2:09 that’s actually Utica Ave. in Westmont

thank you so much i grew up in Wenonah and never knew any of this. i remember my father was helping with rennovating the train station but i was too young to really understand what that was all about. man this presentation is not only fascinating but it makes me homesick. I'm not in town so my opinions on the controversial modern train and station won't matter to anyone; personally i believe it would be a blight on a charming jewel. it would be like running a tesla cybertruck in the kentucky derby.

If you're interested Harold Duncan is buried in the Princeton Cemetery at Princeton New Jersey he died in 1974

Thank you!!!

Thanks a million for this video and your dedication to the rich history. I got to meet Mike N2ICV up at Scranton for the 35th anniversary Trolley museum meet up.

My grandfather, Earl G. Harrison was in charge of the P.O.W. camps as well as the internment camps with incarcerated Japaneses Americans. He was Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization for both FDR and Pres. Truman and Dean of the University of Penn. Law School. Our family has photos he took of some of the camps he visited. An interesting Historic note, the Japanese Americans ran their camps Democratically while Nazism prevailed inside the German camps.

Excellent program, thank you very much for such an accurate historical presentation.

The CNJ, Reading and the B&ORR were at the Terminal at Communipaw Ave, Jersey City , NJ

Very interesting! I’ve only seen a few videos talking about German POWs in Britain. I’ve never seen any about them in America. The logistics about how POW were transported in US was new.

VERY INTERESTING! MY FAVORITE STORY ABOUT THE WW2 GERMAN POW STORY IS THE ONE OF AN GERMAN POW FOUND HIMSELF IN WYOMING WHILE IN TRANSIT ON THE UNION PACIFIC. THEY WERE STOPPED AT AN DEPOT FOR LUNCH BREAK AND WHILE THERE , ONE OF THE BIG BOY LOCOMOTIVES ROLLED BY WITH AN LARGE FREIGHT! HE WAS QUITE SHOCKED AT THE SIGHT, AND THEN FIGURED, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEAT AN COUNTRY THAT COULD BUILD SUCH LOCOMOTIVES!!

I'm glad America is good, America is always good....

Consider me Subscribed! I live in North Bergen NJ. I live nearby the Railroad Tracks near 1 and 9. What an awsome subject WW2! We still have plenty of veterans and/or wives . Theyre way into their nineties, I am greatly interested in WW2 as I've gotten older. The era has always captivated me.

From 1943-1949, I caught the Paoli local train to attend school in Wynnewood, PA. I know Paoli ! 😮

Folks this was how WW2 was won the mighty mite of American power !

Correction : The P&H Branch into Harsimus Yard and the tracks on the Embankment were electrified by the late 1930's.

Excellent Presentation. Very well prepared and spoken. I learned alot. I wonder, was Gettysburg used in WW2, as well as WW1 for a prison camp too? Thanks Scott

Some interesting detail, not much about the human experience of guards & guarded (possibly not known or recorded for the specific example detailed). Delivery by the narrator is clear enough but in a somewhat ponderous fashion & with a rather punctiliously detailed style. Thanks anyway

interesting and informative!! According to his WW2 draft card, my grandpa lived in Harlem and worked for the Penn. RR Co at Princeton Junction in 1942. The 1940s census listed my grandpa as a waiter for a catering company. I'm wondering if he worked in the parlor cars 25:35 for the railroads based on his previous experience. Is there any way to find out for sure? Fun Fact: in the early 2000s I worked part-time at a USPS processing facility while completing my undergrad at Rutgers. I took the train from New Brunswick to Princeton Junction. I didn't learn until decades later that my grandpa also traveled to Princeton Junction for work.

Can someone kindly identify who the presenter is?

Did any of you guys know my uncle? Eddie Schlitz.... Engineer on the Pensy PC and Conrail.

Can't get enough of the Reading, thanks for sharing!!!

