Items

• Public Service Car Climbing the Hill From Weehawken

  Black and white photo, dated July 31, 1949 showing trolley car number 2804 climbing the hill from the Weehawken waterfront. The trolley is marked Union City. This image was taken one week before trolley service to and from the Ferry terminated.
• Commemorative Tile From the Lincoln Tunnel

  This tile, dated May 16, 1957, has a view of the approach to the Lincoln Tunnel screened on to it. The person I got the tile from states that the company that made the tiles for the 3rd tube of the Lincoln Tunnel issued this tile as a souvenir of the completion of the order. The reverse of the tile is labeled Romany Spartan Genuine Clay Tile.  
• Invitation to the Lincoln Tunnel Groundbreaking - 1934

  This invitation to the Lincoln Tunnel Groundbreaking ceremonies (May 17th, 1934) was sent to Mr. Matthew J. Eder of the Uptown Chamber of Commerce in New York City. The Weehawken ceremonies were held at 3:00 PM in the Weehawken Playground.
• Medal from the Opening of the Lincoln Tunnel

  Gold colored medal with a profile of Abraham Lincoln and the wording 'For a further unification of the people' on the front side. The reverse shows the entrance to the original two tubes of the tunnel and has the wording 'Lincoln Tunnel Dedicated 1937. Built and owned by the Port of New York Authority.'
• Weehawken - Tidewater Terminals of the Erie Lackawanna

  These pages from Tidewater Terminals of the Erie Lackawanna Railway (by William H Sheppard - 1976) describe and map the Erie's railroad tracks here in Weehawken.  
• End of the Run - Weehawken

  This painting on the cover of Railroad Magazine in April, 1951 depicts a New York Central locomotive reaching the end of its journey in Weehawken. Special thanks to Bernie Zempolich for sending in this image.
• Colossus of Weehawken - Railroad Magazine - August 1951

  Article from the August 1951 issue of Railroad magazine (page 94) describing the giant passenger/freight elevator that used to grace the waterfront. Unfortunately, this article repeats the myth that Gustave Eiffel (he of Tower fame) designed the elevator. The elevator was actually designed by civil engineer Thomas E Brown Jr. based on specifications by Edward A. Trapp, engineer of the North Hudson Railroad Company.
• End of the Run - Railroad Magazine - August 1951

  Advertisement from page 77 of Railroad magazine, issue of August, 1951 for a cover reprint called End of the Run (New York Central). The prints cost 25 cents each. See item 256 for a color version of the original magazine cover, courtesy of Bernie Zempolich.
• Erie Magazine December 1953 - Mechanical Talent Wins

  Article from Erie magazine issue of December, 1953 entitled Mechanical Talent Wins and with a subtitle of Erie employees at Weehawken docks substitute skill with materials handling equipment for muscle to move mountains of freight. This 5 page article starts on page 10 of the magazine and includes a number of pictures of the Weehawken docks and the freight equipment used there.  
• Boston and Albany 585

  Black and white photo postcard with the following caption: A cold day in Weehawken, NJ finds a New England visitor, Boston and Albany Pacific 585, moving away from the water tank. January 1951. Photo by Ed Nowak. Published by Audio Visual Designs, POB 24, Earlton, NY 12058 - numbered RP502 and 135206.
• The Marker - The North Hudson County Railway

  Complete issue of The Marker - volume 5, number 2 from September, 1946. The Marker was the newsletter of the North Jersey Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. This issue was devoted to the history of the North Hudson County Railway and includes a number of photos and maps as well as lots of good information.  
• West Shore Railroad Timetable and Map - 1907

  4-page timetable and map for the New York Central's West Shore Railroad, which ran from Weehawken to Albany.
• Train and Work Crews at the Bergen Tunnel

  Black and white photograph. Work and train crews pose for the lensman circa 1883 shortly after the opening of the Bergen Tunnel. Rock blasted from the tunnel was used as fill on the riverfront to increase the size of the [railroad's] property. From Marine Line Equipment - January-September 1992 published by the Ontario and Western Railway Historical Society.  
• West Shore RR Terminal and Ferry

  View from the river with a ferryboat at dock.
• The Mountaineer Limited

  Color print with caption as follows: The New York, Ontario and Western's Crack 'Mountaineer' passenger train slows for its stop at Bear Mountain along the Hudson River on its inaugural run on June 24, 1938. The NY, O & W Railway was a lesser known Class 1 railroad operating from Weehawken, NJ, across the Hudson River from Manhattan to the northern reaches of New York State. A sizeable portion of the railroad's income was was derived from a summer parade of New Yorkers trekking to the popular Catskill Mountain resorts. In 1937, just into bankruptcy, the railroad retained noted industrial designer Otto Kuhler its dowdy 'Mountaineer' on a budget of just $10,000. He worked with the railroad shop forces to create a miracle and turned the 1913 cars into a sleek modern train. Unfortunately, the cars were slowly dismantled during World War II for badly needed scrap. The advent of diesel locomotives forced the 'Old and Weary,' the railroad's well earned nickname, to sell the Mountaineer's steam locomotive and many others for scrap in 1948. Nine years later, the railroad collapsed in financial ruin.  
• A Trainload of Dates

  Black and white photo of a New York Central Railroad train (loco # 3775) going westbound from Weehawken laden with dates. Caption: PHOTO OF FIRST SECTION 75 CARLOADS DATES SHIPPED BY HILLS BROTHERS CO, NEW YORK, DESTINED TO WESTERN POINTS OCTOBER 6, 1930 PART OF A TOTAL OF 99 CARS. Another Bernie Zempolich find..
• Matchbook - Lincoln Tunnel Opening

  Commemorative matchbook from the opening of the Lincoln Tunnel - Wednesday, December 22, 1937.
• New Jersey Approach to the Midtown Hudson Tunnel

  Black and white photo postcard of a model of the Weehawken side toll plaza of the Lincoln Tunnel, before it was called the Lincoln Tunnel. Manhattan Post Card Publishing Co., Inc.
• From the New York Gazette: New Invention

  Newspaper article from the New England Palladium and Commercial Advertiser - Number 28, Volume XLIX - Tuesday, October 5, 1819 - Published in Boston Article on a new horse powered ferry running from Spring Street Manhattan to Weehawken. A boat of 200 tons was propelled at 5 mph by 4 horses walking on a treadmill.
• Lincoln Tunnel - Ceremony at the State Line

  Photo of the opening festivities at the New York - New Jersey line. Image provided by Bernie Zempolich.
• Lincoln Tunnel Opening Day Medal

  Opening day medal from the Lincoln Tunnel. The front shows Lincoln with inscription: For a further unification of the people. The reverse shows the entrance to the original two tubes of the tunnel and has the wording 'Lincoln Tunnel Dedicated 1937. Built and owned by the Port of New York Authority.' Image provided by Bernie Zempolich.
• New York Central Derailment Letter

  Letter from the New York Central Railroad to its customers apologizing for the inconvenience caused by a derailment on February 3rd, 1953.
• Old Weehawken Ferry

  Chapter from a book on West New York on the Weehawken Ferry and its history.From - History of West New York, New Jersey by Walter T. Eichmann, PhD. - Published in 1948 by the Golden Jubilee Committee of WNY. Thanks to Bob Schwartz for finding this.
• Sandhogs on the Job

  Photographs of the Lincoln Tunnel under construction - a Mid-Week Pictorial from an unidentified newspaper or magazine dated March 2, 1935.
• Union City Entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel, Union City NJ

  Black and white photo postcard looking east of a very traffic free view of 495 just to our west - those were the days!