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All the cards were in place, or so it
seemed, for the Rahway Valley to make its Lacakwanna connection near
the close of the year 1906. The Rahway Valley's tracks came within
mere feet of the Lackawanna, all that had to be done was to install
the switch.
Harry Dankel , the Secretary and General Manager of
the Rahway Valley Railroad at the time, submitted a formal letter to
the Lackawanna people to apply for a connection to their road in
Summit on October 3, 1906. |
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Delaware, Lackawanna
& Wextern R.R. Co.
Mr. T. E. Clark, General
Superintendent.
Scranton, Pennsylvania.
October
3, 1906
Dear Sirs:-
The Rahway Valley
Railroad Company has built and equipped its line from Aldene (there
uniting with the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey) to a point
adjoining the right-of-way of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Railroad Company, in the city of Summit, New Jersey; the beginning
and terminal points both being in the county of Union. The Rahway
Valley Railroad Company has at Summit extended a lateral, or side
track, to and on a grade with our right-of-way line at that place,
at a point where a connection with your railroad is reasonably
practicable and be put in with safety.
On account of the large
interstate freight tonnage offered by its patrons to the Rahway
Valley Railroad Company for movement via the Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western Railroad Company, it is desirous of making the
necessary track, with switch, connection at the point above named for
the purpose of handling such interstate traffic which as may be
offered. The amount of freightage and business which will be
furnished to the two railroads is sufficient to justify the
construction and maintence of the track connections.
The Rahway Valley
Railroad Company hereby submits this as an application for authority
to make such connection at the place above indicated.
Maps have been prepared
by our engineers showing proposed location of as witch and other
necessary information. These will be submitted for your examination
and approval, if so desired.
I make this application
under direction of the Board of Directors of the Rahway Valley
Railroad Company.
Kindly favor us with an
early reply.
Your truly,
H.F.
Dankel
Secretary |
| Enclosed with Mr. Dankel's letter were also
letters, applying for the junction at Summit, from the Charles E.
Wright Company and the American Circular Loom Corporation. Both of
these companies were shippers that utilized the Rahway
Valley. |
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Delaware &
Lackawanna & Western R.R. Co.,
Mr. T. E. Clark, General
Superintendent,
Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Gentlemen:-
We are
manufacturers of tools and machines for light wood working purposes,
and have been situated in this place for the last seven years. We
were incorporated under the Laws of the State of New Jersey on
May28, 1903 with a capital of $200,000.00. We have a large factory,
three stories of which are occupied in the manufacture of our tools
and machines. We have a siding of the RAHWAY Valley Railroad right
up to our platform, from which we load and unload freight
shipments.
We make shipments
by freight to every state in the Union and Canada and to Mexico, but
the larger part of the freight shipments that we send out and the
shipments that we receive come from Buffalo, New York and
surrounding places, which could be much more directly reached from
here by the way of the Rahway Valley and Delaware and Lackawanna and
Western Railroad if the two roads were connected at the terminal of
the Rahway Valley Railroad st Summit, New Jersey.As it is now, our
freight shipments that come over your road are very much delayed
after reaching Hoboken, if they come that way, and at other points
on your road, when they are billed in other direction. We have a
great many freight shipments from the Park Machinery Company and
other large concerns in Buffalo, and on several occasions it has
taken from six to seven weeks to get these shipments here, and we
are thoroughly convinced that if you had the connection spoken of at
Summit we could save a great deal of time in such shipments, and
time is a very important element in our business, Taking all these
things into consideration, we , therefore:
APPLY TO YOU to
construct, maintain and operate a connection with a switch with the
Rahway Valley Railroad at its branch or private side-track in the
city of Summit, New Jersey, so that our manufactured products can ce
sent directly from our factory by the way of the Rahway Valley
Railroad and the Delaware and Lackawanna and Western Railroad
through the states of New Jersey and New York to Buffalo and other
points outside the state of New Jersey where our manufactured
products are sold and delivered, and also that freight shipments to
us from the state of New Jersey and from outside the state of New
Jersey on the line of the Delaware and Lackawanna and Western
Railroad may come to us over said Delaware and Lackawanna and
Western Railroad and Rahway Valley Railroad to us here. We have had
the situation and surroundings of the locality where the Rahway
Valley Railroad ends, and of the surrounds of the locality where
Delaware and Lackawanna and Western Railroad as it is now in the
City of Summit, New Jersey, and we are satisfied that a connection
in that place is practible and possible of being carried out, and
that the same can be done with perfect safety to both railroads and
to the public in large. And in consideration of the premises herein
we will furnish and cause to be furnished such business from and to
our manufacturing plant in Kenilworth to justify the construction
and maintence of such swirch connection as is above referred to at
Summit, New Jersey.
