CNJ, B&O & Reading Jersey City to Belle Mead, New Jersey
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2024
- Includes scenes of B&O's bus service between Manhattan and the Jersey Central Terminal. The B&O, Reading, and CNJ all used the Jersey Central's terminal in the Communipaw section of Jersey City, now part of Liberty State Park. B&O passenger trains diverged to the Reading at Bound Brook. B&O service to New York ended in 1958.
For more information on B&O's bus service, check out this page. railroad.net/b-amp-o-bus-serv...
If you'd like to bypass the bus and ferry scenes, skip ahead to 8:22.
RK tower seen at 21:45 was located at Bound Brook.
What a proud railroad each of them was.
Clothesline strung from the 2nd floor of Manville station. Love it.
Wow. It’s amazing to see these railroads before their decline. So much of this is gone now.
I saw a station sign for West Side Story and it came out in 1957. I would have loved to live in the late 40s to early 60s. I could have rode trains everywhere!
My playground in the 1970s as well as when I was a kid used to go on the ferry with my uncle all the time later with crab and fish and I would investigate that whole building and go out on those pairs into the motor rooms I have a lot of fond memories a lot there was so much more that's missing especially that copper shed that was up you have to be inside of it to experience it❤
Very nice video footage! Absolutely love the vintage B&O railroad scenes from the 1950’s! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🚂🚂🚂🚂
Thank you for posting this, I loved it! I don't remember the Elizabeth Port station (being open) but do remember wondering as a kid in the early 70's why it was there and not open. I currently live in Roselle and would have loved to have seen that station as well as my hometown Plainfield's three stations. I honestly think putting more commuter railroads back in service would help out tremendously!
It's fun to speculate "what might have been" had the B&O managed to tunnel into Manhattan during the Loree years.
Bound Brook NJ was a Train watching hotspot back in the days
Wow, that was great! Old cars, buses, freight cars RDC's etc. Nice thanks for sharing! (Dave).
Thanks for posting, the train scene in the NYC-NJ area has always been fascinating to me...
I have really been enjoying these vintage videos of trains in the NYC - NJ area! Keep them coming! Thank you.
Thank you for all your historical postings of our great railroads. Believe us they are appreciated more than you might know. 🇺🇸
Awesome Footage
Thank you. Amazing how much better today's cameras are. The trip down memory lane was wonderful.
outstanding footage :)
With the PRR freezing B&O after the war from using Penn. Station. The costs to run Bus/ Ferry service was a loser for B&O to NYC, not to mention it took longer for passengers to get too and from trains in NJ vs. 34th.
Excellent footage here, rare! Before my time. Frankly I don't see how that bus-ferry access would have held up in the later Metroliner era.
It didn't hold up very well after the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels were completed.
Now I have some idea about the colors and how proud they were before central New Jersey went to bankruptcy and also the reading. Had the staggers ACT have been enacted in 1955 those railroads would still be around today
The Government didn't want the Industry to compete with Cars and Trucks
Great video !
OUTSTANDING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's a real shame what happened to the line through Belle Mead, I pass the old station house everyday on my commute. Trains are somewhat rare nowadays on the now single tracked line, it's an extreme downgrade from when the line was tripletracked with commuter service at all.
Excellent work all around. What software is used to digitize the 8mm film?
A Retro-8 Pro transfer machine from MovieStuff, with quite a bit of (visual) cleanup with Avisynth. Off hand I don't remember the name of the proprietary software that came with the Retro-8, but that's what was used to scan the film.
Back when America was great.
The station at Belle Mead is really dilapidated these days.
So I'm guessing this was 1954 to 56-ish?
There was a billboard for West Side Story at Elizabethport, which came out in 1957.