SIRT MTA #620
December 17, 2004
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: The Baltimore and Ohio trackage in New Jersey consisted of a 5.5 mile segment, which ran from Cranford Jct. on the Central Railroad of New Jersey to Arthur Kill and on to Staten Island, NY. B&O trains reached this isolated property by trackage rights over the Reading Co. from Philadelphia, PA, to Bound Brook, NJ, then CNJ to Cranford Jct. The Lehigh Valley RR also maintained an interchange with SIRT at Cranford. Though strictly a freight operation in New Jersey, SIRT ran an urban style passenger rapid transit system on Staten Island which exists today under New York City's MTA.
Mileposts 
0.0 St. George, NY (see below) 2.5 West Brighton 5.1 Arlington ----------- Travis Industrial Track Arlington Yard Con Edison Howland Hook Marine Terminal Map ----------- 6.8 Arthur Kill Drawbridge 7.9 Bayway, NJ 9.2 Linden 10.9 Bantas 11.7 Staten Island Jct (with CR Lehigh Line) 12.2 Cranford Jct. (RVRR Interchange)
(circa 1960)
Cranford Junction, NJ to Arthur Kill, NY
B&O #1183 1921 St. George Terminal
Collection: Dave Keller
B&O #1347 1921 St. George Terminal
Collection: Dave Keller
(circa 1949)
Staten Island, NY
SIRT 2 Car train Richmond Valley
c.1950 Collection: Dave Keller
SIRT Alco S-2 #9029 Freight run c.1955
Collection: Dave Keller
SIRT Alco S-2 #9033 at West 26th St., New York, NY 10-06-57
Collection: Dave Keller
LIRR #2513 Photo: Joe Korman
LIRR #2513 Jefferson Ave. 8/21/72
New Dorp Station LIRR #2509 04/28/1973 Fan Trip Photo: Joe Testagrose
Ex-LIRR Alco S-1 #407 Clifton 05/25/2007
Photo: Bobby J. Kasza
Arthur Kill Lift Bridge
08/12/07 view West from Hilton 6th floor
Photo: Steve Lynch
MU #2509 Two car train Princes Bay, Staten Island 04/28/1973
Archive: Dave Keller
Back in the early 1970s, the LIRR loaned or leased six (6) MU cars to the Staten Island Rapid Transit for their use.
These two
LIRR MU cars are seen in SIRT service, stopped at Princes Bay station on
The LIRR never had any stations that looked like this structure and located in a cut. Also . . . . check out that shelter shed across from the depot building! Certainly not “Pennsy style!” Info: Dave Keller
Arthur Kill Bayway, NJ view east 10/07/2006
Photo: John McCluskey
MOW Facility at Clifton Station 6/02/75
Photo: Steve Lynch