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Homepage About Me History of the Line Chapter I: New Orange & Its Railroad Chapter II: Keller's Baltusrol & Pacific Chapter III: Boom and Bust Chapter IV: The Clarks to the Rescue Chapter V: Congenial George Clark Chapter VI: Last of the Clarks Chapter VII: The Cahill Years Chapter VIII: Delaware Otsego & the End of the Line Chapter IX: An Attempted Rebirth Appendix A: New Orange Industrial Association  Appendix B: Company History of the Rahway Valley Railroad Appendix C: Timeline of the Rahway Valley Railroad Route of the Rahway Valley Railroad The Mainline Summit Interchange: Delaware, Lackawanna, & Western Bridge: Broad Street Switch Connection: Spur to Summit Station  Spur Line: Summit Station & Yard Bridge: Morris Avenue Bridge: Ashwood Avenue Bridge: Russell Place  East Summit Station Springfield Bridge: Shunpike Road Commonwealth Junction Robinson The Grade Up the Watchung Mountains Overpass: Interstate 78 Grade Crossing: Baltusrol Way Baltusrol Station Grade Crossing: Mountain Avenue Springfield Station Bridge: Van Winkle's Creek Grade Crossing: Meisel Avenue Union Bridge: Rahway River Trestle Grade Crossing: Liberty Avenue Katemiller Station (a.k.a. Arion Station) Wright's Switch (Branch Junction) Rahway Valley Line (Branch to Maplewood) Unionbury Station Bridge: Morris Avenue Bridge: Vauxhall Road Bridge: Stanley Terrace Doty's Station (a.k.a. Union Station) Grade Crossing: Route 22 Kenilworth Upsala College Galloping Hill Golf Course Rahway River Branch Grade Crossing: N. Michigan Ave. Warren Street Station Grade Crossing: N. 22nd St. Grade Crossing: N. 21st St. Grade Crossing: N. 20th St. Grade Crossing: N. 19th St. Grade Crossing: N. 18th St. Grade Crossing: N. 17th St. Grade Crossing: N. 16th St. Grade Crossing: N. 14th St. Grade Crossing: Monroe Ave. Grade Crossing: N. 12th St. Grade Crossing: N. 10th St. Grade Crossing: N. 8th St. The Kenilworth Yards Kenilworth Station Passenger Coach Offices The "Old" Engine Shed The "New" Engine Shed Freight Shed The Water Tower Coal Bin Gas Pump  Storage Sheds Diesel Fuel Tank Grade Crossing: Boulevard Overpass: Garden State Parkway Lehigh Valley Branch Grade Crossing: Fairfield Ave. Grade Crossing: W. Colfax Ave. Grade Crossing: Market Street Grade Crossing: S. Michigan Ave. Grade Crossing: W. Colfax Ave. Roselle Park Grade Crossing: W. Colfax Ave. Lehigh Valley Branch Grade Crossing: W. Colfax Ave. Grade Crossing: W. Webster Avenue Diamond Crossing  Interchange: Lehigh Valley Railroad Grade Crossing: W. Webster Avenue Grade Crossing: Westfield Avenue Interchange:Aldene: Central Railroad of New Jersey Maplewood Hilton Freight Office Hilton Wagon Scales Grade Crossing: Rutgers Street The Branch Lines Lehigh Valley Branch Rahway River Branch (Can Branch/Monsanto Branch) Rahway Valley Line (Branch to Maplewood) Customers of the Rahway Valley Railroad Customers on the Mainline in Summit Customers on the Mainline in Springfield Chemical Company of America  Customers on the Mainline in Union Customers on the Mainline in Kenilworth Customers on the Mainline in Roselle Park Customers on the Rahway Valley Line in Union Jaeger Lumber & Supply Company Customers on the Rahway Valley Line in Maplewood The Kroydon Company Woolley Fuel Company  Customers on the Rahway River Branch Customers on the Lehigh Valley Branch Locomotives & Equipment NY&NO - NOFJ - RVRR Locomotives Engine 1 Engine 2 Engine 3 Engine 4 Engine 5 Engine 6 Engine 7 Engine 8 Engine 9 Engine 10 Engine 11 Engine 12 Engine 13 Engine 14 Engine 15 Engine 16 Engine 17 Visiting Locomotives Engine 502 Engine 116 Engine 120 Engine 1804 Equipment Passenger Coaches Railbuses  Freight Cars MOW Equipment Caboose 102 Stories from Along the Way Major Events in Rahway Valley History First diesel on the RV, arrives from Erie #15 Meets the Corson Brothers Last Bit of Coal Smoke Rahway Valley is Unfair! The Big Strike of '59 Kenilworth Station Burns The UCTC Special The Rahway Valley's Last Run Memories of the RVRR Corinne Clark and the RVRR The Line's First Diesel Freight Salesman on the RVRR The Wire Train Articles from the Historians 1960's Mixed Trains on the Rahway Valley Another One for the Boys Booze on the Branch Daily Dalliances with the New Jersey Motorist Down to the Interchange The First 'Numero Uno' I've Been Working on the Railroad L.C.L. Freight The Rahway Valley's 'Other' Caboose Rail Headquarters Capital of New Jersey Railroad Date Nails, F.Y.I.   