	September 16, 2007

Inventory of NJ's Vital Rail Rights of Way

The following lists, compiled by NJ-ARP, show rail rights of way that should be protected as rail rights of way free from any encroachment. All these must be shown on county and municipal maps as reserved for future rail use.

**Class I Mainline Freight Lines**
Flag	Route
CSX	Jersey City to the New York state line at Northvale (River Line)
NS	to the Pennsylvania state line at Phillipsburg
CSX	to the Pennsylvania state line at West Trenton
CRSA	Manville to Jersey City via Aldene

**New Jersey Transit Rail Operations**
Flag	Route
PVL	Pascack Jct. to the New York state line at Montvale
ERIE	Hoboken via Paterson to the New York state line at Mahwah
ERIE	Secaucus Jct. to the Main Line at Ridgewood Jct.
DLW	Hoboken via Summit to Hackettstown
DLW	Newark Denville to via Mountain View
PRR	New York (Penn Station) to the Pennsylvania state line at Trenton
PRR	Princeton Jct. to Princeton
NJCL	Rahway to Bay Head Jct.
PRR	Trenton to Camden shared with CRSA and with South Jersey Light Rail
PRSL	Philadelphia to Atlantic City

**Conrail Shared Assets (CRSA)**
Flag	Route
RDG	Bound Brook to Port Reading
NRRNJ	Jersey City to New York state line at Northvale (Northern Branch)
Terminal	Jersey City, Bayonne, Ironbound, Newark Bay drawbridge
ERIE	Montclair Croxton also for additional Class 1 Access west of Hack draw to Paterson via Newark & Nutley
DLW	Harrison to Lyndhurst
CNJ	Brill's Jct., Elizabethport, Perth Amboy with double track restored at pinch point with NJ Turnpike
PRR	South Amboy to north of Hightstown r/w break
PRR	Monmouth Jct. via Jamesburg to Farmingdale
C&A	Bordentown to south of Hightstown r/w break
CNJ	Red Bank, Lakehurst, Toms River
PRSL	Camden to Winslow Jct. via Stratford
RRRR	Gillespie to south side of New Brunswick
PRSL	Camden to Pemberton with spur to Fort Dix complex
PRSL	Camden to Carney's Point
PRSL	Winslow Jct. to Beaseley's Point
PRSL	Camden to Swedesboro
DLW	Hackettstown to state line at Phillipsburg

**New Jersey Shortline Railroads**
Flag	Route
NYSW	North Bergen to New York state line at Vernon
NYSW	Prospect Street to Lodi and Passaic Jct. to Garfield
M&E	Wharton to Bartley and Wharton to Succasunna
BRW	Three Bridges to lines Lambertville; Switching lines at Manville, Raritan Center, Bayonne
BD	Phillipsburg to Carpentersville
SMS	Bridgeport area
W&W	Winslow Jct. to Maurice River via Bridgeton
SRRNJ	Swedesboro to Salem
W&W	Millville TO Leesville via Manumuskin Jct.
CMSL	Tuckahoe to Cape May
NYGL	Garfield to Dundee

These shortlines are independent operations competing with trucks, which are heavily subsidized. It is imperative their earnings be protected to they can bring new business to New Jersey.

**Rights of Way to be Preserved**
Flag	Route
DLW	Cutoff from Port Morris Jct. TO Slateford Jct. as local, Amtrak to the west and future Class 1 use.
WN	Wharton to Green Pond Jct.
LHR-PRR	Sparta Jct. to Phillipsburg
NYSW-DLW	Sparta Jct. via Hyper Humus to Branchville
MHM	Wharton to Mt. Hope
ERIE	Mountain View to Pompton Jct.
CNJ	High Bridge to Bartley and M&E
CNJ	High Bridge to Phillipsburg
ERIE	Great Notch to Roseland
ERIE	Forest Hill to West Orange
NYSW	Little Ferry via Edgewater Tunnel to Weehawken
PSCT	Edgewater to Hackensack via r/w - mostly intact
RVRR	Cranford to Summit
SIRR	Cranford to New York state line on AK bridge to Staten Island
PRR	Carpentersville to Trenton along Delaware River
CNJ	Lakehurst to Winslow Jct.
CNJ	Freehold-Aberdeen-Highlands as DLRT
PRR	Pemberton to Toms River
CNJ/TUCK	Toms River-Barnegat-Tuckerton as DLRT
PRSL	Pleasantville to Newfield
PRSL	Manumuskin Jct. to Woodbine
PRSL	Wildwood Jct. to Wildwood
PRSL	Tuckahoe to Ocean City (full length of island)
PSCT	Bayway to Metuchen
LV	South Plainfield to Perth Amboy
PSCT	Milltown Jct. to Trenton Jct.
NJS	Red Bank to Port Monmouth
DLW	Oxford via Washington to Hampton
CNJ	Somerville to Three Bridges
CNJ	Cranford to Elizabethport
RDG	Bound Brook Jct. (CNJ/RDG) to Manville

These lines have future use as freight, passenger or light rail corridors connecting viable demographic points. They must not be allowed further encroachment.

These files were created by Bob Scheurle.