Tom’s Raritan River
Railroad Page
www.RaritanRiver-RR.com
My Favorite Pictures
and Scans
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RRRR Sw900 #3 with caboose #5 and NYC
boxcar at the South Amboy shops in October 1962.
From the collection of George H. Landau
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July, 31 1937
RRRR Passenger Coach
#27 at the
Note the little “
In later years this would be the Freight Station
The passenger train would stop running only 9 months later.
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Courtesy of Bill Burke
Very rare color shot of Raritan River Locomotive #20
crossing
the “black”
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Another rare shot
from Bill Burke shows RRRR #20 crossing into the
Courtesy of Bill Burke, who also just happened to work with Fred when he
was
publishing the only known book on the RRRR, Rails up the
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This is a great shot of the Parlin Station in 1917 showing five passenger cars.
I have yet to find another photograph with so many passenger cars all in one shot.
1917 was the busiest time on the RRRR with 22 daily trains.
By 1930 they were down to 10 trains a day, and in 1937 there was just two
Passenger service was officially discontinued on April 16, 1938.
Here is a great shot of Box Car 100 scanned in at 400dpi.
For the complete history and current location of this rare box car, click HERE.
http://www.raritanriver-rr.com/BoxCar100.htm
Caboose #8 on inspection trip - 1973
Caboose #8 was originally damaged and repaired, but instead of adding a coupler onto the back, they added an observation deck!
Here is a great photo from an inspection trip
On deck is Ray Stockton, unknown inspector, Robert Kipp, Charlie Miller and John Toth on the ground.
This caboose also still exists! See related story on how I found RRRR Caboose #8!
Another shot of Caboose #8 on the Inspection Train - 1973
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Other
Fine Sites Dedicated to the
http://www.geocities.com/transit383/rrhist.html
http://jcrhs.org/raritanriver.html
Here is an entire forum dedicated to
discussions of the RRRR!
www.railroad-line.com/forum/forum.asp?forum_id=2