The Railroad That Golf Built The RV Shuffle - Passenger Movements  The Three Diamonds Velocipedes, Track Cars, and More  The RVRR in the News New Suburban Belt Line New Orange: A New Jersey Town that is Booming Right Along New Locomotive Right of Way for Extension  Extension to Summit Gossip on the Railroads  Gossip on the Railroads  A Railroad Station Robbed Rahway River Extension  New Orange Junction Railroad To Build New Railway Arthur J. Halladay Gossip on the Railroads RVRR Construction Railroad to Summit Labor Troubles at New Orange  Railroad's Right to Land Rahway Valley RR Open New Railway Line Links Jersey Towns  Golf Railroad to Baltusrol Will Be Running by August 15 Summit Smashes Bridges Pugnacious Summit Another Lesson from Jersey  Second Golf Railroad in the United States New Train Service to the Baltusrol Golf Links Three Regular Trains to Baltusrol New Jersey Has 3 Great Railroads  Rahway Valley R.R. Will Open Today Trains Start on the Rahway Valley New Line The "Baltusrol Special" Transportation Problem Solved Rahway Valley Bonds  Loses Fight About Switches Must Build Connection Important Decision Can't Hitch Up to the DL&W Interstate Board Enjoined More Prosperity for New Jersey  Passed into the hands of Louis Keller  The Escape from Andersonville Second-Class Railroad Property  Big Railroad Cases No Chances to Pay Dividends May Yet Get a Switch Pay Raise  RVRR Testing Out New Rail Car Repaired Sidewalks  Bar Firemen From Blaze Hilton Division of Rahway Valley Obituary: Charles J. Wittenberg Charles E. Wright factory  "Jitney" Train is Railroad's Defi to Anti-Traction Drive Historic Institution Threatened Obituary: N.C.J. English Obituary: Roger A. Clark Alcohol Racket Interests Canada  Plot to Smuggle Alcohol Revealed Dweller in Trolley Car is Jailed for False Fire Alarms  "Pop" Snyder Retires  Rahway Valley Railroad Is Short But in the Black Grade Crossing Authorized  All 5 Employees Walk Out, Tiny Jersey Road is Idle Little Rahway Valley Line Ponders Switch to Diesel Power Rahway Valley Traffic Increases Farm in Virginia new home for C.W. Nees family  Obituary: Louis Lawrence Rahway Valley RR Expects First Diesel After January 1 New Locomotive Arrives  1 Lung Line Modernized Accept $1,900 in Rail-Car Suit  Railroad of 16 Men, Facing Strike by 4 12 Keep N.J. Railroad Running While Other 3 Workers Strike  He'll Keep Line Going Despite Strike By Crew Tiny RR May Solve Commuter Problems  Obituary: Paul Donovan Veteran Railroader Says 'Boys Today Don't Know What Work Is' Rahway Railway Strike Ended  Truck Derails Locomotive Truck, Locomotive Crash In Rt. 22  Obituary: Benjamin Walker, Sr. Railroad Slips Four Women Bring Suit Time Running Out For Tracks  Obituary: George A. Clark Kenilworth man dies in accident  Killed in Crash That Train and Route 22 Fire Guts Railroad Depot Cahill Resigns FJ&G Post to Become Head of New Jersey Railroad Company Obituary: Robert G. Clark Old RR Station to stand just the way it was  Two sites under study for railroad museum Historical Station Destroyed  Small But Potent Local Rairoad Builds Anew Off Track RR Upgrading Underway Kenilworth history unit honors Rahway Valley Line  Kenilworth becomes 'rail headquarters capital of NJ' Small but successful, Rahway Valley RR chugs on  Basin construction threatens homeowner's yard, rail banks Railroad has long history of 'roles' in movie industry County steps in to find added freight for rail line D&O is buying the venerable Rahway Valley Railroad Born in Elmira 92 years ago, the RVRR Re-establishes a 'New York' Connection Rahway Valley Line being sold to D&O Landmark railroad office makes a northward journey Rail crossing repair slated for this month Where'd that train come from? Rail repair is delayed Train crossing is to