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The West Jersey and Seashore Railroad (WJ&S) was a Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary that became part of Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines in 1933. At the end of 1925 it operated of road on of track; that year it reported 166 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 332 million passenger-miles. ==History== On May 4, 1896 the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) consolidated all its railroads and several smaller properties in southern New Jersey into the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad (WJ&S). The WJ&S, as a subsidiary of the PRR, had two lines coming from its Federal Street Terminal in Camden, New Jersey: *The Main Line to Atlantic City and to other shore points via Winslow Junction using trackage rights on ACRR's Cape May Branch to Woodbine Junction and its Cape May line to Ocean City, Wildwood and Cape May. *The Millville Line via Woodbury to Millville and splitting off at Newfield to Atlantic City was electrified with 650v DC 3rd rail and overhead wire. *A line branching off at Millville *Branches going to Salem, and Deep Water Point from Woodbury and Bridgeton from Glassboro. On October 28, 1906 an accident in Atlantic City killed 53 people when a three-car train plunged off an open swing bridge. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「West Jersey and Seashore Railroad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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