26 Miles to Jersey City

Flanders, New Jersey: Railroad Avenue Enterprises, Inc., 1983. A gorgeous, pristine copy. Brand New in perfect condition. SEE PHOTOS. NO rubbing. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Bright, clean and shiny. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with a railroad map of New Jersey, floor layouts of Jersey City and Newark terminals, diagrams of train sheds, and about 150 vintage photographs, a few in full-color. From the introduction: "[This book] is meant to document the condition of [train] stations existing in New Jersey during the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Many stations pictured have been destroyed or put to different uses since the photographs were taken… This volume is confined to the stations of the Central Railroad of New Jersey… By limiting the scope to one railroad a broad cross section of stations can be pictured… Brief histories of the various lines along which the stations are located are included as they were, after all, the reason for the structures' existence." Contains an Introduction and sections on: The Central Railroad of New Jersey; The Jersey City Terminal; The Main Line; North and South of Elizabethport; The South Branch; Branches North of High Bridge; Branching in to Matawan; The New Jersey Southern Division. Softcover. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. Bound in the original pictorial wraps.. First Edition. Softcover. New. 62pp.