Cape May County's Beach Railroads
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- Опубликовано: 29 мар 2022
- Cape May County in New Jersey is a scenic ocean-side city forming a portion of the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It's had a unique and rather detailed railroad history too. As interurban railroads began to make their mark within the area during the late 1870s, the larger mainline railroads were able to link Philadelphians with the scenic views of Cape May, New Jersey, with the interurbans providing local transport. The interurbans linking up with steamships also provided ease of transit into the city as well. However, Cape May's railroad history is probably most noted for the mysterious "ghost tracks" of Sunset Beach. Those ghost tracks once were host of industrial railroading activities parallel to the Delaware Bay near the Atlantic Ocean. Sand mining, munitions testing, and a magnesite plant were all part of the ghost tracks' history. In this video I take a brief look into the history of Cape May's railroads, and the general story of the city's ghost tracks.
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South Jersey has alot of weird and obscure railroad history, Cape May and the shore towns having some of the most unique services. Great video!
Like Point Pleasant's Traction railroad that grew and waned like a sine wave for 40yrs.
If you're ever in Cape May, there's still some remaining track in people's backyards on Broadway Street from when this railroad was operational.
Pretty cool video of the Cape May County’s Beach Railroads. This is like the Santa Cruz Big Trees & Pacific Railroad line that was formerly used for the Santa Cruz and Felton Railroad in 1875 as a 3-foot narrow gauge line, then the South Pacific Coast Railroad in 1876 (a year later), and the Southern Pacific in 1887 being converted to standard gauge.
The Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines had passenger train service into Cape May in 1968. I had a Summer 1968 Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines railroad timetable of passenger trains. Between Philadelphia & Atlantic City it had 8 daily trains, between Philadelphia & Cape May it had 4 trains & between Camden & Millville it had 2 trains. I lived in Elwood, New Jersey from Saturday, December 14,1963 to Saturday, June 21,1969.
Great video! Also, nice to see that the Pennsy had a steam tram at 0:34.
Yeah. It’s a cool Pennsylvania Railroad steam tram locomotive. There are some surviving American steam tram locomotives in preservation to this day.
Great Video! This is some of my local history! The tip of South Jersey (Cape May, Rio Grande, and Wildwood to name a few) all had really interesting railroad and traction history. This is the first video I've seen covering the topic. Really good job!
The Cape May seashore lines Is doing passenger service and the occasional freight service. Freight service goes from Tuckahoe NJ to the old Winslow junctio
Cape May hasn’t seen a train since 2012, when CMSL’s track was vandalized. Hopefully they fix the track in the coming years.
At least the Richland-Tuckahoe is still useable.
Sorry, no plans to fix it. Way to expensive and the funds are not their.
A New Jersey my self. I happy someone is talking about cape may
Same, South Jersey need more love
@@michaelkkrasting definitely, the north give us a bad reputation
I never new there were beach railroads. This is amazing! I'm starting to feel inspired by this.
It’s a good day when Amtrak guy uploads but now I’m 80% sure he saw my QNA comment cuz he had 2 Komi photos in it witch made it better
Good job!
Fantastic content Jared, as a fellow New Jerseyian it's wonderful to see the Railroad history of South Jersey receive the attention it deserves.
Same Matthew I've went there and every once in a while the tracks come out of the ground, Further up north was the CNJ's old Blue Comet route which parts of the line are now abandoned and in disrepair
This just makes me excited for the new Sonic movie coming out in 2 weeks, keep up the great vids bro!
Love this video, just goes to show the interesting history that might be lying under our feet and we just don't know it yet. Also the Komi-san gif at 2:27 was just perfect
Cool video. Glad I'm a subscriber
If you're in that area. You can fight lots if remaining railroad on Broadway Street in Cape May that was also not torn up to this day. The railroad are now in people's backyards and they use the remaining tracks to build sheds and other things. I'm not kidding.
i was wondering how viable the concept of a beach railroad would be, and now i know. thx 👍
On the thomas runaways video, you should’ve included the flying kipper. It’s one of the best crashes, and you can tell its a runaway when they realise henry isn’t going to stop in time to completely BRANNHBGVDCGVFCT the breakvan
I've seen the tracks before. Pretty cool looking.
Really good video! Only thing I would say is that there is no evidence that the sand plant rail line was ever used as a munitions testing ground.
Nice Video
This is pretty good
New Jersey Transit should restore rail service to Wildwood and Cape May, NJ
Sure thing and I want to bring back one of the Blue Comet steamers
The Wildwood line alone would cost over a 100 million to get back into service and add the Cape May line would add another 60 million because the bridge needs replaced. The return is not there so it will never happen.
I've been to Cape May but have never seen the tracks that popped up out on the sand, It was used for transporting freight and munitions before it closed in the 1930s.
If you're on Broadway Street. There's still some remaining track that can be seen from people's backyards.
Looking for information about my grandfather named Augustus Miller who was an engineer on a train that went from Ocean City to Cape May NJ. He lived in Sea Isle and was born in 1875. The train was called the Yellow something! Hoping to put this history together for my grandson!
You should do a history of the LIRR
Not only that New Jersey has a railroad on the beach but so does Florida, one was operated at Key Largo beach in Tampa
The moment I saw the title, I was like: “Trains? On the beach!?” In all seriousness, now knowing that there’s a beach with abandoned train tracks, I might one day return to New Jersey, and see if I can find them tracks!
Can you do a video on ocean city nj abandoned railroad?
2:28 komi is so bad at communication because she has *social anxiety,* but why?
Can you make a video on the Ocean City western plz
There’s nothing like coastal tracks
This railroad is interesting but also kinda
can confirm, it is indeed also kinda.
Could you make History of The Death Railway in Thailand please
yes
I'm surprised you didn't speak about the rail bikes that now run the old lines
We had something similar here on the Winthrop branch of this railroad en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston,_Revere_Beach_and_Lynn_Railroad
This is really cool. Sad that they didn’t survive
they kinda did lol
@@matthewwilson5019 true, just not in operable condition lol
@@davidmolin8944 yup lol
If you're ever on Broadway Street in Cape May, there is still remaining track that is now in people's backyards.
There's no reason to not have railroads running to the shore. It would be amazing. So many rails that still exist.
Always a good day whenever Jared uploads, am I right?
Eyo cape may, lighthouses, railroad societies, and npr for the credits.
This rail road used to run by my house
What happened to engines of Amtrak and New York Central ?
Those usually take a while to make. He gives us these mini documentaries to tide us over.
The New York Central actually ran here in New Jersey on what was once their old West Shore Line which terminated at Weehawken before the station was closed in the 50s but the mainline still used for freight only
The track are exposed now thanks to last week's coastal storm.
This is why NJ is the best RR state.
It not but it have a lot of history
This comment is biased.
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@@Robloxity_News I live in New Jersey
@@gamerfan8445 I used to. Better than Florida.
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