page_title: High Bridge Branch
section_title: Current status
hierarchical_section_title: High Bridge Branch / Current status
caption_attribution_description: English: "High Bridge of the Central Railroad of New Jersey" 1854 (wood engraving)
context_page_description: The High Bridge Branch was a branch line of the Central Railroad of New Jersey that started in High Bridge, New Jersey at a connection with the CNJ main line and continued north to iron-ore mines in Morris County. The High Bridge Branch line followed the South Branch of the Raritan River for much of its duration.
context_section_description: Few remnants remain of the line; occasional rotting wooden ties can be found along the rail trails. The former CNJ wye connection is still partially present in High Bridge in the parking area for the trail as is the CNJ Ken Lockwood Gorge Trestle  above the South Branch of the Raritan River in High Bridge. In April 1885, the trestle collapsed as a train was going over it, sending several freight cars and at least one locomotive into the river.
  There is a small section of track preserved in Califon and a small museum in the restored former Califon passenger station.  The freight station in Flanders (on Hillside Avenue) is now a jeweler's store.
  The remaining northern section of the High Bridge Branch is been owned by Morris County and managed under the auspices of the County's Department of Transportation (MCDOT) since 1986. It is operated under a lease agreement by the Dover & Rockaway River Railroad (D&R), effective July 1, 2017.  The branch starts at Ferromonte Junction, which is a switch on the Chester Branch. Until October 2013, the only active customer on the line was Blue Ridge Lumber which unloads cars at the Kenvil Team Track off U.S. Route 46. In October 2013, Triumph Plastics began receiving carloads of plastic at their facility in Flanders, NJ which marked the first revenue freight train to operate beyond Kenvil since 2008. 
  South of Bartley to High Bridge is owned by the Hunterdon and Morris County Park Commissions with an easement in perpetuity by the Columbia Gas Company. Bartley to just east of Kenvil is owned by the Morris County Department of Transportation, and just east of the County ownership in Kenvil is privately owned. A portion of the former railroad in Wharton is owned by Wharton Borough.
caption: CNJ "High Bridge" over the Raritan River, 1854
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