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 Posted - February 13 2022 : 11:57:51 PM
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Posted - February 18 2022 : 9:03:20 PM
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Got this in a partial set today. Some previous owner decided to decorate it as Raritan Valley.
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Posted - February 19 2022 : 4:45:32 PM
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| Raritan Valley. Looks primo!
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Posted - February 19 2022 : 5:05:48 PM
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Very interesting loco, Will. I was asking myself if there really was a Raritan Valley RR, so I googled it and sure enough, there is!
https://njroute22.com/nj-transit-raritan-valley-line/
Good find!
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Posted - February 19 2022 : 5:42:44 PM
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Posted - February 19 2022 : 8:13:27 PM
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quote:
The Raritan Valley Line you posted the link of is a commuter line that runs on three lines owned by three entities. Between High Bridge and the Aldene Connection, east of Cranford, it uses the former Central Railroad of New Jersey Main Line, now owned by New Jersey Transit and also called the Raritan Valley Line. From the Aldene Connection to Hunter it uses Conrail's Lehigh Line, formerly the east end of Lehigh Valley Railroad Main Line. Finally, it uses Amtrak's Northeast Corridor from the Hunter Connection to Newark and New York.
Most of the line follows the main line of the former Central Railroad of New Jersey. Historically, CNJ trains ran on this line, as part of its Lehigh-Susquehanna Division, from Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton in eastern Pennsylvania through Elizabeth and Bayonne to Jersey City.
There was also a Raritan River Railroad, which is a 12 mile short line between New Brunswick and South Amboy, NJ. It was built in 1888 and ran steam until the 1950s when diesels took over. There are only five pieces of rail equipment known to exist from the railroad. The local Pine Creek Narrow Gauge RR uses one of the Raritan River Railroad cabooses as it's office (minus it's trucks), and is painted yellow, as the cabooses from the railroad were painted.
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Posted - February 19 2022 : 10:32:59 PM
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Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â February 13 2022Â :Â 11:57:51 PM
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you may want to fix the 5628 number board as its slipped out of place 
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Posted - February 20 2022 : 04:01:24 AM
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| Good eye! Thanks!
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Posted - February 20 2022 : 06:26:40 AM
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Well here in Jersey we know about the Raritan Valley. Just I dont know very much abouit it. Started somewhere around Perth Amboy and went west to someplace? I think it serviced Camp Killmer.
Thanks for that info. I knew it existed but not where it ran.
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Posted - February 20 2022 : 3:49:21 PM
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quote:Well here in Jersey we know about the Raritan Valley. Just I dont know very much abouit it. Started somewhere around Perth Amboy and went west to someplace? I think it serviced Camp Killmer
Originally posted by toptrain - February 20 2022 : 06:26:40 AM
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Camp Kilmer was served by the Port Reading branch of the Reading Railroad and the Amboy branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The Raritan ran from South Amboy to New Brunswick.
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Posted - February 21 2022 : 12:37:12 PM
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quote:Good eye! Thanks!
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â February 20 2022Â :Â 04:01:24 AM
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You know Buss looks at the details; I'm surprised he didn't identify the blurry boxcar behind the SOS boxcar!
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Posted - February 21 2022 : 12:52:12 PM
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An engine that was with me for a short time.
Its shell in another motive power in Pennyslvana.
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Posted - February 21 2022 : 6:46:02 PM
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| I tink we need to start a new LOTW thread for 2.20.22 to 2.26.22.
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