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Railroads -- New Jersey

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Miscellaneous items (R) relating to New Jersey, 1718 - 2000

 Collection — Box 9
Scope and Contents Box 9: Radio: CB Radio Call Cards and QSL Card for C. Wilson Norwood, Caldwell NJ (c. 1936, undated); Summation of research by W. Santner relating to A. Frederick Collins, his life and work (1973); The Collins Wireless Bulletin (July, Oct. 1909); various periodicals; New Jersey 1510 (Randolph) Stationery; "A Souvenir of RCA Cherry Hill" (c. 1955).Railroads: "North Jersey Electric Railway Historical Society: 2000 Report of Activities," and "1860-1960 ...and still...
Dates: 1718 - 2000

New Jersey Canals Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NJ Canals-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents File labeled as "N.J. Canals" contains booklets, "Appeal of Commodore R.F. Stockton to the People of New Jersey, in relation to the Existing Contracts between the State and the United Delaware and Raritan and Camden and Amboy Railroad Companies (1849)," and "Speech of Hon. John M.Read at the Regular Quarterly Meeting of the Joint Board of Directors of the United Delaware and Raritan Canal Company, Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company, and New Jersey Railroad and...
Dates: 1849 - 1971

New Jersey Railroads Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG NJ Railroads-(Main)
Scope and Contents

This collection includes Communication Tickets (1857-58), Timetables (1901, 1951), General Plan of Yards and Waterfront (Jersey City, N.J.), Acts incorporating The New Jersey Southern Rail Road Co., The Long Branch and Sea Shore Rail Road Co., and Acts Supplementary Thereto (1870), files labeled as "The Nine-County Public Transportation Crisis (1964)" and "Erie-Lackawana (1964-71)," and publications and brochures of NJ Transit.

Dates: 1870 - 1971

Van Court Railroad Manuscript

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MG Van Court-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents This post binder contains typed pages, index cards, drawings and at least one letter. The material concerns New Jersey railroads. It includes maps, company histories, line histories, and various facts (gauge, line length in miles). Lines/companies are roughly sorted by region. Latest dates are 1948, and "Hoboken Manufacturing Railroad" is listed, which ended in 1954, so it can be placed around 1950. Inclues every railroad in New Jersey from Absecon & Bay to Jersey City to Lackawanna to...
Dates: c. 1950