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1941 Public Service Bus #16 Timetable

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1941 Public Service Bus #16 Timetable

A Century of Progress of the New York Central Lines

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Promotional brochure from 1933, celebrating the New York Central Railroad's Water Level Route between New York and Chicago, passing through Weehawken. The brochure includes a system map as well as photographs of locomotives and train stations.

A Railroad to Weehawken

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Article from the New York Times, April 1, 1853, page 3. Article text: A RAILROAD TO WEEHAWKEN - We noticed on Tuesday a new enterprise of our Hoboken friends, which seemed to us most satisfactory, being a line of omnibuses from the ferry at Hoboken…

Ad - Hammermill Bond Guides Sandhogs Drilling Lincoln Tunnel

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According to this advertisement from the January 17th, 1938 issue of Time, the drilling of the tunnel was made possible by printed forms from the Hammermill Paper Company of Erie, PA.

Ad - Shamrock Towing Co, Inc.

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This ad reads "Towing - Scows and Covered Barges for Charter - Steam Supplied - Shamrock Towing Co,. Inc - Foot of Baldwin Avenue, Weehawken, N.J. - Tel: N.J. Union 7-0650, N.y. - LO 4-8188-8189". Shamrock Towing was founded in 1870 by Captain…

Advertisement - Lincoln Tunnel - 1940

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This advertisement, by the Port of New York Authority, with photograph of a tunnel tube and rendering of the Lincoln Tunnel approach roadways appeared in the Northern Hudson County Recognition Number and Industrial Guide published by the Chamber of…

Advertisement for the West Shore Railway - 1883

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Advertisement, circa 1883, published by the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway Company, announcing the new tracks traveling from New York, due to open on July 9, 1883, which would improve travel as far as Quebec. Also announced was the start of…

Along the West Shore RR Weehawken, NJ

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Black and white undivided photo postcard of the Weehawken bluff with railroad tracks running along the bottom. Karl Bitter's home is seen at the top of the Palisades. Postmarked October 24, 1906 from New York, NY

Birds-Eye View of Weehawken Ferry From Hamilton Monument, Weehawken, NJ

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Colored photo postcard view of the Hamilton Monument, with the original stone bust, Hudson River and the ferry.

Bond - West Shore Railroad Company

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This bond for $1000 was issued in 1950 and was to be payable on January 1, 2361. Unfortunately, the West Shore Railroad Company is no more.