New Jersey Museum of Transportation, Transport museum in Wall Township, United States.
The New Jersey Museum of Transportation is a transport museum set inside Allaire State Park that runs excursion train rides on a narrow gauge railway line. The route passes through wooded parkland and gives visitors a chance to see a range of locomotives and railway cars from different periods.
The museum was founded in 1952 following the acquisition of a Baldwin locomotive, which served as its first exhibit. Over the years it moved to its current home at Allaire State Park, where the collection has continued to grow.
The collection shows locomotives that once belonged to regional industrial companies, including a sand mining operation and a lumber company. Seeing these machines side by side gives a clear picture of how freight rail shaped everyday working life in the region.
Train rides run on weekends, so it is worth checking the schedule before heading out. The journey goes through open woodland, so comfortable shoes and a light layer are a good idea whatever the season.
Two locomotives dating from the Civil War period were found underwater off the New Jersey coast in 1985 and brought to the museum for restoration. They had been lost for decades and are now among the rarest objects in the whole collection.
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