Cape May Seashore Lines had one of the pacifics, I would’ve loved to see it run down to Cape May