This application is
made in order to facilitate our business as a shipper tendering
interstate traffic for transportation, and we most earnestly request
that you will at once take such measures as are necessary
furor the construction and immanence of such track connection with
the Rahway Valley Railroad in the city of Summit, New
Jersey.
The Charles E.
Wright
Company
President |
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Delaware Lackawanna &
Western RR Co.
Mr. T. E. Clarke., Generla
Superintendent.
Scranton, Pa.
October
3, 1906
Dear Sirs:-
The American Circular
Loom Co. (incorporated) is engaged at Kenilworth, Union County, New
Jersey., in the manufacture and shipping of Enameled Iron Pipe. This
plant, which employs a large number of men, is located on the Rahway
Valley RR Co., and it ships its manufactured goods over the same.
The plant has been located here for years. It also has a
manufacturing plant located at Chelsea, Mass. Our business which is
constantly growing requires us to ship our freight (being our
manufactured product) to Buffalo, N.Y., and numerous points in the
far west all the way through the Pacific coast, we having our own
warehouse in Chicago, Ill., and San Francisco, Cal. We desire to
ship over the tracks of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western RR
Co., but are prevented now in so doing because the Rahway Valley
(with which our plant by side track connections) makes no track
connections with D. L. & W. RR. We are compelled in shipping to
Buffalo, and points further west, to send our goods by a round-about
way, which we wish to avoid.
We now make application
to you to construct, maintain, and operate a switch connection with
the Rahway Valley RR Co. at its branch or private side-track in the
city of Summit, so that our manufactured products can be sent
directly from our factory via the Rahway Valley RR and the D. L.
& W. RR Co. through the states of New Jersey and New York, to
Buffalo and points west where our manufactured products are sold,
and delivered.
Our examination of the
locality at Summit assures us that a connection between the two
railroads is, at that place, reasonably tractable, and can be put in
with safety to both the Rahway Railroad, and to the Delaware
Lackawanna & Western RR. We are in position to furnish, and will
furnish sufficient business from our plant at Kenilworth, N.J. to
justify the construction and maintence of a switch connection at
Summit.
We make this application
for a connection to be made between and two railroads at Summit in
order to facilate our business as a shipper tendering interstate
traffic for transportation, and request that you will at once take
measures for the construction and maintence of a track connection
with the Rahway Valley RR, at the City of Summit, N.J.
Very truly
yours,
American Circular Loom
Co. |
| The matter, of granting a connection to the Rahway
Valley, bounced around from department to department within the
Lackawanna, even making its way to the desk of W.H. Truesdale,
President of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western
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Mr. T. E. Clarke,
General Superintendent,
Scranton,
Pa.
October
15, 1906
Dear Sir:
Referring to your of the
10th inst., herewith, and enclosing several communications to you,
one from the Secretary of the Rahway Valley Railroad and others from
gentlemen representing several industries located on that line, all
urging that we permit the Rahway Valley Railroad Company to connect
with our line at the point near Summit, where they have evidently
graded up to us for that purpose, it seems to me this should first
be considered as an operating proposition.
