Cnj freight diagram book

Central railroad of new jersey 1940 freight car diagram book. Necessary supplements, revisions or corrections will be issued as required. Cnj books, jersey central railroad books, central railroad. The southern division once hosted 2 daily trains cnj symbols js1 south and sj2 north. Cnj books, jersey central railroad books, central railroad of new. Flush with cash after ww2, and not having purchased any new locomotives since 1930, the cnj looked hard at buying 4664 challenger type steam locomotives for freight engines, but decided to go with emd f3s instead. Freight diagram book index cnj freight diagram book index side note pages 54, 55, 70, 116, 118b, 121, 122, and added pages 57 to 64. There have been various pictures published of the ay91 train working up ararat grade during the late steam days, many by bob collins, as it. The first examples of cnj s finest steam freight power, the mikados, arrived in 1918.

This organization primarily operates in the deep sea domestic transportation of freight business industry within the water transportation sector. About half the pages features two diagrams to a page, the other half feature one diagram on a page. Cnj towers jersey central railroad historical society. Cnj logistics services, llc offers services that range from single shipment execution to complete network design and operation. I tried the clark nj show last week, but i was looking for something of a different size and shape than what i should have been looking. Alexandercasset i recently purchased a flags, diamonds and statues mag that had an article about the high bridge line including a map of the area you ask about, but i just moved my things home from college today. It was first crossed by the cnj locomotive lehigh with j. Central railroad of new jersey steam locomotive planbook. Some large erecting card drawings were available, but with the extreme reduction necessary to fit in this book, most of the fine lines burned out and did not show, or bled together into irregular black areas. More than 500 detailed freight car diagrams from the union pacific.

Alcos to allentown, by thomas a biery, the railroad press, 1998. See more ideas about train, railroad, model trains. This book shows regular through and local train serv ice with schedules, connections and classifications. Who makes scale cnj coaches to match my lionel cnj f units. Jersey city terminal jct, also sometimes called communipaw terminal because it was built along communipaw cove or central railroad of new jersey terminal, was the central railroad of new jerseys impressive station that sat on the hudson river waterfront across from downtown manhattan and new york city. Central railroad of new jersey 1940 freight car diagrams victor roseman. It was the first american railroad book ever written. Nj transportation chronology liberty historic railway. Many thanks to richard for giving us permission to post this information here. Click on a product line logo to request a catalog, click on the catalog cover to see the latest catalog for that product line. Looking to rid themselves of unprofitable branch lines via abandonment, a group of train aficionados and businessmen led by philadelphia attorney kenneth souser established steam trains, inc. Expected extensive coverage of freight car rosters, but 3050% of book centered on passenger equipment and 1520% concentrated on maintenance of way equipment, leaving little room for freight. One of the three observations for the blue comet was nj transits inspection car for a while and was painted in the disco stripe scheme.

The lehigh and new england railroad freight car diagram book freight cars. Listed below are the towers of the cnj broken down by line. The list and descriptions were complied by richard colletti, a former tower operator with the cnj. Cnj bronx terminal by tim warris added 21 new photos to the album. White in 1928, this train whisked passengers from communipaw terminal in jersey city to atlantic city, making the total trip from manhattan via. These are a cross between a track chart, station track diagram book, interlocking book, and automatic signal plan, all rolled into one, but many times better. By 1947, these cnj mikados had been reclassified m63. Looking to buy bill sheppards diagram book railroad. Penn central freight car directory and diagrams railfandepot. About cnj logistics services, llc our vision is to establish cnj logistics services, llc as the leader in providing creative logistics solutions that consistently exceed our customers expectations.

Central rail road of new jersey rolling stock photographic. Central railroad of new jersey 1940 freight car diagrams. Four years ago i sold a locomotive i no longer wanted, and with the extra cash i decided to buy something i normally wouldnt. Arrival of the final order in 1925, created a fleet of eightysix engines which dominated road freights through the balance of this volumes era while bumping camelback 480s, 280s and 460s into lesser assignments. Cnjlv color guide to freight and passenger equipment. Photo coverage of the lvrr and cnj, mostly in the late 1950s to early 1960s. Anthracite country color, by gerard bernet, railroad avenue enterprises, 1998. A 100% scale version of the cnj bronx terminal being recreated in ho scale. Contents include three in dex pages and 111 diagrams of freight cars. Cnj lv color guide to freight and passenger equipment craig bossler eastern steam pictorial. October 28, 2019 in 2007 i found a picture in the book where the rails meet the sea of. Lehigh and new england railroad and successors in color. Erics railroad car history catalog page 5 pullmanstandard freight car production including predecessors 2002 is a detailed, 164page listing of about 10,000 freight car orders from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Freight car diagram book we were fortunate to find a copy of the soo line w. A central railroad of new jersey m2s mikado brooks locomotive 1920 pulls a joint readingcnj freight. This was put together in 1974 with some pages taken from previous books those pages are marked 1967 and 1964. This is a scan of an original penn central freight car directory diagram book. This organization has been operating for approximately 8 years. The list is now split into books focusing on the cnj and books with some cnj content. This track forms one leg of a wye track 11 to track 10, track 10 to outer running track and outer running track to track 11 and will enable the crew to turn the locomotive.

Cnjlv color guide to freight and passenger equipment craig bossler eastern steam pictorial. Nss new castle district is part of nss lake division. Cnj books steam diesel freight cnj links practice cnj books most inprint and. A beautiful photo book featuring the work of bruce and arch kantner. Obviously they saw the diesel handwriting on the wall. Since this line was ctc see reply from zeke in 2004 in this thread, how did the dispatcher control a train that had taken the siding.

Shortly after starting on the bronx terminal build, i was contacted by paolo sforza, a modeler in the uk who is also working on building the cnj terminal. This diagram shows the duration of the paint schemes on different classes of diesel. Im likewise now pretty sure that cnj was the railroad that surprised the icc by ordering new camelbacks during the 19teens, but cant yet point to a specific date or class or road numbers, etc. We have been exchanging details about the terminal mostly him sending me stuff and has been kind enough to write a well informed. Includes index for hoppers, flat cars, gondolas, box cars, covered hoppers, stock cars, and cabin cars. Catasauqua crossroads of the anthracite railroads by joe yurko. They were running daily until the mid 1960s, when they became 6 trains a week, 3 south monday, wednesday and friday and 3 north tuesday, thursday and saturday. Cnjlv color guide to freight and passenger equipment, by craig t bossler.

The cnj still operated a pretty sizeable fleet of them into the early 1950s. The erie freight schedule from 1956 calls the through freights between susquehanna, pa and the cnjs ashley yard ay91 and ay78. The following three signal diagram books cover new yorks mta subway system in its entirety, and are among the best ever made. I understand that a book was written drawn of schematic track diagrams of the erie lackawana railroad, and i am not having much luck getting a copy. When, in the opinion of the division superin tendent, the volume of freight for any symbol war rants operation of extra trains, they should, so far. Looking closely at the track diagram above, you will notice a diagonal track connecting track 11 with track 10. Express book freight is located in kearny, new jersey.

This train is headed east, and is on its way to elizabethport. Mostly lirr records, prr legal department files on lirr, pennsylvania tunnel and terminal company files, hotel pennsylvania files, psny engineering and architectural drawings. Njdot 108 seat commuter coach, exbn 48 seat long distance leg rest. Welcome to the railroad commissary online railroad book catalog. The central railroad of new jersey historical journal 2002. Trains magazine offers railroad news, railroad industry insight, commentary on todays freight railroads, passenger service amtrak, locomotive technology, railroad preservation and history, railfan opportunities tourist railroads, fan trips, and great railroad photography.