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Volunteer Railroaders Association (aka VRA) is a New Jersey–based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization of volunteers interested in railroad heritage and preservation. [1] The VRA has conducted rail-oriented excursions in New York and Pennsylvania, in addition to New Jersey, including children oriented fund-raising train rides in New Jersey and New York.
Joseph Brant, a Native American led Brant's Volunteers an irregular British Loyalist associators unit, of mixed Mohawk Indians and white soldiers raised during the American Revolutionary War who fought on the British side in the Province of New York. 2nd Battalion, "Associators", Pennsylvania National Guard, U.S. Army 111th Infantry Regiment ...
The new line began regular service on June 4, 1883 and was opened over its whole length on July 1, 1883. [1] [12] The new line was not directly operated by the New York Central; rather, on December 18, 1882, it was leased to the Fall Brook Coal Company from the date of completion (officially June 30, 1883) for twenty years. [12]
The Third New Jersey Regiment was authorized on January 1, 1776. Not all Continental infantry regiments raised in a state were part of a state quota, however. On December 27, 1776, the Continental Congress gave Washington temporary control over certain military decisions that the Congress ordinarily regarded as its own prerogative.
At the time, Central New Jersey RR Station LLP project manager and former city councilman Jerry Donahue had claimed the project would need $2.7 million and take until 2003. The topic was then revisited in October 2006, when the Commonwealth approved a $2 million redevelopment grant for the project. Donahue stated that $1 million has been ...
Now that the Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project is underway, Port Morris Junction is the connection point of the "Old Road" and the "Cut-Off" once again since 2011. Buttzville, New Jersey bridge, 1901, one of the DL&W's first concrete bridges and the only one to cross a river (the Pequest River) and railroad (the L&HR RR) with a single arch
Conspiracy theorists link mysterious New Jersey drone sightings to ‘Project Blue Beam’ alien plot. Patrick Reilly. December 16, 2024 at 10:10 AM.
From 1908 to 1911, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) built a level-graded 28.5-mile (45.9 km) railroad line. This route, known as the Lackawanna Cut-Off, ran west from Port Morris Junction in Roxbury Township near the south end of Lake Hopatcong in northwestern New Jersey (about 45 miles (72 km) west-northwest of New York City) and to Slateford Junction near the Delaware ...