NJ Transit Rail Operations

As of 2012, NJ Transit's commuter rail network consists of 11 lines and 164 stations,[2] primarily concentrated in northern New Jersey, with one line running between Atlantic City and Philadelphia.

Operations are in two divisions:

• Hoboken Division, formerly operated by the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, runs from Hoboken Terminal or through Newark – Broad Street and includes Midtown Direct service via the Kearny Connection.
• Newark Division, formerly operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey and New York and Long Branch Railroad, operates through Newark Penn Station via the Northeast Corridor, with most trains continuing to New York Penn Station. This division also includes the Atlantic City Line formerly operated by the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines.

Although NJ Transit itself does not carry freight, NJTR allows freight service to be operated over its lines via trackage rights agreements with several railroads. Conrail (CSAO), CSX, Norfolk Southern (NS) and several short lines (Cape May Seashore Lines (CMSL), Dover and Delaware River Railroad (DD), Morristown & Erie Railway (M&E), and Southern Railroad of New Jersey (SRNJ)) currently have trackage rights contracts to operate freight service on NJ Transit lines. The Morristown & Erie Railway can only use NJT trackage to get between its owned trackage; it cannot serve customers on NJ Transit trackage. A similar situation exists for Conrail on the Atlantic City Line.

Below is a list of NJ Transit lines and freight lines that operate on them:

• Morristown Line: DD, M&E
• Montclair-Boonton Line: DD, M&E
• Main Line: NS, M&E
• Bergen County Line: NS, M&E
• Pascack Valley Line: NS
• Raritan Valley Line: CSAO
• North Jersey Coast Line: CSAO
• Atlantic City Line: CSAO, SRNJ

NJTR also owns several lines not used for regular passenger service. These lines were purchased by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in the late 1970s for railbanking purposes, with ownership transferring to NJ Transit upon its creation in 1979. These lines are either leased for freight/tourist service, interim rail trail use, or remain derelict:

• Harrison-Kingsland Branch: derelict
• Raritan Valley Line:
  • High Bridge-Bloomsbury: NS
  • Bloomsbury-Phillipsburg: trackage removed due to construction of Interstate 78 in 1989
• Red Bank -South Lakewood: Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO)
• Woodmansie-Winslow Junction: derelict
• Beesley's Point Secondary:
  • Winslow Junction-Palmero/Beesley's Point: CSAO
  • Palermo-Ocean City: leased to city of Ocean City in 1999 for use as interim Ocean City Bike Path rail trail
• Tuckahoe-Cape May: Cape May Seashore Lines, Southern Railroad of New Jersey
• HX Interlocking (Hackensack River)-Croxton Yard: realigned for Secaucus Junction, used as yard lead by NS
• Freehold-Farmingdale: derelict
• Freehold-Matawan: leased to Monmouth County Park System until 2020 as interim section of Henry Hudson Trail

NJT owns most of its tracks, infrastructure, bridges, tunnels and signals. The exceptions are:

• Atlantic City Line – Philadelphia 30th Street Station to Frankford Junction (owned by Amtrak) and Frankford Junction to Pennsauken Delair Junction (owned by Conrail)
• Northeast Corridor Line – entire line except Morrisville Yard (owned by Amtrak)
• Port Jervis Line – Suffern to Port Jervis (owned by Norfolk Southern and leased by Metro-North)
• Raritan Valley Line – Aldene to Hunter (owned by Conrail)
• Montclair-Boonton Line – West of Netcong (owned by Norfolk Southern)

NJ Transit's main storage and maintenance facility is the Meadows Maintenance Complex in Kearny, New Jersey. Other major yard facilities are located at Hoboken Terminal. Amtrak's Sunnyside Yard in Queens, New York serves as a layover facility for trains to New York Penn Station. Additional yards are located at outlying points along the lines. These include:[3]