Russ Sharp has an encyclopedic knowledge of the world railways and he knows exactly how each culture works from a business perspective. This was a great presentation, but you should have included a photo of Russ. Mr. Sharp is one very fascinating man. I know this is a family friendly site, but I have to ask. Russ didn't have a woman in every port, but did he possibly have one in every rail station? I spent five years working in foreign lands in my youth four decades ago. My work confined me to Asia and Europe.

Comprehensive program! Glad you had all those shots from the old PRR Pemberton line, I grew up in the Moorestown-Mt Laurel area & saw outbound commuter trains sometimes, I recall one stopping at Masonville station (1 loco, single coach).

Thank you for the upload. I love the pictures of the Newtown interlocking. I used to take the train from the Reading terminal to Newtown on the RDC'S ,but I can't remember if the interlocking tower was still there, I rode the Newtown train in it's last year's late 70s early 80s.

The warehouse is still there in Cedarville at 54:14

If you do not have the money to fix things you sell bonds

Boy lots of pipeline and other line income from the right of way! It makes money without trains!

Im surprised nobody mentioned it, but that coach on the left hand side at 24:47 is ex-Blue Comet car 1176 "Winnecke." It was used as a locker room there in Red Bank until they scrapped it in the 80s. Parts of it went to good use in the restoration of Black River and Western's coach number 1009. Looks like it was in really sad shape here. What an unceremonious end for what was once a luxurious car. Looking at it, you'd never even recognize it as a former Blue Comet car.

That's pretty cool!! Grew up in Cumberland county! WW is my favorite short line.

At time Stamp 51:51 that picture is taken from the N36th street Bridge in Pennsauken. The Bridge in the background is the River road overpass. The tracks on the right have been removed and the River line 36th street station and parking lot currently stands

Neat! Great pics and no graffiti in sight!

I loved the stories! I had some similar stories of throttle time and cab rides that I will never forget, all over the country and overseas.. Great photos and history. Thank you.

View of Logan Station brings back wonderful memories. I grew up in Logan late 60s and 70s near Logan Station used to hangout there many of times watching freights and commuter trains, also rode the train to Reading terminal many times.

Thank you! These are some of the few photos I've seen of/in Newfield. Is there another collection with more?

That last shot of the Conrail Olympic Trials unit is really great! I have that unit in HO scale made by Scaletrains and had seen some of Steve's photos in a book of his I have about South Jersey trains. This was a wonderful little photo presentation.

Great collection and presentation! One minor thing: The Manahawkin station was on the Tuckerton Railroad. CNJ never went south of Barnegat.

I'd only ever read of P-RSL a ½-handful of times, it's really nice to sse a great number of shots of all kinds showing some of its operations - it's a nice little line (or was...)! Their GP38s are interesting, if you look at 40:08, you can better see that the cab's center part is extended out of the face of the cab, a bit. What was that about?

back when the cape may rescue squad was alive, we had a call to the magnesite plant, a worked was injured in one of the tubes, we both did want to get in the tube, coworkers extracted him, and we took him to burdette.

Boring

I don't believe it!! Pictures from Forked River and along the Barnegat Branch!!! I've had such a hard time trying to find pictures of that line! Thank you so much for uploading!

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On the Brown tower track diagram, I think that the Clementon branch with the double track curve is upper center, and the single track branch, far right, goes to Grenloch. Originally, both branches crossed the West Jersey & Seashore RR to get to their own waterfront terminals.

These shots are fantastic, photos look like they could have been taken yesterday

The guys on the P-RSL didn't call it a caboose. They called it a Hack. Great photos. Brings back memories. But I'm really getting old now. I'll be 80 on my next birthday, if I live to see it.

I didn't know the PATCO was the same gauge as PRSL/Conrail

Was The Morristown & Eire Railroad ever affiliated with these other Railroads that ran parallel to The New Jersey Transit Commuter Train and also Amtrak?,0:33

Awesomeness thanks

Great Stuff Dave , kudos to all

GG1 4935 was not restored to the tuscan color as you stated . It was done up in green . 4877 was restored to tuscan , a color it never was when Pennsy had it.

nice old pics!