In a
general way I have understood that this Rahway Valley enterprise is
laid out for a sort of belt line proposition and will eventually
extend to tidewater at some point in Lower New York Bay in the
vicinity of Perth Amboy. This with a view of doing a large freight
business between the different lines it will cross and
industries which will be located at different points on its line of
railway.
The things we have got to
consider then is the ultimate possibility of having a consideration
freight business to interchange with that line of railway should we
make connection with it at the point they urge.
My own idea
is that it would be a pretty serious matter for us to undertake to
handle any large freight traffic to and from Rahway Valley Road at
the proposed point of connection and should the business develop
largely, it would sometime in the future seriously interfere with
the handling of our large suburban traffic. These people picked out
their own point of connection without consultation and us and are
evidently now attempting to forces to grant them a connection under
the provisions of the new railroad law passed by the last
Congress.
It is an important matter
and I think Mr. Ketcham and yourself had better look it over quite
carefully, doing so without undue delay and submit your views as to
the advisability of our granting such connection. If you advise
against it, I wish you would give your reason fully and in detail. I
think I will have Mr. Jenney draw the form of reply we will make to
this application and in talking with him he suggests that if we feel
we should decline it, we ought to give in our letter advising thee
people to this effect our reasons quite clearly and fully for doing
so.
Yours truly,
W. H.
Truesdale
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Mr. T. E.
Clarke,
General Superintendent
November 2,
1906.
Dear Sir:
Your letter of October
16th., file 18718, and returning letter from President Truesdale
relative connection with the Rahway Valley Railroad Co. at Summit.
In accordance with our conference with Chief Engineer Bush I beg to
advise as follows:
We built a yard at West
Summit to handle business to and from P. & D. Branch also to
hold any cars for Summit proper. The facilities we have in Summit
yard are adequate for the handling of our own business. As to an
interchange with the Rahway Valley RR at that point we have no
facilities for such an arrangement, neither could we handle an
extensive business between the point where they propose the
connection and our West Summit yard, without interfering with our
passenger traffic; furthermore Summit is increasing to the point
where more trains will end there instead of decrease, as the
suburban business west of Summit to Port Morris without great
interference account of the grade westward and
eastward.
You
appreciate that it has been our intention for a long time, when our
third track facilities are completed between Newark and Summit, and
proposed cut-off between Secaucus and Harrison is built, that all
freight from the west for points this side of Summit will be handled
via Secaucus, returning cars from that territory via the same route,
thus confining ourselves to freight movement down old road as far as
Summit proper, and West Summit for P. & D. points, thus
materially decreasing the amount of freight handled between Port
Morris and Summit.
With the competition of
our new tunnel and completion of third track, the prospect of an
increase that we have had during the last five years between Hoboken
and Morristown, will doubtless make it necessary during certain
hours of the day to have fifteen minute service to Morristown, also
more trains should be run in hours, thus increasing the number if
passenger trains in the territory mentioned.
In doing this, it would
complicate matters very much to undertake to handle increased
freight traffic.
Yours
truly,
Superintendent |
| The Rahway Valley Railroad awaited its response, as
the matter moved about the many different offices and departments of
the Lackawanna. While the RV remained patient, others such as the
Charles E. Wright Company, were
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Delaware & Lackawanna
& Western R.R. Co.,
Mr. T. E. Clerk, General
Superintendent,
Scranton, Pennsylvania.
November 21, 1906
Dear Sir:
On October 3rd last we
wrote you a very long letter on a very important subject, and up to
this time we have not received any reply from you to the same. That
you received the letter is certain, because we have your receipt
from the post office department. We do not know, of course, what
rules of courtesy are applicable to the officers and servants of a
great corporation, but common courtesy certainly does demand that
letters should be answered within a reasonable time, unless there is
some good and sufficient reason for not doing so. Our letter was
certainly a courteous one, and upon a matter of vital importance to
us from business stand point and it also should be of sufficient
importance to you to elicit a reply.
