Membership Meeting - October 2024 - CNJ, Elizabeth to Raritan

At our October meeting, we were joined by Tom Nemeth, Editor of Railpace Newsmagazine and longtime friend of Tri-State. Nemeth has been a prolific photographer and his presentation will focus on the CNJ mainline between Elizabeth and Raritan.
The CNJ mainline was among the earliest rail lines constructed in New Jersey. It grew to be multiple tracks and host to numerous daily through freights and local drills to serve lineside industries. There were also the CNJ’s commuter trains and the intercity passenger trains of the Reading and Baltimore & Ohio, the CNJ’s corporate parents. The Elizabeth to Raritan section was a busy stretch of railroad as is shown in Nemeth’s show.

[@HenrikSweden1]

great video ! love that Tony / red baron scheme on the engines. Thanks !

[@charlespaterson9714]

I grew up in Cranford and spent hours up on the passenger platform watching the freight and passenger runs go by. That was when they had 6 tracks although I rarely saw them use the outer tracks for anything but the Scoot.

[@dougow3061]

great video

[@norbkowa]

Hello I would like to know if anybody knows what is happening on old CNJ line in Cranford. WHen you drive GSP North and look towards the bridge you can see new sidings and rails are being installed behind the plastics company that was a customer and was getting train load until about 10 years ago. It was all overgrown but now its cleared up and new work is being done. I was just wondering what are they doing there?