{"id":1038,"date":"2025-11-18T07:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:53:24","slug":"day-trips-to-new-jersey-by-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2025\/11\/18\/day-trips-to-new-jersey-by-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Trips To New Jersey By Train"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bound Brook, Somerset County<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bound Brook<\/a> along the Raritan Valley Line, a trip from 2023:<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

The old train station is home to Mama Rosina’s, which serves *really* good meatballs, by the way:<\/p>\n

\"Mama<\/p>\n

Somerville, Somerset County<\/strong><\/p>\n

And two stops farther along the Raritan Valley Line is Somerville<\/a>, this from September:<\/p>\n

\"Main<\/p>\n

Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Wallace<\/p>\n

\"Old<\/p>\n

\"Old<\/p>\n

The Meatball Sundae at Alfonso’s Trattoria<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Meatball<\/p>\n

Old Atari cartridges at Retro Classics<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Retro<\/p>\n

New Brunswick, Middlesex County<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in March, we visited New Brunswick<\/a>, along the Northeast Corridor line. It is home to Rutgers University and Stuff Yer Face<\/a>, which specializes in stromboli and where Mario Batali got his start:<\/p>\n

\"Stromboli<\/p>\n

\"Stromboli,<\/p>\n

\"1980-81<\/p>\n

\"Mario<\/p>\n

A walk down George Street<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"George<\/p>\n

\"John<\/p>\n

\"George<\/p>\n

\"Zajac's<\/p>\n

Boyd Park<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Boyd<\/p>\n

The Delaware and Raritan Canal connects the Raritan River in New Brunswick with the Delaware River in Bordentown:<\/p>\n

\"Delware<\/p>\n

\"D<\/p>\n

\"D<\/p>\n

The New Brunswick train station<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

Bay Head, Ocean County<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bay Head<\/a> is the end of the line for the North Jersey Coast Line and we went there in November 2021:<\/p>\n

\"Train<\/p>\n

And L. Ron Hubbard wrote Dianetics<\/em> in a house on East Avenue during 1949-50:<\/p>\n

\"L.<\/p>\n

\"L.<\/p>\n

Waning daylight on the North Jersey Coast Line train heading back to New York:<\/p>\n

\"Hudson<\/p>\n

\"Hudson<\/p>\n

See also from an earlier post, Morristown<\/a> on the Morristown Line and the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center<\/a> along the Montclair-Boonton Line . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bound 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: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out_of_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}