Raritan Valley Line was also the Statue of Liberty. Most of the line follows the main line of the former Central Railroad of New Jersey. Historically, CNJ trains ran on this line, as part of its Lehigh-Susquehanna Division, from Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton in eastern Pennsylvania, through Elizabeth and Bayonne to Jersey City. Until 1967 CNJ service terminated at the company's Communipaw Terminal in what is today Liberty State Park. This station, which was also served by Reading Company trains to Philadelphia and B & O service to Washington, D.C. and beyond, had connections by chartered bus or ferry into Manhattan
Shenandoah (B&O train) The "Shenandoah" operated to New York City via Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, until April 26, 1958, when the B&O discontinued passenger service north of Baltimore. As passenger patronage on American railroads continued to decline in the 1960s, the combination sleeper-dome and dining cars were dropped, and were renamed the "Diplomat" in 1964 and then dropped altogether in 1967. Amtrak revived the name in the 1970s for the short-lived "Shenandoah", a Washington—Cincinnati train. In 1961, westbound "Shenandoah" Train # 7 operated on the following schedule (departure times at principal stops shown): Shenandoah (B&O train) The Shenandoah was an American named passenger train of