We are writing this to
call your attention to the matter expecting that we will receive a
reply to the same in due reason.
Thanking you in advance
for any courtesy you may show us in this matter, we remain.
Yours truly,
The
Charles E. Wright
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| Finally, after waiting for a response for more than
a month and a half, Mr. Dankel finally received his answer from Mr.
T.E. Clarke, General Superintendent of the Lackawanna, on
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Mr. H.F. Dankel,
Secy
Rahway Valley Railroad Co.,
Kenilworth, N.J.
December 1,
1906.
Dear Sir:-
I am in receipt of your
favor of Oct. 3rd, advising me that your company has built and
equipped its line from Aldene to Summit, in Union County, N.J., and
requesting that we assent to a connection at the letter point. I,
personally, was not familiar with the situation, and have conferred,
as my time permitted, with other officials of our company, in order
that I might intelligently pass upon your request.
As you are doubtless
aware, we have two lines of railroad extending from Dover to
Hoboken, the northerly line being known as our Boonton Branch, and
the southerly line, the old Morris & Essex main line. The
Boonton Branch has been sent aside for use of freight trains and
through passenger trains, in order the the old Morris and Essex main
line might be exclusively used to accommodate the suburban passenger
travel along the line of that road. At the present time, we are
engaged in operating 100 passenger trains daily by the suggested
point of connection at Summit, and this traffic is growing to such
an extent that it becomes necessary for us to increase the number of
trains from time to time. At present the only freight that we carry
over this line is cosigned to the localities along the line of that
road, except such as is cosigned to and from points on the Passaic
& Delaware Railroad connecting at West Summit. Between Summit
and Dover the grades are so considerable as to interfere largely
with the economical carriage of freight trains, and we have already
planned to divert freight shipments to and from points east of
Summit along the line of the Morris & Essex Road, via Harrison
and Secaucus to our Boonton Branch. We feel that our first public
duty is to give the best passenger service possible to the
increasing number of persons residing along the line of the Morris
& Essex Road who go daily to and from the city of New York, and
that we ought not to assent to any connection which would hamper
such service. All of our own future plans as to the development of
the Morris & Essex division are guided by the foregoing
consideration.
So far as the present
shippers upon the line of your road are concerned, we should not
suppose sufficient business would be furnished to warrant any
connection with our line. Even if the foregoing considerations were
not insurmountable objections thereto, we are advised that the plans
for the development of your company contemplate traffic to and from
Ocean Lines at Perth Amboy, and that at some time in the early
future very considerable freight traffic may be moved over the line
of your road. If this be true, you will see that it would be
impossible for us to handle such traffic over our Morris & Essex
division, not only because of the way which such traffic would
interfere with our passenger service, but because of the grades
between Summit and Dover.
We confess that we have
no feeling of responsibility in connection with this matter to any
of the shippers upon the line of your road, because of the fact that
your road was constructed to Summit without any advices from you to
any officials of your company, so far as I can discover, that you
contemplated connecting with us at that point, and without
consultation with us as it whether it would be practical or feasible
for you to make such a connection at such point. If you had taken
the matter up with us, we should have advised you as above.
Moreover, even if it were possible for us to arrange to handle
freight in conjunction with your road, over our Morris & Essex
line, we could not assent to a connection at Summit. For many
reasons which it is unnecessary to relate in detail, that point is
not a feasible or practical one from our point of view. We have
already constructed a storage yard st West Summit, and have not
contemplated any freight business at the point you suggest for an
interchange nor arranged therefore.
For reasons above suggested,
we must respectfully decline to assent to the suggested
connection.
Yours truly,
General
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Harry Dankel, and the Rahway Valley Railroad, did
not let this matter pass without conflict. The Lackawanna's response
was not acceptable. The Rahway Valley Railroad was being operated at
a deficit, a connection with the Lackawanna seemed to promise a
solution to all the RV's financial woes.
