The New Jersey West Line Railroad was a proposed railroad running east and west across northern New Jersey, of which the only part constructed was what is now the Gladstone Branch of New Jersey Transit between Summit and Bernardsville. Some other remains of it can be found in Summit, Millburn, and Union Township.
Read more about New Jersey West Line Railroad: The Proposed Railroad, Unfinished Section in Summit, Millburn, and Union, Completed Section: Gladstone Branch
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