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The M&U was sold at a foreclosure sale on January 15, 1947 to the three feed dealers, Manning, Simmons and Clark, who reorganized the company as the Middletown and New Jersey Railway Company, Inc. on October 1, 1947. Traffic in the 1950s was dominated by a large GLF feed mill near Dolson Ave. in Middletown. By the mid-1950s, the three owners ...
November 17: NJM assumes control of the NYOM line from Jersey City to Middletown [27] 1875 NJM falls into receivership with James McCullough and Garret Hobart as receivers [3] [28] 1880 New Jersey Midland Railway reorganized out of receivership as the New Jersey Midland Railroad. Wortendyke and Littlejohn are out, Hobart is in as president. [29 ...
A map of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway, the most recent successor of the Midland Railway. The NJ Midland went bankrupt and was sold to receivers in March 1875. By December 1878, a dispute broke out between various bondholders, some of whom disputed that the Hudson Connecting Railway should be included in the proceedings. [13]
A New York City map that displays the terminus of various railroads, including the NYS&W at Edgewater, circa 1900. In 1880, investors from the original NJM regrouped and reorganized the company as the Midland Railroad of New Jersey, with Hobart serving as their president, and the company regained their finances by serving New Jersey industrial firms. [10]
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, commonly known as the O&W or NYO&W, was a regional railroad founded in 1868. The last train ran from Norwich, New York, to Middletown, New York, in 1957, after which it was ordered liquidated by a U.S. bankruptcy judge. It was the first Class I U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety. [11]
Corporate history.—The carrier was incorporated on November 13, 1913, under the general laws of New York, and is a reorganization of the Middletown, Unionville and Water Gap Railroad Company. The property of the Middletown, Unionville and Water Gap Railroad Company was sold under foreclosure proceedings on October 25, 1913, and acquired by ...
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The building served as a railroad station until 1983, [6] when rail service was taken over by MTA's Metro-North Railroad. Service on the route of Erie's original Main Line was discontinued in favor of the Graham Line , an Erie-built freight line now used by Norfolk Southern and the Port Jervis Line and was replaced by the Middletown Metro-North ...