Dankel retained the services of Elmer
L. McKirgan
, a prominent and successful attorney from
Summit as well as a member of the Rahway Valley Railroad's Board of
Directors, to fight the Lackawanna's decision and compell them to
make a connection.
McKirgan took the matter to the Interstate
Commerce Commission, and after some delay a decision was handed down
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The Interstate
Commerce Commission, the governmental body which
regulated the railroads, ordered the DL&W to install a switch
connection with the Rahway Valley Railroad.
For the Rahway Valley the ICC's decision was
satisfactory, but they did not intend to wait for the Lackawanna to
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Mr. T. E.
Clarke,
General Superintendent.
August 19,
1908
Dear Sir:-
We have been watching the
matter of attempt by the Rahway Valley RR to connect with our road
at Summit, N.J. Last night a force of men was working there and
about 1:00 AM they seemed to have made all arrangements to make the
connection. We communicated with Mr. Rine who arranged to have
engine 968 sent from South Orange and placed on track so that no
connection could be made. When this was done the men put out their
lights and left.
Yours Truly,
Chief
Special Agent |
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Dear Sir:
Rahway Valley people have
instructed their foreman to remove tracks off our property at
Summit, which will be done early this morning.
Yours Truly,
E.M.
R. |
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The Lackawanna quelled the Rahway
Valley's physical offensive and intended to end its legal offensive
as well. The Lackawanna, represented by Mr. William S. Jenney,
brought the matter to the United States Circuit
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Mr. Arthur
Hale,
General Agent,
American Railway Association,
Grand
Central Station,
Chicago, Ill.
October 19,
1909
Dear Sir:
Replying to your letter
of August 30, making inquiry relative to case 2239, before the
Interstate Commerce Commission, - connection desired by the Rahway
Valley Railroad with this company. I am just in receipt of advice
from your Legal Department giving the following status of this
matter:
“A proceeding was brought
before the Commission by the Rahway Valley Railroad Company to
obtain an order of the commission requiring our company to make a
physical connection of our railroad with the Rahway Valley Railroad
Company at Summit, New Jersey. After a hearing an order was made by
the commission requiring us to make the connection. We brought an
action against the Commission in the United States Courts to enjoin
the enforcement of the order upon the ground that the section of the
Interstate Commerce Act under which the complaint moved, did not
contemplate the compelling of a connection upon the application of a
shipper. The Commission took an appeal from the order of the Circuit
Judges top the United States Supreme Court. and the case has been
advanced upon the calendar of the Supreme Court and will doubtless
be argued during the winter. Meanwhile, the American Circular Loom
Company, a shipper on the line of the Rahway Valley Railroad has
brought another proceeding against the Commission to to compel the
connection, which is now pending before the Commission. We propose
to continue to resist any effort to comply us to make the
connection, upon the ground that any connection with our line of the
road through Summit, would interfere with our suburban passenger
service.”
I will endeavor to keep
you posted on further progress of the case.
Yours truly,
General
Superintendent. |
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Judge Lacombe, of the United States
Circuit Court, granted a preliminary injunction on October 22,
1908 against the Interstate Commerce Commission, suspending the
ICC's order for a switch connection to be made at Summit.
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The Interstate Commerce Commission,
not to have its power diminished, took the case to the next level:
the United States Supreme Court, in a case titled ICC v.
DL&W. |
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The United States Supreme Court, in
the matter of ICC
v. DL&W, decided in favor of the Lackawanna on
March 7, 1910, that the Interstate Commerce Commission could not
force the Lackawanna to grant a connection with the Rahway Valley
Railroad.
The Rahway Valley Railroad however did not let the
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Apparently, within the Supreme Court's final
decision was a clause that such a switch connection could be made if
applications made by shippers along the railroad warranted its
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T. E. Clarke,
Esq.,
Gen. Supt. D. L. & W. R. R. Co.,
Scranton,
Pa.
