Month: December 2025

On Saturday 11 October 2025, a group of Lackawanna Coalition members took the train to Port Jervis, New York. We decided upon this date as the leaves will have started to change, weather should be decent, it is the last open weekend for the Port Jervis rail museum. We will have three hours to see…

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Late in October, we learned of a Millburn project honoring the country’s 250th birthday, and were pleased to be offered a chance to participate in the planned municipal celebration with a block in a commemorative tile mural.  With short notice, through nobody’s fault but our own (we have noted that we need to work on…

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Union County is essentially the northernmost county in Central Jersey and, from outward appearances, it seems to be rich in transit. The Morris & Essex Line serves Summit between its namesake counties, the Gladstone Branch goes to 3 stations west of there before leaving the county, Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast Line trains stop…

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Sunday, September 28 was Boonton Day, with a street fair on Main Street and, perhaps more important to rail fans, the United Railway Historical Society (URHS) held their annual “Railroad Museum for a Day” event at their yard and shop facility in town. The event is normally accessible only to motorists, because NJ Transit’s Boonton…

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