Editing Conrail Shared Assets Operations (section)

==North Jersey Shared Assets Area==
The '''North Jersey Shared Assets Area''' stretches from the [[North Bergen Yard]] in [[North Bergen, New Jersey]] south into [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]] and [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]], and beyond to [[Manville, New Jersey|Manville]] ([[Port Reading Junction]]) and [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]], much of which is operated over [[Amtrak]]'s [[Northeast Corridor]] and [[New Jersey Transit]] lines through [[trackage rights]]. Primary connections are to CSX's [[River Subdivision (CSX)|River Subdivision]] north to [[Albany, New York]] at North Bergen, NS's [[Southern Tier Line]] northwest to [[Buffalo, New York]] at [[Croxton, Jersey City|Croxton Yard]] in Jersey City, NS's [[Lehigh Line (Norfolk Southern)|Lehigh Line]] west to [[Allentown, Pennsylvania]] and CSX's [[Trenton Subdivision (CSX Transportation)|Trenton Subdivision]] southwest to [[Philadelphia]] at Manville, and the Conrail [[South Jersey/Philadelphia Shared Assets Area]] at Trenton. [[Oak Island Yard]] in [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]] is the principal yard for the region with smaller ones at Bayonne, [[Greenville Yard|Greenville]] (Jersey City), [[Linden Yard|Linden]], Manville, [[Metuchen, New Jersey|Metuchen]], Newark, Old Bridge, and Port Reading in Woodbridge.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.conrail.com/freight.htm |title=Conrail Operations |publisher=Conrail.com |date=2011-07-18 |access-date=2012-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722080814/http://www.conrail.com/freight.htm |archive-date=2012-07-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.choosenj.com/getattachment/Quality-of-Life/Healthcare-(1)/New-Jersey-Transportation.pdf.aspx |title=Transportation Infrastructure |website=www.choosenj.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219122852/http://www.choosenj.com/getattachment/Quality-of-Life/Healthcare-%281%29/New-Jersey-Transportation.pdf.aspx |archive-date=2014-12-19}}</ref>

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*[[Center Street Branch]], Kearny Meadows, "P&HL", [[Centre Street Bridge (Newark)|Centre Street Bridge]] (demolished)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wjgxGVT6-7IC&q=conrail+center+street+Branch&pg=PA15925|title=Federal Register|date=April 12, 1982|publisher=Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration|via=Google Books}}</ref>
*[[Passaic and Harsimus Line]] "P&HL", formerly Northeast Corridor at Waverly Yard In Newark, New Jersey, now [[Oak Island Yard]] to Jersey City
**[[Northern Running Track (Conrail)|Northern Running Track]] "NRTB", from 'CP Hack' and interchange with Passaic and Harsimus Line with connections to [[Marion Junction, New Jersey]], Croxton Yard, interchange with New York Susquehanna & Western at 'CP West Croxton' and ending at 'CP-1' of [[CSX]] [[North Bergen Yard]]
*[[National Docks Branch]] "NATB", Northern Running Track at Bergen Junction, New Jersey to [[Upper Bay Bridge]] to [[Oak Island Yard]]
*[[Chemical Coast Line|Garden State Secondary]] formerly [[Chemical Coast Line]] "COAS", [[Oak Island Yard]] to [[North Jersey Coast Line]] at [[Perth Amboy, New Jersey|Perth Amboy]]
*[[Lehigh Line (Conrail)|Lehigh Line]] "LEHL", National Docks Branch, Bayonne to CSX [[Trenton Subdivision (CSX Transportation)|Trenton Subdivision]] and NS [[Lehigh Line (Norfolk Southern)|Lehigh Line]] at [[Manville, New Jersey|Manville]]
*Perth Amboy Running Track, comes off Garden State Secondary to service industries in [[Perth Amboy, New Jersey]].
*'''Amboy Secondary''' "AMBS" ([[Amboy Branch]] and [[Jamesburg Branch]]), from William to Midway [[Amtrak]]. Connects to [[NJ Transit]] [[North Jersey Coast Line]] via the Essay and Church Running Tracks in [[South Amboy, New Jersey]].
*[[Raritan River Railroad#Conrail Sayreville Secondary|Sayreville Running Track]], Gillespie Running Track and Phoenix Branch
*[[Southern Secondary (railway)|Southern Secondary]] "SOUS", trackage rights over NJ Transit's [[North Jersey Coast Line]] from South Amboy to [[Red Bank, New Jersey]], to an interchange with the [[Delaware and Raritan River Railroad]] located in Red Bank.
*[[Port Reading Secondary]] "MANS", a line that runs from [[Port Reading Junction]] and Yard to Bound Brook where it connects with the Lehigh Line - recently upgraded and may lose its 'secondary' status.
*[[Staten Island Railroad]] "NOSL", from 'CP Ralph' in Elizabeth, NJ over the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge to Arlington Yard in Staten Island, NY including the [[Travis Branch (Staten Island Railway)|Travis Industrial Track]], which runs from Arlington Yard to a New York Department of Sanitation Waste Transfer Facility at Fresh Kills.
*[[Hightstown Industrial Track]], an Industrial Track that runs from a junction with the Amboy Secondary in Jamesburg, NJ to [[Cranbury, New Jersey|Cranbury, NJ]].
*Bonhamtown Branch, runs from NEC south of [[Metuchen station]] to [[Raritan Center]], interchanges with Raritan Central Railway at Metuchen Yard.