be repaired this weekend Kenilworth, railroad agree to land deal  Obituary: Henry Waffle, Jr. The RVRR in the Magazines Springfield, N.J. on the Rahway Valley Railroad New Jersey's Streak o' Rust The Story of Number 15 Rahway Valley Railroad 15 mile freight line... Shortline Man The Rahway Valley Railroad: Soon to be a Fallen Flag? Staten Island - Rahway Valley Finale The Men & Women of the Rahway Valley Railroad Employees Paul Albright Pauline Beirach Bernard J. Cahill  George A. Clark Roger A. Clark Robert G. Clark Antonio Cuppari George E. Davis Darren Famular Frank J. Froat Christian Gottsleben Anthony C. Glutting Frazee T. Haines Arthur J. Halladay  Glenn A. Halladay Thomas J. Mangini Matthias O. Mitchell  Charles W. Nees Harry Reifsnyder  Joseph Shallcross William Snyder Harry Williamson Management New York & New Orange Railroad Company Robert Grimes Dennis Long William S. McCord Charles W. Manahan, Jr. George B. Frost Theodore C. English Nicholas C. J. English New Orange Four Junction Railroad Company William W. Cole Platt V. Bryan William S. McCord Albert M. Bennett Nicholas C. J. English Charles W. Manahan, Jr. Dennis Long Cross Country Railroad Company Rahway Valley Railroad Company Baltusrol Railroad Company Rahway Valley Company, Lessee Rahway Valley Line The Clark Family The Keller Family The Abandoned Rahway Valley Summit DL&W Interchange Bridge: Broad Street Spur Line: Summit Station & Yard Bridge: Morris Avenue Bridge: Ashwood Avenue Bridge: Russell Place Springfield Bridge:Shunpike Road Overpass: Interstate 78 Grade Crossing: Baltusrol Way Baltusrol Station Grade Crossing: Mountain Avenue Springfield Station  Bridge: Van Winkle's Creek  Grade Crossing:Meisel Avenue Bridge: Rahway River Trestle Union Bridge: Rahway River Trestle  Grade Crossing: Liberty Avenue Branch Junction Rahway Valley Line:  Bridge: Morris Avenue Bridge: Vauxhall Road Bridge: Stanley Terrace Grade Crossing: Route 22 Kenilworth Galloping Hill Golf Course Rahway River Branch: Grade Crossing: N. Michigan Ave. Grade Crossing: N. 22nd Street Grade Crossing: N. 21st Street Grade Crossing: N. 20th  Street Grade Crossing: N. 19th Street Grade Crossing: N. 18th Street Grade Crossing: N. 17th Street Grade Crossing: N. 16th Street Grade Crossing: N. 14th Street Grade Crossing: Monroe Ave. Grade Crossing: N. 12th Street Grade Crossing: N. 10th Street Grade Crossing: N. 8th Street The Kenilworth Yards Grade Crossing: Boulevard Grade Crossing: Clinton Ave. Overpass: Garden State Parkway Lehigh Valley Branch: Grade Crossing: Fairfield Ave. Grade Crossing: W. Colfax Ave. Grade Crossing: Market Street Grade Crossing: S. Michigan Ave. Grade Crossing: W. Colfax Ave. Roselle Park Grade Crossing: W. Colfax Ave. Lehigh Valley Branch: Grade Crossing: W. Colfax Ave. Grade Crossing: W. Webster Ave. Diamond Crossing Interchange: Lehigh Valley Railroad Grade Crossing: W. Webster Avenue Grade Crossing: Westfield Ave. Aldene: Interchange: Central Railroad of New Jersey Maplewood Grade Crossing: Rutgers Street   Engine 15 Engines 16 & 17 Paperwork & Memorabilia Memorabilia Baggage Tags Calling Cards NY&NO Corporate Seal Passes Rahway Valley RR Office Sign Train Tickets New York & New Orange Railroad Rahway Valley Railroad Half-Fare Tickets First Class Tickets  Special Excursion Tickets From Along the Tracks Railroad Spikes & Fish Plates Rails Switch Keys  Switch Stands Date Nails Documents Annual Reports of the Board of Railroad Commissioners Annual Reports to the Interstate Commerce Commission Annual Reports to the State Board of Taxes and Assessment Articles of Incorporation New York & New Orange Railroad New Orange Four Junction Railroad Cross-Country Railroad Rahway Valley Railroad Company Baltusrol Railroad Rahway Valley Company, Lessee Rahway Valley Line Card Way Bills Letters Official Railway Equipment Registers  Passenger Schedules Passenger Timetables Sidetrack Agreements  Blank Forms Freight Waybill Telegraphic Train Order  Modeling the Rahway Valley Railroad Jeff Jargosch's Raritan Valley Railroad  Suggested Reading Acknowledgments  Links

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