Folks, I posted this over on Railroad.net. Does anyone know who's line this was? When did they tear it up?

http://railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=94807

Du-u-u-u-de....

You'll get a LOT further if you give us more pertinent information about the location.

I have to assume you mean New Jersey, and Interstate 295, mile marker 53.8. How about a Google Maps or Bing Maps location/view?

Dude?!?!?!?! Are you allowed to use that as old as you are? LOL

Just kidding!

Here is the map link.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.099035 ... gl=us&z=16

just a 'stab' from way out west here...but I note that the ROW a little lower in the google view becomes Mill Ln W. Was this a line that serviced a local mill operation? Start by searching the old maps of Bordentown,

sc 'doc' lewis

That should be the ROW of the former PRR Kinkora Branch that ran from Kinkora (on the PRR's ex-Camden & Amboy line) to Fort Dix.

On a "preservation note", the line ran through Jobstown and many years ago the Trolley Valhalla Museum tried to set up its operation along this line at Jobstown. Trolley Valhalla had tried here and elsewhere in NJ, before moving some of its collection to the New Hope & Ivyland RR at Buckingham Valley, PA under the banner of the Buckingham Valley Trolley Association. Edit: If my memory is working ok, I believe by the time the trolley museum got to Jobstown, the branch's rails had been lifted and their plan was to relay track (trolley gauge?) on the ROW.

Jim Robinson

Ah, much better.

This is most definitely part of the PRR line that went from a wye located between Roebling and Kinkora on the present-day NJ Transit River Line between Trenton and Camden, south to Columbus and Jobstown to Lewistown, there connecting at another junction to the Pemberton-Fort Dix-McGuire AFB PRR spur, which met at New Egypt with the Union Transportation Co. line to Hightstown.

Trolley Valhalla moved to Jobstown, N.J. before the PRR rails were removed. We rented from PennCentral the right to build a concrete grade crossing, which the scrapper destroyed. It is the only legal access to our landlocked museum site.