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Union Tower is a closed interlocking tower on thePennsylvania Railroad'sNortheast Corridor inRahway, New Jersey.
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Union Tower was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) to control thePerth Amboy and Woodbridge Railroad. Incidentally the PA&W was electrified by the PRR in 1935. For years this interlocking tower on the PRR had controlled trains on the NEC and the PA&W heading either to or from theNew York and Long Branch Railroad inSouth Amboy, New Jersey. In 1968 when the Pennsy merged with theNew York Central Railroad to formPenn Central, Union continued to control trains from the PA&W and NEC. In 1976 the government created railroadConrail assumed operations from Penn Central. While Amtrak handled passenger trains on the NEC. Conrail did commuter and freight operations. Freight however did not get sent onto the North Jersey Coast Line, it stayed on the NEC.[1]
Today, Amtrak Union Tower formerly controlled the NEC and the approaches from thePerth Amboy and Woodbridge Railroad branch (North Jersey Coast Line). It closed in 2011. The traffic it still sees areNJ Transit Rail Operations trains to and fromLong Branch, andAmtrak and NJ Transit trains to and fromNew York City,Trenton andPhiladelphia. Amtrak CETC-9 now dispatches the territory formerly controlled by the operator at Union. Three interlockings replaced Union Tower; Roads, Union, and Merck.
40°36′11″N74°16′49″W / 40.60299°N 74.28021°W /40.60299; -74.28021
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