From 2006-2008, a major reconstruction project authorized by NJ Transit took place with $46 Million worth of federal aid, and $33 Million worth of state funding that resulted in the replacement with the current Trenton Transit Center. By 1983, the station became part of the New Jersey Transit Rail Operations, but also continued to serve Amtrak as well as SEPTA Regional Rail to Philadelphia.
In 1976, Penn Central built the new Trenton Rail Station just as the railroad was being acquired by Conrail. Amtrak took over intercity railroad service in 1971, but Penn Central continued to serve commuters, even as it was reduced to little more than a platform in 1972.
The station became a Penn Central station once the New York Central & Pennsylvania Railroads merged in 1968. The C&A was merged into the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company in 1867 and acquired by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1893, which replaced the station the same year. Rail service in Trenton dates back to the days of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, which built a station on East Street in 1837, until it was moved to the current site in 1863. This district illustrates Trenton's early nineteenth century suburbanization, an important episode in the physical development of the City between c.
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