Items

• Delivery Notification - Hudson River Railroad Company - 1903

  Postcard sent to the Oneita Knitting Company advising them that they have a shipment of 44 sacks of cotton shipped from Weehawken waiting for them at Utica Station and that they will be charged $1.00 per day if it is not picked up after 48 hours.
• Correspondence with New York, Ontario and Western Railway - 1915

  Letter and reply regarding a damaged shipment and associated payment from the NYO&W railroad headquartered in Weehawken.
• Postcard - Weehawken Viaduct and Train

  Postcard showing a train on Weehawken's working waterfromt in front of a rail bridge. Postmarked 1908.
• NY Central Freight and Passenger Railway

  Scanned photograph of the NY Central Freight and Passenger railyards, taken in 1946.
• Pier K, Weehawken - 1946

  Scan of black and white photograph of Pier K, looking south towards lower Manhattan. Pier K was part of the NY Central Railway system. The image was taken from the top of the Palisades.
• Stock Transfer Certificates - West Shore and Ontario Terminal Company

  Two 1883 stock transfer certificates executed at Weehawken
• Palisades Railroad Time Table (reproduction)

  A reproduction of the timetable (effective May 13, 1894) for trains of the Palisades Railroad running between Weehawken and Fort Lee and ferries between Weehawken and NYC (42nd Street and Franklin Street).
• Advertisement - The Storm King - Train

  Newspaper advertisement announcing the new West Shore Railroad Storm King train from Weehawken to Albany with service commencing July 8, 1928. This service included a buffet parlor car and connected at Albany with the new Day Coach De Luxe.<p>Source of the advertisement and exact date is unknown.
• King's Bluff Curve, Weehawken, NJ

  Black and white postcard photo of King's Bluff curve, with train running south along railroad tracks. Mailed April 30, 1910 from Weehawken. John C. Voigt Post Card Co., Jersey City, NJ. Printed in Germany.
• Pier 7 Grain Elevator

  Three black and white photographs of the Pier 7 grain elevator, which was located near the border of Weehawken and West New York. The photos were taken by Charles Schneider, from Boulevard East
• 1921 Erie Railroad Fire Report

  A 17-page report of the November 3-4, 1921 Erie Railroad Fire at the Weehawken Terminal. The report was published on November 30, 1921.
• Advertisement for the West Shore Railway - 1883

  Advertisement, circa 1883, published by the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway Company, announcing the new tracks traveling from New York, due to open on July 9, 1883, which would improve travel as far as Quebec. Also announced was the start of the New York to Buffalo line, to terminate in Weehawken, once the West Ferry terminal was completed. Edw. J. Kirk Collection, 1937 written in ink at top. This item is in the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.
• Waterfront and Rail Yards in the 1940s

  Photograph of the Weehawken waterfront and rail yards in the 1940s. From the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.
• Booklet: The Pennsylvania Tunnels and Terminals

  This booklet, published in 1904 by King's Booklets (A Thousand and one World-wide subjects) describes the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels and terminals in the New York area. In includes a photo of the Weehawken tunnel portal under construction on page 6. Thanks to Willie Demontreux for sending in this link to another piece of Weehawken history on the web.
• NYCRR Locomotive 2996 at Weehawken - June 19, 1950

  According to Charlie Bradley of the wonderful RailFan web site, "this photo of New York Central L2d Mohawk 4-8-2 #2996, was taken on June 19, 1950. These engines were built in the early 20's. Note the Plaza, Grauert Causeway, and the soldiers and sailors monument above. Pershing Road is to the right of the picture. It appears the engine is headed to the service track for coal and water."
• Painting of Railroad and Eldorado Amusement Park

  Willie Demontreux found this image on www.railfan.net along with a caption supplied by the site moderator, 'waterlevel:' Port Imperial is now where the New York Central train and ferry yards once stood. In the ticket/boarding area for the current ferries that run between New Jersey and New York you can find a few paintings on the wall. This is one of them. I can't tell you the story behind it but as you can see it depicts the New York Central tracks in an earlier era of transportation and architecture. For those who have not seen the landscape of New York and New Jersey from the water I recommend a trip on the Spirit Cruises that depart from Port Imperial.
• Wikipedia Entry: West Shore Railroad

  Entry from the open source Wikipedia encyclopedia on the West Shore Railroad.
• A Railroad to Weehawken

