New Jersey Shore Line Railroad
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The New Jersey Shore Line Railroad was part of the
County line.The company was organized on February 25, 1886, and chartered March 2, 1886 to build a railroad from a point in
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. In 1910, .84 miles (1.35 km) of track were built from the West Shore Railroad Weehawken yards midway through Guttenberg north to the line with Bergen County
. It opened for traffic on March 14, 1911, with the first cars passing over it on May 16, 1911. The rest of the route was never built.
The company was absorbed into the
Norfolk Southern; it was part of their River Line
before it was abandoned.
See also
- Timeline of Jersey City area railroads
References
- ^ Rossiter, E. V. W. (December 20, 1904). "Notice of Annual Meetings". The Observer of Hudson County. p. 11. Retrieved December 11, 2023.
- ^ Documents of the One Hundredth and Eleventh Legislature of the State of New Jersey. Vol. 1. MacCrellish & Quigley. 1887. p. 176.
- ^ a b Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1930. p. 759.