Dear Sir:-
The F. & F. Nurseries are located at Springfield,
Union County, New Jersey, and are engaged in raising and shipping of
shrubs, trees, and other nursery stock. The Company’s nurseries are
extensive and are located on the in of the Rahway Valley Railroad
Company, a lateral, branch line to your Company, and its product is
shipped over the same. Our business which is constantly growing
requires us to ship our freight outside of the state of New Jersey
to the state of Pennsylvania and the state of New York. We desire to
ship over the tracks of your road, but cannot do so advantageously
because the Rahway Valley Railroad Company makes no track out
of state points, which we desire to reach, on your line, to either
have shipments carted from the Rahway Valley R.R. Company’s cars to
your cars at Summit or send our goods by a roundabout way either of
the above methods are expensive, unsatisfactory and detrimental to
our business.
We now make application
to you to construct, maintain and operate a switch connection with
the Rahway Valley Railroad Company with its branch or side track at
the City of Summit, which extends to your side track upon which your
Coal Pockets are located, so that our shipments can be sent directly
from our nurseries via of the Rahway Valley Railroad Company and the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company through the
states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and through the states of New
Jersey and New York to points outside of the state of New Jersey,
where our products are sold and delivered.
We have made application to
the Rahway Valley Company, requesting them to procure a switch
connection between their tracks and yours at Summit as aforesaid,
and they have agreed to provide said connection and to maintain the
same. Our examination of the locality at Summit assures us that the
connection at Summit between the two railroads is at the place
aforesaid, reasonably practicable and can be put in with safety to
both the Rahway Valley Railroad Company and the Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western Railroad Company.
We are in a position to
furnish and will furnish sufficient business from our nurseries at
Springfield aforesaid to justify the maintence and construction of a
switch connection at Summit.
We make this application
for a connection to be made between the two railroads at Summit, in
order to facilitate our business as a shipper tendering interstate
traffic for transportation and request that you will at once take
measures for the installation, construction, and maintence of a
track connection with the Rahway Valley Railroad Company at the City
of Summit.
Yours truly,
F. &
F. NURSERIES.
Wm. Flower,
Mgr. |
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Mr. Flower's application to the Lackawanna
apparently fell on deaf ears. The matter of the RV/DL&W
connection would not be brought up again for another nineteen
years. |
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The coming of the Great
Depression in 1929, and the resulting financial ruin of
many railroads across the United States, set the stage to reopen the
discussion of a connection between the Rahway Valley Railroad and
the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad. This along with the
cunning wit of the Rahway Valley's new management: Roger
A. Clark and his son George
A. Clark, ensured the success of negotiations with the
Lackawanna. A connection with the DL&W was constructed and ready
for service on March 22, 1930 at 7 a.m.
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Kenilworth, N.J. March 6,
1930
Mr. A.S. Lewis,
Supt.
Car Service, DL&W RR.,
Scranton, Pa.
Dear Sir:
As you are probably aware
a connection is now being made between our respective Companies at
Summit, N.J. which will be turned over to traffic around April
1st.
If you will refer to
Railway Line Clearances, you will find that our Maximum Load Limit
shows up as: Cars of 50 tons capacity or under may be loaded 10%
above marked capacity, maximum lading allowed 110,000 pounds. This
is one point that we must strictly adhere to in connection with you
line as we have one light bridge on our connecting track at Summit,
N.J., that will carry no heavier tonnage. Cars in excess of the
above weight if received in interchange at Summit, N.J., will have
to be transferred as we will be unable to handle at this time though
necessarey bridge work will be done to take care of heavier lading
at later date.
Am enclosing herewith a
copy of Lehigh Valley R.R. Circular T-19 of October 31, 1929,
covering this feature and would suggest that you issue a like
circular for the information and protection of all concerned as we
expect to develop a nice interchange buisness with your line just as
soon as rates are worked in and this is now being done.
