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Black and white photograph. Work and train crews pose for the lensman circa 1883 shortly after the opening of the Bergen Tunnel. Rock blasted from the tunnel was used as fill on the riverfront to increase the size of the [railroad's] property. From…

Black and white photo postcard showing a dapper gentleman posing on the west side of the old railroad cut that brought the North Hudson Railway Company trains through the Palisades from a trestle that attached to a giant passenger elevator on the…

Color print with caption as follows: The New York, Ontario and Western's Crack 'Mountaineer' passenger train slows for its stop at Bear Mountain along the Hudson River on its inaugural run on June 24, 1938. The NY, O & W Railway was a lesser…

Complete issue of The Marker - volume 5, number 2 from September, 1946. The Marker was the newsletter of the North Jersey Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. This issue was devoted to the history of the North Hudson County Railway and…

Article from The Manufacturer and Builder, November 1891. The Largest Passenger Elevators in the World. The largest elevators, for carrying passengers, in the world, have just been completed on the banks of the Hudson, near Weehawken. The high table-…

A railfan's recollections of the Weehawken railyards in the 1950s.

Black and white photograph(1895) of the great elevator from the book, The Hackensack Water Company 1869 - 1969 by Adrian Leiby and Nancy Wichman. The caption reads: Steam elevator at Weehawken which lowered passenger-laden trolleys and other vehicles…

Assorted documents from the North Hudson County Railway

Black and white photograph of the West Shore railroad roundhouse at Weehawken, dated 1936.

This article from the August 9, 1912 issue of the Railway Age Gazette describes the ventilation system in place in the Weehawken railway tunnel.