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United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company

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John Bull First British American Locomotive for Camden and Amboy Railroad Robert Stephenson Builder

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The Price of Silence, The Forgotten Story of New Jersey's Enslaved People

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The Famous Railroad in New Jersey

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The Columbia Railroad

The United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company (UNJ&CC) was a railroad company which began as the important Camden & Amboy Railroad (C&A) whose 1830 lineage began as one of the eight or ten earliest permanent North American railroads, and among the first common carrier transportation companies whose prospectus marketed an enterprise aimed at carrying passengers fast and competing with stagecoaches between New York Harbor and Philadelphia-Trenton. Among the other earliest chartered or incorporated railroads, only the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad were chartered with passenger services in mind. Later after mergers as the UNJ&CC became a subsidiary part of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) system in New Jersey by the later merger and acquisition of several predecessor companies in 1872; which purchases also included the PRR's main line to New York City. Prior to 1872, its main lines were the Camden and Amboy Rail Road and Transportation Company, the first railroad in New Jersey and one of the first railroad in the United States.
  • History 

  • Camden and Amboy: 1830–1834 

  • Jersey City–Trenton: 1832–1839 

  • Further connections and realignments: 1839–1867 

  • Competition 

  • PRR lease 

  • Other branches 

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