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Railroadians of America Vol 1 #1 New York NYS&W April 1939 SIGNED
Railroadians of America Volume 1 #1 New York NYS&W April 1939
The history of the New York Susquehanna and Western Railroad by Walter Arndt Lucas
Copyright 1939
Soft Cover COVER IS LOOSE
116 Pages
The history of the New York, Susquehanna and Western railroad, its predecessor, leased and absorbed lines, constitutes a series of attempts to build a railroad for a particular purpose that was temporarily set aside and then carried out along the lines of the original plans thirty years after construction of the road was undertaken.
The popular misconception regarding this road is that the first part of it was planned to be integral with the New York and Oswego Midland railroad. As a matter of expediency, it was so constructed but subsequent events proved that it would have been better had the founders built the road as originally intended.
The "Susquehanna," as it is commonly called today, comprises a number of lines in the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania which at the time of their greatest extent totaled approximately 240 miles. For the past forty years the N.Y.S.&W. has been under the domination of the Erie railroad, although it has been largely managed and run by its own men. There has always been an air of independence about the road and to this day a Susquehanna man is just that. He does not operate over any part of the Erie, except at terminals, nor do Erie crews operate Susquehanna trains.
In attempting to follow the ideas of the founders of the various roads comprising the N.Y.S.&W., we find that their ambitions were overshadowed by their ability to obtain money to construct the roads' as a single entity. Hence it is necessary to divide the history into the several periods of construction.
Although the oldest company within this system had its inception over a century ago, actual construction did not begin until the years following the Civil war, during a period of great railroad expansion, when a number of lines were projected and built that eventually connected the Hudson river with the Susquehanna river.
Primary lines within the Susquehanna fold include the New Jersey, Hudson and Delaware Railroad Company, originally chartered in 1832 ; The Hoboken, Ridgefield and Paterson Railroad Company, chartered in 1866; The Sussex Valley Railroad Company, The New Jersey Western Railroad Company, chartered in 1867 ; and the Hudson Connecting Railway Company chartered in 1869.
Surveys had been made for all these roads and actual construction was under way on the New Jersey, Hudson and Delaware and the New Jersey Western lines when, in accordance with legislative action, they were consolidated under the name of the New Jersey Midland Railway in 1870.
Originally the projectors of these roads intended to build their lines to connect with the coal fields of Pennsylvania and so afford the manufacturing towns of northern New Jersey and New York city with cheaper fuel and also to provide an outlet for the products of the mines and farms of this productive area.
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