The same year, the PRR and the Reading merged their lines to Atlantic City and Shore points further south to Cape May, to form PRSL, the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines. The Reading Railroad effectively absorbed the CNJ in 1933.
That ushered in the Great Depression, which placed even a coach ticket beyond the means of many New Jerseyans. Only eight months after its life began, the stock market crashed. Looking back at its history, it appears that the magnificent train to the Playground at the Shore never really had a chance. The Sopranos: Bobby Baccalieri is shot dead by rival mafioso as he admires a vintage Lionel Blue Comet model train. Schirripa) is gunned down in a hobby shop by rival mobsters as he bargains for an antique Lionel Blue Comet set. A sixth-season episode of HBO’s The Sopranos is titled “The Blue Comet.” In the episode, toy train buff and mobster Bobby Baccalieri (played by Steven R. And it was even featured in a popular HBO television series. Retired NJT employee and New Jersey railroad historian Tom Gallo and fellow historian Joel Rosenbaum published, in 1985, The Seashore’s Finest Train, the first definitive history of the train. The Blue Comet has been the subject of several other books. Jersey is small in size but, for 12½ years through the depths of the Greatĭepression, it had a train that provided an experience available nowhere else. York had the Empire State Express and the 20th Century Limited on the New York Central. Limited and the state’s namesake train, the Pennsylvania Limited. Its four-track main line to Pittsburgh, home of its namesake train, the Broadway Few of the people who actually rode that train are alive today, and probably fewer still have vivid memories of the trips they took, but the fast and luxurious train that whisked riders through the countryside and the Pine Barrens of South Jersey to Atlantic City lives on in the DNA of New Jerseyans who remain tired of living in the shadows of New York and Pennsylvania, and who cling to memories of experiences of the past that their state could claim as its own. It was New Jersey’s all-time premier train, which set the standard for décor and service at reasonable prices during an era when not many people could afford even a coach ticket. That train was the Blue Comet on the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ). 22, history buffs and railfans from around New Jersey gathered in a repurposed and still-beautiful former railroad terminal to celebrate a train that, during its short life, was an iconic and luxurious one that the Garden State could call its own. The Blue Comet stops at Red Bank, N.J., on its inaugural run, Feb. ‘Young Professionals’ Conference: Fast Tracking Your Career.USDOT: An Additional $24MM for RIA Program Projects.Giulietti Joins TYLin as Director, Rail Transit Services.First Look: BART’s MERMEC Geometry Car in Action.Now On Line: Railway Age May 2023 Digital Edition.FTA: More Than $700MM to Replace Aging Passenger Railcars in Six States.Transit Briefs: Amtrak, Metrolinx, NYMTA, TransLink.New York State’s FY 2024 Budget Intended to ‘Save’ NYMTA.Transit Briefs: LA Metro, VIA Rail, SacRT.Take a Look: Amtrak’s B&P Tunnel Replacement Program.
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