• Main and Bergen County Lines:
  • Waldwick Yard
  • Suffern Yard
• Montclair-Boonton Line:
  • Great Notch Yard, Little Falls
• Morris and Essex Lines:
  • Gladstone Yard
  • Summit Yard
  • Dover Yard
  • Port Morris Yard
• North Jersey Coast Line:
  • Long Branch Yard
  • Bay Head Yard
• Northeast Corridor:
  • Morrisville Yard, Morrisville, PA (near the Trenton Transit Center)
  • County Yard, New Brunswick (near Jersey Avenue)
  • Hudson Yard, Harrison (Serves mostly Raritan Valley Line trains)
• Pascack Valley Line:
  • Woodbine Yard, Spring Valley, NY
• Port Jervis Line:
  • Port Jervis Yard, Port Jervis, NY
• Raritan Valley Line:
  • Raritan Yard

NJT has a fleet of maintenance crews and vehicles that repair tracks, spread ballast, deliver supplies and inspect infrastructure. There are eight non-revenue work diesels used for these purposes.

NJT utilizes numerous moveable bridges:

• Dock Bridge, Newark (Passaic River) – Northeast Corridor Line (vertical lift) (owned and operated by Amtrak)
• Portal Bridge, Secaucus (Hackensack River) – Northeast Corridor Line (swing) (owned and operated by Amtrak)
• Newark Draw, Newark (Passaic River) – Morristown Line (swing)
• Lower Hack Lift, Jersey City (Hackensack River) – Morristown Line (vertical lift)
• Upper Hack Lift, Secaucus (Hackensack River) – Main Line (vertical lift)
• HX Draw, Secaucus (Hackensack River) – Bergen County Line and Pascack Valley Line (bascule)
• Lyndhurst Draw, Lyndhurst (Passaic River) – Main Line (swing)
• River Draw, South Amboy (Raritan River) – North Jersey Coast Line (swing)
• Morgan Draw, Old Bridge (Cheesequake Creek) – North Jersey Coast Line (bascule)
• Oceanport Draw, Oceanport (Oceanport Creek) – North Jersey Coast Line (swing)
• Shark River Draw, Belmar (Shark River) – North Jersey Coast Line (bascule)
• Brielle Draw, Brielle (Manasquan River) – North Jersey Coast Line (bascule)
• Beach Bridge, Atlantic City (Beach Thorofare) – Atlantic City Line (swing)
• Delair Bridge, Pennsauken (Delaware River) – Atlantic City Line (vertical lift) (owned and operated by Conrail)

All NJ Transit Rail Operations equipment in both revenue and non-revenue service carry AAR reporting marks of NJTR without exception. Equipment owned by Metro-North carries AAR reporting marks MNCW without exception.

These locomotives carry NJTR reporting marks for revenue service. Not included are the EMU cars, which are technically locomotives, but are listed in the Passenger Cars roster below.

Builder and model	Photo	Numbers	Built	Acquired	Type	Power	Notes
EMD GP40PH-2		4100–4101, 4109	1968	1983 (inherited at inception)	Diesel	3,000 hp (2,237 kW)	Former Central Railroad of New Jersey GP40P units; rebuilt by Conrail 1991–1993. 4100, 4101 and 4109 are the only locomotives left in revenue service. All other units were retired from revenue service and entered an in-house rebuild program by NJ Transit for mechanical conversion to standard GP40-2s for non-revenue service. 4109 was repainted into CNJ livery and has re-entered revenue service.[4]
EMD GP40PH-2B		4200–4219	1965–1969	1993–1994	Diesel	3,000 hp (2,237 kW)	Ex-Penn Central. Replacements for the GE U34CHs. To be replaced by additional ALP-45DP units. 4219 was rebuilt from GP40PH-2A 4148, which was damaged in 1996.[5]
Bombardier ALP-46		4600–4628	2001–2002		Electric	7,100 hp (5,294 kW)	Purchased for service increases related to Midtown Direct.
Alstom PL42AC		4000–4032	2005–2006		Diesel	4,200 hp (3,132 kW) 3,680 hp (2,744 kW) available for traction
Bombardier ALP-46A		4629–4664	2010–2011		Electric	7,500 hp (5,593 kW)	Delivery started in 2010; the first units entered service on June 2, 2010.[6] All units currently in service. No. 4636 wrapped in heritage Pennsylvania Railroad scheme
Bombardier ALP-45DP		4500–4534	2010–2011		Dual-mode (electric and diesel)	Electric mode 5,365 hp (4,001 kW) Diesel mode 4,200 hp (3,132 kW) 3,000 hp (2,237 kW) available for traction	Capable of running using wire or under diesel mode.[7] 35 purchased in original order; options for 17 more exercised in December 2017.[8] No. 4519 wrapped in heritage Erie Lackawanna Railroad scheme.
		4535-4551	2020-

