Freight and Passenger Rolling Stock of the CNJ
THIS PAGE TO BE FURTHER DEVELOPED
Passenger roster
The Fallen Flags CNJ page has a superb table of the 1944
Central of New Jersey passenger roster supplied by Tom Gardner.
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Freight Stock (Mauch Chunk)
Coal
Anthracite for home heating from NE Pennsylvania.
Carried by
CNJ
Delaware and Hudson
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Lehigh Valley
Reading
Pennsylvania
Bituminous coal for mills, factories etc from W Pennsylvania, Maryland, West
Virginia.
Carried by
Baltimore and Ohio
New York Central
Western Maryland
Pennsylvania
Do NOT use other coal carriers such as Chesapeake and Ohio, Virginian, Norfolk
and Western, Louisville and Nashville or Illinois Central.
Boxcars
Almost any can be used but expect more from the east than the west.
Reefers
Produce - Use any company in small numbers delivering goods. Nothing was grown locally for
dispatch.
Fruit Growers Express (FGE)
Merchant Dispatch Transport (MDT)
Pacific Fruit Express (PFE)
Western Fruit Express (WFE)
Meat - Use wagonloads only, delivering to local distributors
such as
Swift
Armour
Wilson
Beer, bananas, groceries - all delivered in wagonloads from east coast ports
& New York etc.
From: Northern Vermont Railroad by Dwight Smith
Model Railroader, July 2002
Paul Rees
10 October 2002
Hoppers
I believe that CNJ had USRA twin hoppers. These can be represented nicely
by the Accurail car. I'm not sure of detail changes, if any, that may be needed.
Athearn makes a decent offset side twin hopper that can be used for CNJ/CRP.
"Foreign road" hopper models suitable for eastern Pennsylvania that
you should find useable include:
With all the above, some amount of detail work/kitbashing may be warranted
depending upon the info available and how accurate you wish to be.
You may also want to consult Ted Culotta's "Steam Era Freight Car
List" as a useful resource for prototype photos, model photos and parts sources. -
Tom Devenny
Hoppers
A few thoughts on rolling stock. Stewart (www.stewarthobbies.com/) makes a
nice version of the 55 ton fishbelly twin hopper car. CNJ had 1,000 built circa 1941-42.
Reading had identical cars. The Stewart car is a Western Maryland version with ladders
rather than grab irons. I suspect you might want to delete the ladders and add individual
vertical stiles and grab irons. The June 1994 "Railmodel Journal" provided a
decent article with templates for the ladder mods. Note that the majority of these cars
(and probably the entire coal fleet) would have been lettered for CRP between approx. 1948
and 1953. - Paul
Rice