Will you also see that
this office is furnished with one copy each of all embargo notices
issued by your line?
Would appreciate hearing
from you at your convenience.
Very truly yours,
Geo.A.Clark
Gen.Frt.Agt. |
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Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company
Office Superintendent Transportation
Bethlehem, Pa., Oct, 31,
1929
TO ALL CONCERNED:
Circular T-19
To Rahway Valley Railroad
publish the following restriction in the “Railway Line Clearances”:
“cars of 50 tons capacity
or under may be loaded 10% above marked capacity, maximum lading
allowed 110,000 lbs.”
This means that the
Rahway Valley Railroad are unable to handle cars where the weight of
lading exceeds 110,000 lbs. therefore, cars should not be loaded in
excess of this weight when destined to or via that line.
Please call the attention
of shippers and other interested, particularly coal shippers, to see
that this restriction is properly observbed.
J.N. Haines,
Supt.
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Hoboken, N.J.,
March 20, 1930
Messrs. G.J. Ray,
R.M. White.
J.J. Pierce.
J.E. Saunders.
J. Kielty.
Gentlemen:-
Effective Saturday, March
22, 1930, 7:00 A.M., connection with the Rahway Valley railroad at
Summit, N.J., will be complete and ready for operation.
Yours truly.
[Illegible signature] |
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The Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railroad Company
Accounting Department
Scranton,
Pa.
March 28th,
1930
RE: Rahway Valley
Railroad- Summit, N.J.
Mr. G.E. Hustis,
Comptroller.
Dear Sir: -
Please refer to your file
620.91 covering the subject of interchange of freight traffic with
Rahway Valley Railroad via Summit, N.J.
Mr. George A. Clark,
General Freight Agent, Rahway Valley Railroad and Mr. W.A. Kinkel,
Freight Agent, Summit, N.J., called upon us yesterday morning for
the purpose of discussing in detail, all matters pertaining to
accounting requirements.
Mr. A.L. Rogers of Mr.
Moffatt’s office, was also present in the interest of any matters
pertaining to the Operating Department, involving additional work
and expense at the Station.
It was the consensus of
opinion, that the most practical method for the accounting of this
traffic and the financial settlement of same would be on an
interchange basis, similar to the practice now in effect between the
Rahway Valley Railroad and the CRR of NJ and also with the Lehigh
Valley Railroad.
On inbound traffic
originating on the DL&W RR or beyond our Line, destined to
stations on the Rahway Valley Railroad, Agent at Summit, N.J. will
take the waybills into his account, from which freight bills will be
prepaired, and a copy will be furnished the Rahway Valley Railroad
to move with the freight, thus avoiding the necessity of rebilling
by our Agent.
All waybills received
will be abstracted on weekly reports which will show the amount of
arbitrary due then Rahway Valley Railroad.
On Forwarded traffic
originating on the Rahway Valley Railroad destined to points on the
DL&W or beyond, Agent at Summit will waybill such traffic as
from Summit, N.J., showing the Rahway Valley arbitrary in the
advance column of the waybill, the total advances for the current
month to be covered by an interchange certificate, showing the
amount due Rahway Valley Railroad.
The combined amount of
Rahway Valley proportion of revenue on Received and Forwarded
Traffic will be summarized by the Agent who will render a monthly
report to this Department, when same will be checked and verified
and an interchange certificate issued showing the grand total due
the Rahway Valley for the month.
Mr. Clark stated that the
rates and tariffs were now in the course of preparation and that it
was not expected that the traffic would be very heavy as yet.
Yours truly,
Mr. E.B. Moffatt,
General Superintendent |
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The Delaware Lackawanna
And Western Railroad Company
Office Of Superintendent Car
Service
Scranton, Pa., April 9,
1930.
Circular No. 38-A.
