Reply to "Railroad tracks surface on Cape May, NJ Beach"

Dennis LaGruaOGR Forum Member

My wife owns a summer home in Cape May and we are very familiar with the railroading history in the area. We were there just this past weekend. The recently uncovered trackage is at the Cape May Point (West Cape May) . A rail line ran to the point up until 1982 when the Harbeson Walker Magnesite plant there closed. There was also the trolley line that ran on the South side (now underwater). The Pennsylvania and Reading lines ran from Camden to Cape May City and the PRR fisherman's special/ fish trains ran to Schellenger's landing by the Lobster House. Sadly, today trains no longer run to Cape May but the former mainline line there still exists. Several years back the Cape May Seashore lines tourist train ran there until vandals destroyed track between Tuckahoe and Woodbine. It now faces an uncertain future.

11/17/1411:16 AM

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