Day Trips To New Jersey By Train
Posted: November 18th, 2025 | Filed under: Out Of TownBound Brook, Somerset County
Bound Brook along the Raritan Valley Line, a trip from 2023:

The old train station is home to Mama Rosina’s, which serves *really* good meatballs, by the way:

Somerville, Somerset County
And two stops farther along the Raritan Valley Line is Somerville, this from September:

Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage:



The Meatball Sundae at Alfonso’s Trattoria:

Old Atari cartridges at Retro Classics:

New Brunswick, Middlesex County
Back in March, we visited New Brunswick, along the Northeast Corridor line. It is home to Rutgers University and Stuff Yer Face, which specializes in stromboli and where Mario Batali got his start:




A walk down George Street:





The Delaware and Raritan Canal connects the Raritan River in New Brunswick with the Delaware River in Bordentown:



The New Brunswick train station:


Bay Head, Ocean County
Bay Head is the end of the line for the North Jersey Coast Line and we went there in November 2021:

And L. Ron Hubbard wrote Dianetics in a house on East Avenue during 1949-50:


Waning daylight on the North Jersey Coast Line train heading back to New York:


See also from an earlier post, Morristown on the Morristown Line and the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center along the Montclair-Boonton Line . . .

































