The Pennsylvania Railroad’s Kinkora Branch arrived late in the 19th Century. How do I know? I have an 1870 edition of the Official Guide, and the page for the Camden & Amboy RR fails to list it as among its connecting railroads.
If you go to this URL:
http://www.railroadmap.com/products_ogr1936.html,
you can buy your own digitized copy of the August, 1936 Official guide, which will be sent to you as a CD, which you can install on your computer. It is the complete August, 1936 edition, with all the information inside.
Page 269 is in the area of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and it has Table 33, which is the table for what was originally the Camden & Amboy Railroad, and at the line with MP 25.1, you will find the name Kinkora as a stop on the C&A.
Table 40 on Page 272 has the schedule for the Kinkora Branch, which had two round trips per day except Holidays at the time, and stopped at the following stations:
Kinkora: MP 0.0
Sharp: MP 2.7
Columbus: MP 4.5
Jobstown: MP 7.6
Julius Town: MP 9.6
Shreve: MP 11.6
Pemberton: MP MP 13.3
Birmingham: MP 14.8
This line connected to the PRR’s line between Camden and Long Branch via Toms River at Pemberton, which was MP 25.9 on the latter line and MP 24.4 at Birmingham.
Neither line approached Fort Dix, McGuire, or Lakehurst, but the Union Transportation Company had a short line railroad that did serve Fort Dix. It was the Pennsylvania and Atlantic Railroad, a freight-only railroad built to carry agricultural products which was leased to the Pennsylvania Railroad. It extended from Hightstown on the C&A, then ran via Upper Freehold, Cream Ridge, Hornerstown, New Egypt, Cookstown, North Hanover, Wrightstown, straight through Fort Dix, Comical Corners, to the PRR at Pemberton. The portion northeast of Interstate 195 at Upper Freehold was disconnected following World War Two, and abandoned. The PRR attached the final 3.9 Mile segment between Pemberton and Fort Dix by the 1960s as the Dix Running Track, which was last seen under that name in Penn Central RR’s Employee Timetable #5, dated May 17, 1970. If you get Delorme’s mapping software, either the Delorme Street Atlas, or the Delorme Topo USA, you will still find both routes shown as abandoned.
If you go to this URL:
http://www.railroadmap.com/products_ogr1936.html,
you can buy your own digitized copy of the August, 1936 Official guide, which will be sent to you as a CD, which you can install on your computer. It is the complete August, 1936 edition, with all the information inside.
Page 269 is in the area of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and it has Table 33, which is the table for what was originally the Camden & Amboy Railroad, and at the line with MP 25.1, you will find the name Kinkora as a stop on the C&A.
Table 40 on Page 272 has the schedule for the Kinkora Branch, which had two round trips per day except Holidays at the time, and stopped at the following stations:
Kinkora: MP 0.0
Sharp: MP 2.7
Columbus: MP 4.5
Jobstown: MP 7.6
Julius Town: MP 9.6
Shreve: MP 11.6
Pemberton: MP MP 13.3
Birmingham: MP 14.8
This line connected to the PRR’s line between Camden and Long Branch via Toms River at Pemberton, which was MP 25.9 on the latter line and MP 24.4 at Birmingham.
Neither line approached Fort Dix, McGuire, or Lakehurst, but the Union Transportation Company had a short line railroad that did serve Fort Dix. It was the Pennsylvania and Atlantic Railroad, a freight-only railroad built to carry agricultural products which was leased to the Pennsylvania Railroad. It extended from Hightstown on the C&A, then ran via Upper Freehold, Cream Ridge, Hornerstown, New Egypt, Cookstown, North Hanover, Wrightstown, straight through Fort Dix, Comical Corners, to the PRR at Pemberton. The portion northeast of Interstate 195 at Upper Freehold was disconnected following World War Two, and abandoned. The PRR attached the final 3.9 Mile segment between Pemberton and Fort Dix by the 1960s as the Dix Running Track, which was last seen under that name in Penn Central RR’s Employee Timetable #5, dated May 17, 1970. If you get Delorme’s mapping software, either the Delorme Street Atlas, or the Delorme Topo USA, you will still find both routes shown as abandoned.
