Board Announcing the Crusader At Jersey Central Railroad Terminal in Liberty State Park
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7/15/2011
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The Crusader was a 5 car stainless steel streamlined express train that ran on a 90.3-mile route from Philadelphia's Reading Terminal to Jersey City's Communipaw Terminal, with a ferry connection to Lower Manhattan at Liberty Street.
The Reading Railroad provided this service in partnership with the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ), in which it was the majority owner of capital stock. Trains including the Crusader ran on Reading Railroad tracks from Reading Terminal in Philadelphia to Bound Brook, NJ, where they continued on CNJ tracks to Communipaw Terminal in Jersey City.
Passengers then left the train and walked aboard the ferry or boarded buses that loaded onto the ferry.
Introduced in 1937, the Crusader service declined during the 1960s, and the name was ultimately dropped in 1981.
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Gate In The Central Railroad Terminal, The Reading Railroad, The Crusader, Central Railroad Terminal, Jersey Central Railroad, Jersey Central, Liberty State Park, State Park, New Jersey State Park, New Jersey, Jersey, NJ, The Garden State, Hudson County, Jersey City, Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty, U.S. National Register of Historic Places, New Jersey Register of Historic Places, New Jersey Historic Sites
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