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Train Ticket - Kaaterskill Junction to Weehawken
Train ticket from Kaaterskill Junction in the Catskills to Weehawken. A dollar five bought you a journey from Kaaterskill Junction to our fair city.
Tags: Railroad, Transportation
Chiquita Bananas Travel NYC
Article from the April, 1953 issue of the New York Central Railroad Headlight Newsletter featuring the Banana Building on the Weehawken waterfront... Text of the article: BIG BUNCHES OF BANANAS, CALLED STEMS: ARE STACKED GENTLY IN REFRIGERATOR CARS…
Tags: Railroad, Transportation, Waterfront
Gigantic Passenger Elevator of the North Hudson County Railway
Article and engravings from Scientific American - October 31 1891 describing and showing the giant elevator that brought ferry loads of passengers to the railway at the top of the Palisades.
Includes a drawing of the Eldorado!
Tags: Eldorado, Railroad, Transportation
New York Central Derailment Letter
Letter from the New York Central Railroad to its customers apologizing for the inconvenience caused by a derailment on February 3rd, 1953.
Tags: Railroad
Steam Elevator at Weehawken
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…
Tags: Elevator, Railroad, Waterfront
Tunneling the Palisades at Weehawken, NJ
Engravings from Harper's Weekly - January 28th, 1882 (Volume XXVI, No. 1310) showing the work on the Weehawken side of the railroad tunnels to New York.
Tags: Railroad, Transportation
New York Central Railroad Police Badge - Weehawken
Beautiful old eagle top nickel shield from the (defunct) NYC Railroad Company. The New York Central hired Traffic Officers from the Hudson County Boulevard Police Department from 1923 to 1947 to direct traffic at the New York Central Railroad Station…
Tags: Police, Railroad, Transportation
Railroad Has 72 Per Cent Grade
At Weehawken, New Jersey, there is one of the queerest railways ever built. It is a 300 ft. incline with a grade of 72 per cent. Cars 20 ft. wide and 40 ft. long capable of carrying a load of 50,000 lb. are used on the line. These cars are operated…
Tags: Railroad, Transportation, Waterfront
A Trainload of Dates
Black and white photo of a New York Central Railroad train (loco # 3775) going westbound from Weehawken laden with dates. Caption: PHOTO OF FIRST SECTION 75 CARLOADS DATES SHIPPED BY HILLS BROTHERS CO, NEW YORK, DESTINED TO WESTERN POINTS OCTOBER 6,…
Tags: Railroad
The Mountaineer Limited
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…
Tags: Railroad
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Boulevard showing Schuetzen Park, Union Hill, NJ
Black and white postcard of Schuetzen Park, located on J.F. Kennedy Boulevard, North Bergen, NJ. 25 acres of land were purchased in 1875 and it was…