Crusader (train)

Crusader

The 1937-built Crusader trainset
Overview
Service type	Inter-city rail
Status	Discontinued (partially replaced by the West Trenton Line)
Locale	Northeastern United States
First service	December 13, 1937 (1937-12-13)
Last service	July 30, 1981 (1981-07-30)
Former operator(s)	Reading Railroad Conrail (1976–1981)[1]
Route
Termini	Reading Terminal Communipaw Terminal
Distance travelled	90.2 miles (145.2 km)
Average journey time	1 hr 38 min
Service frequency	2 daily round trips (6 days per week)
On-board services
Seating arrangements	coach
Catering facilities	dining car with cocktail lounge
Observation facilities	observation car
Route map Legend 1937–1981 Newark Jersey City until 1967 Elizabeth Plainfield Bound Brook Belle Mead Hopewell West Trenton New Jersey Pennsylvania Langhorne Jenkintown (Wyncote) Wayne Junction North Broad Street Philadelphia This diagram: view talk edit

The Crusader was a 5 car stainless steel streamlined express train that ran on a 90.3-mile (145.3 km) route from Philadelphia's Reading Terminal to Jersey City's Communipaw Terminal, with a ferry connection to Lower Manhattan at Liberty Street. The Reading Railroad provided this service in partnership with the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ), in which it was the majority owner of capital stock. Trains including the Crusader ran on Reading Railroad tracks from Reading Terminal in Philadelphia to Bound Brook, NJ, where they continued on CNJ tracks to Communipaw Terminal in Jersey City.^[2] Passengers then left the train and walked aboard the ferry or boarded busses that loaded onto the ferry.^[3] Introduced in 1937, the Crusader service declined during the 1960s, and the name was ultimately dropped in 1981.