  Article from the New York Times, April 1, 1853, page 3. Article text: A RAILROAD TO WEEHAWKEN - We noticed on Tuesday a new enterprise of our Hoboken friends, which seemed to us most satisfactory, being a line of omnibuses from the ferry at Hoboken to Weehawken, and the adjacent places. But this is beaten hollow by a still more determined enterprise. A railroad, as we understand, is to be laid from the ferry to Weehawken and the fare is to be only three cents. What glorious Summer lounges and dives into depths of greenery are we promised! With the ferry reduced to three cents and a railroad ride some two or three miles into a picturesque country for the same sum we shall be able to live through the hottest summer without complaining...railroad, as we understand, is to be laid from the ferry to Weehawken and the fare is to be only three cents. What glorious Summer lounges and dives into depths of greenery are we promised! With the ferry reduced to three cents and a railroad ride some two or three miles into a picturesque country for the same sum we shall be able to live through the hottest summer without complaining...
• New York Central RR Locomotive 2021 at Weehawken

  Black and white photo of NYCRR locomotive, taken on February 3, 1968.
• Penn Central Locomotive at Weehawken

  Colored photo of Penn Central locomotive (type EMD GP35) shown at Weehawken on November 10, 1974. 88181,ConRail Locomotive at Weehawken,This ConRail locomotive (type EMD SD45) is shown at Weehawken on September 14
• Penn Central Locomotive at Weehawken

  This Penn Central locomotive (type U25B) is shown at Weehawken on February 24, 1974. Photo reproduced with the kind permission of Andy Koenigsberg of RailPictures.Net.
• Working Together Produces Results in Weehawken - World Tunnelling

  This article from the December 2003 issue of World Tunnelling magazine describes the process of rehabilitating the West Shore Railroad Tunnel for use in the new Hudson Bergen Light Rail Project.
• Photos of the Weehawken Rail/Ferry Terminal - 1930s

  These photos, as well as the description below, were posted on the www.railfan.net site by 'waterlevel,' the moderator of the forum which deals with the New York Central's Marine Operations: Photographed from the Weehawken bluffs the photos were taken in the late 1930's. The Rochester is seen in the ferry slip and two New York Central tugboats are approaching the yards in the middle of the first photo. Just below the large smokestack is a dark building that was the Public Service trolley shed. To the left was where Railway Express operated out of. On the upper left were where the railroad boxcars waited to be loaded onto the car floats and beneath them are the New York Central passenger cars for the West Shore Line. There was a diner located in the trolley shed and just up the street was a place for the workmen to buy their work clothes. Inside the railroad terminal was a large waiting room with long wooden benches and a news stand that sold newspapers, magazines, candy and other items to the commuters. It was run by the Union News Company. Within a few years this terminal was critical to the WWII effort in moving tanks, artillery, ambulances, jeeps, duce and a halfs and other war material to waiting ships in the Port of New York. Many Army personnel saw their last of America from this spot since the trains brought them from New York State through New Jersey and then by ferry to the troop transports. In four years the ferries would be the in the transport loop once again by ferrying prisoners of war to the holding camps in New York. In 1927 the ferries carried 27,044,102 people crossing the Hudson by ferry. By 1954 the number had dropped to 429,588 people. The ferries closed down in 1959.
• Railroad Yards, Winter, Weehawken - Martin Lewis - 1917

  Painting - oil on canvas, 21 by 25 inches, circa 1917. Martin Lewis is considered one of the great chroniclers of urban life. His ability to capture adverse weather conditions and obscure light sources, coupled with a keen sense of composition and technical skill, made him one of America's greatest printmakers of the twentieth century. His earliest etchings date from 1915; however, these prints show a technical ability above that of most beginner printmakers. He was known for destroying prints and plates that he found objectionable; therefore, it is possible that he made prints earlier and discarded them. He produced over 147 drypoints, etchings, mezzotints, aquatints, and lithographs between 1915 and 1953. As an artist his first success was as a watercolorist, but he also worked in oil. Thanks to Bob Schwartz for finding this image.
• Historic American Engineering Record - West Shore Railroad Tunnel

  This document is a description of the West Shore Railroad Tunnel which runs under 48th Street from the water front. This report was prepared in 1997 by industrial archeologist Thomas Flagg for the Historic American Engineering Record. The document images are from the collection of the Library of Congress in Washington DC.