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Images Of Rail New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad In New Jersey KAminski
Images Of Rail New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad In New Jersey By Edward S. Kaminski
Softcover 127 pages
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1.Jersey City to North Bergen
2.Little Ferry to Hackensack
3.Maywood to Elmwood Park (East Paterson)
4.Paterson to Wyckoff
5.Franklin Lakes to Butler
6.West of Butler
7.The Branches of Edgewater, Lodi, Passaic, and Hanford About the Author
INTRODUCTION
In 1826, an engineer named John L. Sullivan made a survey for a proposed railroad from the Hudson River to the Pennsylvania coalfields. The route he chose became the one used by the New Jersey Midland Railway, a predecessor of the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad. A group of businessmen (including Jacob M. Ryerson, Samuel Fowler, Thomas C. Ryerson, James Stoll, William Dickey, John Bell, Daniel M. Broadhead, Joseph E. Edsall, William Heyberger, John Haggerty, John Moore, and James M. Porter) took action on Sullivan's survey, and on March 8, 1832, the State of New Jersey legislature granted their petition to charter the New Jersey, Hudson & Delaware Railroad. All of these men were closely associated with iron mining and manufacturing concerns in Sussex, Morris, and Passaic counties in New Jersey. The charter authorized construction of a railroad commencing at any point or place on the Delaware River between the New York State line and where the Paulinskill River empties into the Delaware River, along with the authority to construct a bridge or bridges across the Delaware River by and with the consent of the State of Pennsylvania. From that point of crossing the Delaware, the line would extend east through Snufftown, New Jersey, (now Stockholm in Hardyston Township in Sussex County) to the Hudson River opposite New York City or join any other railroad chartered or proposed to be chartered that would lead to a terminus on the Hudson River. The group of men planned to raise the necessary capital through stock offerings, but the plan ran into problems due to the financial panic of 1837. The proposed railroad then lay dormant until 1853, when the charter was transferred to the Pennsylvania Coal Company. However, the financial panic of 1857 caused the building of the railroad to be put off once again.
In 1867, some of the original owners of the charter purchased it back from the Pennsylvania Coal Company. Plans to finance the new railroad once again encountered problems since it would be constructed near the general area of the successful Morris Canal, which was built years earlier. However, due to ever increasing per-ton prices for coal delivered by the canal, there was an added incentive to have the railroad built, which would allow coal to be transported more cheaply and efficiently to the major manufacturing centers in northern New Jersey. Work on the new railroad was finally started on January 31, 1867, with grading taking place in Bloomingdale, New Jersey. As work progressed slowly, a multitude of rechartering occurred, and as a result, the New Jersey Midland Railway (NJM) was formed, combining four existing railroad lines. Cornelius Wortendyke became the first president of the NJM. Wortendyke had controlled the New Jersey Western Railroad, a line that was being built west from Hawthorne, New Jersey, to Bloomingdale, New Jersey, which was one of the four lines combined into the NJM.
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