Port Reading Secondary
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The Port Reading Secondary, also known as the Port Reading Branch, is a railway line in New Jersey. It runs {{convert|16.0|mi}} from a junction with the Lehigh Line in Bound Brook, New Jersey, to Port Reading, New Jersey, on the Arthur Kill. Originally built by the Port Reading Railroad and part of the Reading Company system, today the line belongs to Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO).
Route
The line diverges from the Lehigh Line (formerly the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad) at CP Bound Brook in Bound Brook, New Jersey. From there it proceeds east to Port Reading, New Jersey, on the Arthur Kill. The line connects with the Chemical Coast Secondary in Port Reading, just short of the yard there.{{Cite web | url=http://www.multimodalways.org/docs/railroads/companies/CR/CR%20ETTs/CSA%20ETT%20%2310%207-1-2013.pdf | title=Conrail Timetable Number 10 | date=July 1, 2013 | accessdate=June 25, 2022 | publisher=Conrail Shared Assets Operations | pages=64–65}}
History
The Port Reading Railroad was founded in 1890 by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad to build a line east from the existing New York Branch to a point on the Atlantic coast, where it would establish a new port.{{sfnp|Troeger|McEwen|2002|p=117}} The line, {{convert|19.645|mi}} long, opened in September 1892. The western end connected with the New York Branch at Port Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey, on the west side of the Raritan River.{{sfnp|ICC|1931|p=705}}
The Philadelphia and Reading, and later the Reading Company, controlled the Port Reading Railroad and the company was never merged into the corporate parent.{{sfnp|USRA|1975|p=227}} On the Reading's final bankruptcy in 1976 the line was conveyed to Conrail.{{sfnp|USRA|1975|p=281}} Conrail rationalized the trackage around Bound Brook, making a new connection between the former Lehigh Valley main line and the Port Reading line near Bound Brook station, and abandoning the line west of there. When Conrail was split between CSX and the Norfolk Southern Railway in 1999, the Port Reading Secondary remained with Conrail as part of Conrail Shared Assets Operations.{{Cite web |date=July 23, 1998 |title=CSX CORPORATION AND CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC., NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION AND NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY--CONTROL AND OPERATING LEASES/AGREEMENTS--CONRAIL INC. AND CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORPORATION |url=http://stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/402b4e9fcad7829285256f7b006f787a/11ad450113a64dea8525663c004c5641?OpenDocument |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060425191833/http://stb.dot.gov/Decisions/readingroom.nsf/402b4e9fcad7829285256f7b006f787a/11ad450113a64dea8525663c004c5641?OpenDocument |archive-date=April 25, 2006 |access-date=June 26, 2022 |website=Surface Transportation Board}}
Notes
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References
- {{Cite web |author=Interstate Commerce Commission |date=1931 |title=Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States. Valuation reports |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gsMFAAAAIAAJ |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en | ref={{harvid|ICC|1931}}}}
- {{cite book | last1=Troeger | first1=Virginia B. | last2=McEwen | first2=Robert James | title=Woodbridge: New Jersey's Oldest Township | publisher=Arcadia Publishing | date=2002 | isbn=978-0-7385-2394-1 | location=Charleston, South Carolina}}
- {{cite book | title=Final system plan for restructuring railroads in the Northeast and Midwest region pursuant to the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 | year=1975 | author=United States Railway Association | author-link=United States Railway Association | location=Washington, DC | url=http://multimodalways.org/docs/govts/federal/executive/Agencies/DOT/USRA/FSP/FSP%20VI.pdf | oclc=2889148 | volume=1 | ref={{Harvid|USRA|1975}} }}
Category:Railway lines opened in 1892