Freehold Secondary

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Freehold Secondary
Jamesburg right-of-way in June 2017
Overview
Other name(s)	Freehold Industrial Track
Status	Active
Owner	Conrail Shared Assets Operations
Locale	Monmouth County, New Jersey
Service
Type	Freight rail
System	CSAO
Operator(s)	Delaware and Raritan River Railroad
History
Opened	1853
Technical
Number of tracks	1
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map Legend MP [1] CSAO Amboy Secondary 5.6 Jamesburg Lake Manalapan 8.9 Hoffman Ave. 12.5 Englishtown Manalapan Township Weamaconk Creek 13.8 Tennent 15.9 Route 9 17.27 Freehold Freehold (CNJ) CNJ Freehold Branch 18.1 Route 33 24.4 Farmingdale 24.6 CSAO Southern Secondary PRR line to Manasquan This diagram: view talk edit

The Freehold Secondary (also called the Freehold Industrial Track) is an active rail line in New Jersey, the tracks of which are owned by Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO) and operated by the Delaware and Raritan River Railroad (DRR), a subsidiary of Chesapeake and Delaware, LLC. The active portion operates between Jamesburg and Lakewood, New Jersey. The section between Freehold and the junction with the Southern Secondary in Farmingdale had been dormant since 1999; DRR began track rehabilitation on this section on January 16, 2023. On October 13, 2023, (following a last-spike-driven ceremony in Farmingdale) the 5–mile Farmingdale–Freehold segment was officially reactivated. In total, 25,000+ feet of rail, 12,500 ties (including 8,000 made of sustainable steel) and six level crossings were replaced in a project that concluded nine months ahead of schedule and under budget. This project makes the operation more efficient, as one train can now serve on-line customers between Browns Yard in Old Bridge, where the train originates, to the line's largest and southernmost customer (Woodhaven Lumber) in Lakewood. DRR intends to grow business with future plans to reactivate dormant track south of Lakewood.