JP Rail, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation doing business as SRNJ, operates tracks in the Winslow area that originally belonged to the New Jersey Southern Railroad, and which were later acquired by the Central Railroad of New Jersey and subsequently Conrail and the New Jersey Department of Transportation. SRNJ acquired operating rights to the Winslow-Vineland route, known as the Winslow Branch, from The Shore Fast Line, Inc. in 1991. In the 1991 transaction SRNJ also obtained rights from SFLR to operate freight on of the Atlantic City Line owned by New Jersey Transit, from Winslow to Pleasantville; and took ownership of several short sections of connecting branch lines and junctions. The Salem-Swedesboro route, known locally as the Salem County Branch Line, was originally part of the Salem Railroad, and subsequently became the Salem Secondary Track on the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines. PRSL was acquired by Conrail in 1976, and the Salem branch was sold by Conrail to the Salem County government in 1985. SRNJ contracted with the county in 1995 to take over operations on the route from the West Jersey Railroad Co. which was awarded the initial contract by the county in 1988. Between 2009 and 2012 U.S. Rail Corporation operated the Salem line. In 2012 the county reassigned the contract to SRNJ.
Operations
Winslow Junction operations
The railroad serves local businesses and interchanges freight cars with Conrail Shared Assets Operations. SRNJ maintains an interchange yard at Winslow Junction, connecting with the Atlantic City Line and CSAO Beesley Point Secondary Track. The Winslow branch route was restored after it was damaged by floods in 2003. As of 2014 the Winslow Junction-Vineland section of track is not in use except for the northernmost 4 miles, which serves an asphalt plant. The railroad also has trackage rights over NJT's Atlantic City Line, to Atlantic City, where their branch line to Pleasantville, NJ branches off.
Salem Branch operations
In Salem, SRNJ maintains a yard and connects with the CSAO Swedesboro Industrial Track and Salem Running Track. The Salem Branch line, which is over 100 years old, is in poor condition as of 2012, and the maximum speed is. In September 2012 NJDOT announced that it will provide a $1.35 million grant to Salem County to rehabilitate the track in 2013. In 2018, the SRNJ leased the Salem Branch between Swedesboro and Woodbury from Conrail, and an interchange with Conrail was established in Woodbury. Customers along the route include the Port of Salem and Mannington Mills.
Roster
The SRNJ owns a diverse variety of locomotive equipment including an EMD GP9 and GP10,and MLW M-420s.
