Upload: NJT Secaucus Junction, Matawan, Hazlet, Little Falls and closed Great Notch

My trip through Secaucus on Wednesday for Senator Lautenberg’s Funeral Train inspired to finally make me write up his rail station and give my website all four of the major rail station hubs in North Jersey. So without further ado: Frank R. Lautenberg Secaucus Junction Rail Station (at Allied Junction)–(Rebuilt with 138 new photos) and a [...]

posted in New Jersey, Uncategorized by Jeremiah Cox

Senator Frank R. Lautenberg’s Funeral Train At His Station

I think the title tells all about my adventure today to stop at the Frank R. Lautenberg Secaucus Junction Station to pay my respects to a great public transportation leader as he was transferred from motorcade to train at his namesake station for a very short ceremony with the New Jersey Transit Police Honor Guard, and only his [...]

posted in New Jersey, Transit Adventures by Jeremiah Cox

Upload: The Amboys Train Stations, Historic and New with over 200 Photos

I finally got two more on the New Jersey side written (fun fact: ), both have historic station houses, one is untouched with low-level platforms, the other had a new island platform built and a modern overpass in 2009: Perth Amboy-(109 Photos) South Amboy-(136 Photos)–with its old and new platforms Enjoy!

posted in New Jersey by Jeremiah Cox

Upload: Short Hills, Millburn and Maplewood

This quick update I finished processing while on the train back from Syracuse, its the final three stops on the shared Gladstone Branch/Morristown Line that I visited last February: Maplewood-(79 Photos) Millburn-(43 Photos), the one non-historic stop on the entire line Short Hills-(33 Photos), the station house is a ticket office by day and restaurant [...]

posted in New Jersey by Jeremiah Cox

Starting the stations of the North Jersey Coast Line the Amboys to Hazlet to an AGR Points run home on a Regional and Keystone, beginning my To SYR via SPG trip

On Friday I’m making one of my regular trips to Syracuse to visit my grandmother. This time though I’m going a very unusual route via Springfield to finally ride the Lake Shore Limited through the Berkshires. I was able to plan this trip two weeks in advance to get the Northeast Regional 25% discount which [...]

posted in New Jersey, Transit Adventures by Jeremiah Cox

Upload: The Historic Six Lackawanna Stations in ‘The Oranges’ with over 300 photos

One of the most impressive grade separated in the 1910s 3 track railroads I know of is the ex-Lackawanna Main Line. This line still carries New Jersey Transit’s second busiest to the Northeast Corridor Morris & Essex Lines that consist of the Morristown Line and Gladstone branch away from Newark west. This update includes the [...]

posted in New Jersey by Jeremiah Cox

The Northern Montclair Line Electrified in 2002

Today’s Update is a continuation of yesterdays. It is of the station’s in northern Montclair (including two very nice historic station houses) that were originally on the Erie Railraod’s Greenwood Lake Line. They were electrified with the opening of the Montclair Connection in 2002: Montclair State University-(35 photos) Montclair Heights-(20 photos) Mountain Avenue-(20 photos) Upper [...]

posted in New Jersey by Jeremiah Cox

The Morris & Essex Lines Montclair Branch

Thought I would give this post a slightly confusing title for a decent reason. These 4 stations are the only stations still in operation (well Bay Street replaced the original Montclair Terminal in 1981 that still exists but your webmaster didn’t know about on his last trip there and needs to return) on the Montclair [...]

posted in New Jersey by Jeremiah Cox

In this update I’ve finally gotten the other rail station in Newark, Newark-Broad Street Station up on the web: Lackawanna’s Broad Street Train Station-(98 Photos)     I also rebuilt my section for the new (2006) downtown Newark Light Rail Extension, built to connect Newark’s two train stations with quite a lot of new photos: Broad [...]

posted in New Jersey by Jeremiah Cox

The Relaunched Hudson-Bergen Light Rail is Here!

As part of writing PATH and Hoboken I realized it was time to finally make the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail section up to my current standards and finally upload all my Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Photos that were in the acrive. Each station now also has a full detailed description and history when interesting. New Homepage with [...]

posted in New Jersey by Jeremiah Cox