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The Rahway Valley Railroad in the News

New Suburban Belt Line New York Times June 11, 1897
New Orange: A New Jersey Town that is Booming Right Along Elmira Telegram July 18, 1897
New Locomotive Cranford Citizen July 15, 1899
New Orange Junction Railroad New York Times September 21, 1902
To Build New Railway New York Times August 9, 1903
RVRR Construction Brooklyn Daily Eagle August 3, 1904
Railroad's Right to Land New York Times December 25, 1904
Rahway Valley RR Open New York Times May 25, 1905
Golf Railroad to Baltusrol Will Be Running by August 15 Brooklyn Daily Eagle July 21, 1905
Summit Smashes Bridges The Sun October 6, 1905
Pugnacious Summit New York Times October 7, 1905
Second Golf Railroad in the United States Brooklyn Daily Eagle December 16, 1905
New Train Service to the Baltusrol Golf Links 1906
Three Regular Trains to Baltusrol Brooklyn Daily Eagle January 2, 1906
Trains Start on the Rahway Valley New Line New York Sun August 6, 1906
The "Baltusrol Special" Brooklyn Daily Eagle September 15, 1906
Transportation Problem Solved The Evening Post June 22, 1907
Loses Fight About Switches The New York Press July 10, 1908
Must Build Connection New York Times July 10, 1908
Important Decision The Syracuse Herald July 12, 1908
Can't Hitch Up to the DL&W New York Sun August 25, 1908
Interstate Board Enjoined The New York Press October 23, 1908
Passed into the hands of Louis Keller Cranford Citizen March 11, 1909
The Escape From Andersonville The New York
Dramatic Mirror
July 24, 1909
Big Railroad Cases The Syracuse Herald February 14, 1910
No Chances to Pay Dividends The Sheboygan Journal February 26, 1912
RVRR Testing Out New Rail Car Cranford Citizen July 25, 1912
Bar Firemen From Blaze New York Times August 10, 1915
Hilton Division of Rahway Valley New York Times November 1, 1915
Obituary: Charles J. Wittenberg New York Herald March 21, 1919
"Jitney" Train is Railroad's Defi to Anti-Traction Drive The Evening Telegram July 15, 1920
Historic Institution Threatened New York Sun April 8, 1921
Obituary: N.C.J. English The Evening Telegram May 12, 1922
Obituary: Roger A. Clark New York Sun Octover 4, 1932
Rahway Valley Railroad Is Short But in the Black Newark Evening News April 24, 1940
All 5 Employees Walk Out, Tiny Jersey Road is Idle New York Times May 25, 1946
Little Rahway Valley Line Ponders Switch to Diesel Power Newark Sunday News March 7, 1948
Obituary: Louis Lawrence Cranford Chronicle March 29, 1949
Rahway Valley RR Expects First Diesel After January 1 Cranford Chronicle November 16, 1950
1 Lung Line Modernized New York Times April 27, 1951
Railroad of 16 Men, Facing Strike by 4 New York Times January 14, 1959

He'll Keep Line Going Despite Strike By Crew

The Bulletin January 23, 1959
Obituary: Paul Donovan Herald Statesman March 31, 1959
Veteran Railroader Says, 'Boys Today Don't Know What Work Is' The Daily Times April 8, 1959
Truck Derails Locomotive New York Times July 19, 1960
Obituary: Benjamin Walker, Sr. The Evening News April 15, 1964
Obituary: George A. Clark New York Times April 9, 1969
Killed in Crash Cranford Chronicle October 24, 1970
That Train and Route 22 New York Times February 25, 1973
Fire Guts Railroad Depot Cranford Chronicle August 22, 1974
Cahill Resigns FJ&G Post to Become
Head of New Jersey Railroad Company
Leader Herald February 14, 1975
Obituary: Robert G. Clark Cranford Chronicle June 19, 1975
Small But Potent Local Railroad Builds Anew Cranford Chronicle August 2, 1979
Off Track Cranford Chronicle September 2, 1979
RR Upgrading Underway Cranford Chronicle May 22, 1980
Kenilworth becomes 'rail headquarters capital of NJ' Cranford Chronicle May 21, 1981
Railroad has long history of 'roles' in movie industry Cranford Chronicle August 23, 1984
County steps in to find added freight for rail line Cranford Chronicle December 5, 1985
D&O is buying the venerable Rahway Valley Railroad Cranford Chronicle December 18, 1986
Born in Elmira 92 years ago,
the RVRR re-establishes a 'New York' Connection
Cranford Chronicle December 18, 1986
Rahway Valley Line being sold to D&O Cranford Chronicle December 18, 1986
Obituary: Henry Waffle, Jr. The Daily Gazette April 13, 1991

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