All non-revenue locomotives are diesel-powered and legally carry the same "NJTR" AAR reporting marks as all other equipment without exception. As these locomotives lack HEP, they do not haul trains in passenger service unless performing a rescue.

NJ Transit has a fleet of over 1,000 passenger cars. The fleet and examples are described below.

Except for the Comet II (which are all trailers), all examples shown are cab cars leading or on the tail end of trains.

Car groupings are, except for the Arrow III MUs, arranged in the following order: cab cars, trailers with lavatories, and trailers without lavatories, where applicable.

Single Arrow III MU's are GE Model MA-1J, married pairs are GE Model MA-1H. NJ Transit also leased 10 MARC Train coaches in 2018 to alleviate an equipment shortage.[9]

Builder and model	Photo	Numbers	Total	Built	Rebuilt (rebuilder)	Notes
GE Arrow III		1304–1333 (singles) 1334–1533 (pairs)	30 single cars (no lavatory) 200 paired cars (lavatory in odd cars)	1977	1992–1995 (ABB)	Self-propelled cars. 160 cars are in revenue service. Some units sold to USDOT for testing. To be replaced by Bombardier Multilevel III units.
Bombardier Comet II		5300–5460	161 trailers (no lavatories)	1982–1989	1999–2003 (AAI/Alstom)
Bombardier Comet IV		5011–5031, 5235–5264, 5535–5582	21 cab cars (lavatory) 30 trailers (lavatory) 48 trailers (no lavatory)	1996		No door at the engineer's position. 5019 and 5025 are retired. Cab cars are now used exclusively as trailers and will no longer be leading/ending the train since the cab controllers have been deactivated.
Alstom Comet V		6000–6083, 6200–6213, 6500–6601	84 cab cars (lavatory) 14 trailers (lavatory) 102 trailers (no lavatory)	2002–2004		Cars have center doors. Stainless steel cars. Purchased to replace Comet I low-platform cars & to address Midtown Direct service increases. Several cars damaged in a September 29, 2016 train crash at Hoboken Terminal.
Bombardier MultiLevel Coach		7000–7051, 7200–7298, 7500–7677	52 cab cars (lavatory) 99 trailers (lavatory) 178 trailers (no lavatory)	2006–2010		Joint order with AMT (Montreal). First cars with quarter-point doors.[10] 45 car option exercised in June 2007.[11] 50-car option exercised in August 2008.[12] 7229–7236 were formerly owned and used for the Atlantic City Express Service. Cab Car 7031, has flashing ditch lights.
Bombardier MultiLevel Coach II		7052–7061, 7678–7767	10 cab cars (lavatory) 90 trailers (no lavatory)	2012–2013		A 100 car base order was announced on July 14, 2010.[13] It was finalized and awarded to Bombardier on September 1, 2010. The order includes an additional 79 car option.[14][15] 54 of these options exercised by MARC to obtain 54 cars with quick turnaround, leaving 25 unexercised options.
Bombardier MultiLevel Coach III		?	58 powered trailers[16] 33 unpowered cab cars[16] 22 unpowered trailers (6 with lavatory)[16]	2022-2023		NJ Transit awarded Bombardier a $670 million contract for the construction of an initial 113-car order in December 2018, with deliveries expected to begin in late 2022 and entry into service scheduled for mid-2023.[16] The contract includes options for up to 636 more cars.[16]