The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) maintains the State Highway system in New Jersey. The NJDOT was also responsible for maintaining and procuring equipment for the state's bus and train operations. Notable are the 800+ Flxible bus order, the EMD GP40Ps for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the GE U34CH locomotives and Comet I cars for the Erie Lackawanna, and the almost Amtrak-esque appearance of 1970s NJ commuter trains with mixtures of Rock Island, Great Northern, Santa Fe, Burlington Northern, Penn Central, and the CNJ. Every road maintained by the New Jersey Department of Transportation or a toll authority is given a number. ... State nickname: The Garden State Official languages None defined, English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Governor Richard Codey (D) Acting, Outgoing Jon Corzine (D) (Governor-Elect) Senators Jon Corzine (D) (Outgoing) Bob Menendez (D) (named as Corzines replacement) Frank Lautenberg (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 47th 22... A 1987 Metro-B, owned by WMATA, serves as a roadblock in Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2005. ... EMD had produced several variants on the EMD GP40 in the 1960s. ... alternate logo The Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, more commonly known as the Jersey Central Lines, or CNJ, was a regional railroad with origins in the 1830s, lasting until 1976 when it was absorbed into Conrail with the other bankrupt railroads of the Northeast. ... // General Electric U34CH 32 units built 1970-1973 (EL 3351-3382) (CR/NJT 4151-4182) 1 unit rebuilt from CNW U30C in 1978 (MTA/MNCR 4183) U34CH 4172 on the Farewell to the U34CH excursion at Hillsdale, NJ 8/27/1994 (Photo by John Eric Durant) The Erie Lackwanna Years... The Erie Lackawanna Railroad (AAR reporting mark EL) was formed from the 1960 merger of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. ... The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ... Rock Island may refer to: Rock Island, a census-designated place in Broward County, Florida. ... Great Northern may refer to: the Great Northern Diver, Gavia adamsii, a bird the Great Northern War, a war fought by Russia, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony-Poland against Sweden the Great Northern Railway, an Irish railway the Great Northern Railway, a United States railroad the Great Northern Railway, a British... Santa Fe (Spanish for holy faith) or Santa Fé (Portuguese) is the name of a number of places in the world: United States of America: Santa Fe, the state capital of New Mexico Santa Fe, Florida Santa Fe, Missouri Santa Fe, Tennessee Santa Fe, Texas Rancho Santa Fe, California It... Categories: Rail stubs | Defunct railroad companies of the United States | California railroads | Colorado railroads | Idaho railroads | Illinois railroads | Iowa railroads | Kansas railroads | Kentucky railroads | Minnesota railroads | Missouri railroads | Montana railroads | Nebraska railroads | North Dakota railroads | Oregon railroads | South Dakota railroads | Washington railroads | Wisconsin railroads | Wyoming railroads ... The Penn Central Transportation Company, normally called Penn Central, was an American railroad company, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and formed by the merger on February 1, 1968 of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad; the New Haven was added to the merger at the insistence of the...

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