(Superseding Circular No. 38, March 11, 1930)
TO ALL CONCERNED:
Until Park Avenue Bridge
at Summit, N.J. has been strengthened, cars of more than 80,000
pounds nominal capacity must not be loaded for delivery to the
Rahway Valley Railroad at Summit, N.J.; however, such cars not
exceeding 80,000 pounds nominal capacity may be loaded to the
maximum gross weight permitted under M.O.B. Rule 86, as outlined in
Circular No. 1-G.
It is expected that bridge will be strengthened within
the near future and restrictions will then be modified, but until
notice is received, all concerned should see
that cars which, because of weight limitation, cannot be handled
over the bridge as Summit, N.J., are not loaded for delivery to the
Rahway Valley Railroad.
A.S. Lewis,
Supt. Car
Service. |
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April 11, 1930
Rahway Valley Railroad-
Summit
Mr. E.M. Rine,
Vice President and
General Manager.
Dear Sir:
On March
22, 1920 the physical connection with the Rahway Valley R.R. at
Summit, N.J. became effective. Shortly thereafter a conference was
held in office of A.F.&P.R. Ross with Mr. George A. Clark,
General Freight Agent of the Rahway Valley R.R. and Mr. W. A.
Kinkel, Agent for this Company at Summmit present, for the purpose
of discussing the accounting requirements.
Mr. Clark explained in
detail how buisness to and from his line was handled with the Lehigh
Valley and C.R.R., after which a plan was agreed upon embodying the
features of the other two arrangements best suited to our
conditions. In brief, this contemplates that all freight destined to
points on the Rahway Valley R.R. will be billed to Summit and
transferred to the Rahway Valley on a copy of a freight bill, which
will do away with the necessity of rebilling it at Summit. The
charges will be accounted for in line with current practices and
settlement of the Rahway Valley’s proportion will be made direct to
that line. With the exception of about twenty consignees located at
different points on the Rahway Valley R.R. all freight must be
prepaid. These twenty or so consignees now have credit on the C.R.R.
and Lehigh Valley and application has or will be made for similar
credit at our Summit, N.J. Station, from which point the freight
bills will be mailed direct to the consignee.
Freight originating on the Rahway
Valley R.R. will be waybilled to Summit at the Rahway Valley
proportion and there rebilled to destination showing the Rahway
Valley R.R. arbitrary in the advanced column according to R.A.O.A.
rules.
While this will involve
some extra work at Summit, it was felt that the present force could
take care of same without additional help, at least for a year or
so, until the volume of buisness shows a material increase.
Respectfully yours,
Nat
Duke |
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Hoboken, N.J.,
June
4th, 1930.
Mr. E.B.
Moffatt,
General Superintendent,
Scranton, Pa.
Dear Sir:
Mr. Geo. A. Clark, Vice
President of the Rahway Valley Railroad, requests permission to take
water at our crane at Summit, N.J. in case his crew runs short while
working over in that territory.
The nearest water
facilities the Rahway Valley have are located at Kenilworth, about
eight miles from Summit.
I see no objection to
allowing them to take water as the movement to the P&D main at
the station will be under interlocking protection, and would
recomment that we authorize them to do this billing them the
standard rate for tank of water.
Will you kindly advise.
Yours truly,
[Illegible signature]
Superintendent |
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it is in yard limits- Do not let their engins go on our Mtown Branch
main track |
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June 5, 1930.
Mr. R.M. White,
Superintendent, Hoboken.
Dear
Sir:-
Answering yours of June 4 in connection with request
received from Mr. George A. Clark, Vice President of the Rahway
Valley Railroad, that they be permitted to take water at our crane
at Summit, N.J. when they run short while engine is working in that
territory.
There is no objection to
permitting them to take such water as they need, as the movement to
our crane is within yard limits. It should be understood, however,
that they are not to permit their engines to go on our Morristown
Branch main track.
Report should be made to
you at the end of each month of the number of tanks of water
furnished to their engines and advice given to Chief Engineer Ray,
who will prepare bill at the usual rate.
Yours truly,
Mr. G.J.
Ray |
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