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New Jersey Herald - January 11,
1872 issue
The embankment forming the Y connecting
the Midland with the Sussex Railroad, near the junction at Franklin,
is completed.
New Jersey Herald - January 25, 1872 issue
The tramway to connect the old Pochuck
Mine with the Sussex Railroad extension is being built.
The milk business on the Sussex Road
is increasing rapidly. The train which originally carried but four cans,
now carries from 30 to 40 at this unfavorable time of year.
New Jersey Herald - February 8, 1872 issue
The appointment of a mail agent on the
Sussex Railroad has been secured, and Mr. Jacob Struble has received
the position. This will be a decided convenience, as the mails for
each place will be overhauled in the car, after the same manner as
on the Morris & Essex road. A person with a stamped envelope is
also enabled by this system to mail a letter on the train.
New Jersey Herald - February 22, 1872 issue
It is rumored that the Sussex Railroad
Company intend to build a branch shop at the junction of the Branchville
road, as it will save a good deal of time for the employees of the
Northern division, who are obliged to go to Waterloo for all repairs.
New Jersey Herald - March 9, 1872
issue
The Sussex R.R. Company intend replacing
the temporary bridge over the road crossing near ex-Gov. Haines, Hamburgh,
by a substantial iron structure, for which a part of the material
has been brought to the place.
New Jersey Herald - April 18, 1872
issue
The Sussex Railroad have received the
lumber for planking the bed of their road across the meadows and have
the track laid from the junction with the old line to where they will
begin planking.
New Jersey Herald - May 2, 1872
issue
The Sussex Railroad Company are breaking
up limestone to place in the high embankment at Franklin, to prevent
its washing during the heavy rains.
The Sussex Road are rapidly laying the
plank and track from the junction across the meadows and will probably
reach the Big Spring by Saturday night.
New Jersey Herald - May 9, 1872
The track of the Sussex Railroad across
the meadows reached the Big Spring on Monday, where a bridge is being
built to cross the kill. The road is being planked all the way across
the marshy ground. A first layer of planks is laid crosswise and a
second layer is placed diagonally over them, upon which the ties are
laid, and the intervening space filled with gravel.
New Jersey Herald - May 16, 1872 issue
On Thursday night last the woods in
the neighborhood of the Sussex Railroad track, below Slate Cut, were
discovered to be on fire, endangering the forest and other property
near the track. A train with about twenty of the company's employees,
was run to the spot, and with some difficulty the fires were put out.
The track of the Sussex extension is
laid to the meadow brook near the rocks. A locomotive was left on
the Big Spring bridge, from Saturday night till Monday morning to
settle it. Many visited it on Sunday and some continued their walk
down the kill, which would have been all right--if they hadn't followed
a fish line.
New Jersey Herald - May 23, 1872 issue
The Midland railroad, it is said, will
carry the ore from Franklin to Newark for the New Jersey Zinc Company,
while the Sussex, as at present, will transport the silicate ore.
New Jersey Herald - May 30, 1872
The old Andover Mine was re-opened about
a month since and is now working with a force of 15 or 20 men. The Andover
lime stone quarry is also working with a force of about 30 men.
On Monday morning of this week as the mail train was
coming from Franklin, a mare belonging to Fritz Ackerson, near Monroe
Corner, was struck by the locomotive and instantly killed.
New Jersey Herald - June 6, 1872
On Saturday last the morning train on
the Sussex Railroad struck a cow near the Fowler place, Franklin,
breaking a leg and knocking off a horn. In the evening the poor creature
still lay where she first fell, alive and suffering.
New Jersey Herald - June 18, 1872
A new mail, baggage and smoking car,
from the shop at this place, {Newton} will soon be placed on the Sussex
road, for the accommodation of the new mail agent between Newton and
Waterloo.
The dummy engine and car recently placed on the Branchville
branch of the Sussex Road has been returned to the shops for springs.
It jolted too much for the convenience of passengers.
New Jersey Herald - July 11, 1872
The last rail on the new Sussex branch
across the meadows was laid last week, and on the 4th of July all
the trains on the Sussex road ran over the branch. Since that time
gravel trains have been ballasting the road and it is expected that
the road will be in perfect running order in a few days. The building
of the contemplated new brick passenger depot with the proposed accommodations,
has been postponed and in its stead a temporary frame structure is
now being erected. The excavation for the foundation of the other
still remain, and it is to be hoped that before long that Newton can
be able to boast of a long needed commodity--a passenger depot that
will be a credit to this town.
A rumor is afloat that the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western Company are negotiating for the purchase of the Sussex road.
What truth there is in it we are unable to say.
New Jersey Herald - July 18, 1872
It is said that the Branch from the
Sussex extension at McAffee Valley to the Pochuck mine, will be completed
about the first of September. Twenty men are engaged in the construction.
The Boston franklinite Company are about to haul the
ore from the Ten Eyck mine, at McAfee Valley, to the railroad, whence
it will be taken to the furnaces. This will be done in order to give
room to start a drift or new opening to intersect the vein at a greater
depth.
New Jersey Herald - August 15, 1872
Ore trains have been running to McAfee
Valley some time past. The red oxide of iron, or specular iron ore,
which is being taken to the furnaces in Pennsylvania, is said to make
a most superior quality of iron, similar to that made from the hematite
ores from the same place.
Sussex Independent - August 16, 1872 issue
The Sussex R. R. Co. are building a
turn-table near the depot, and making other improvements in its vicinity.
New Jersey Herald - August 22,
1872 issue
The Sussex Railroad Company are building a new turn-table
near the depot at Franklin.
Sussex Register - August 22, 1872 issue
The new depot on the Sussex Extension
is to be located a quarter of a mile south of McAfee Corner, on lands
formerly owned by William Smith, Jr.
The work on the Sussex Railroad, at Franklin, under
the management of Chief Engineer Thompson, is progressing finely.
About 20 men are employed in building a new side track and turn-table.
New Jersey Herald - September 12, 1872
The connections at Franklin are about
to be made by which the Midland water tank will be supplied.
The work upon the turn-table of the
Sussex R.R. Co., at Franklin is progressing. The wall on which the
circular track is to be laid is about completed.
New Jersey Herald - October 3,
1872
The location of the Newton depot has
been staked out, and we are informed that the work of erection will
be begun very soon.
New Jersey Herald - October 10, 1872
The Sussex Railroad Company are about
to furnish the people of Mcaffee Valley with a depot somewhere near
the southwest end of Mr. Smith's upper meadow. Those having abundant
leisure will take the cars at this place; others at Hamburgh or Pine
Island.
The work of construction on the new Sussex R.R. depot
in this town, [Newton] was fairly begun on Monday Morning.
Mr. W.H. Price has the contract for the mason work, and the carpenter
work, we learn, will be done by the company's mechanics. The location
of the depot, after work was commenced was removed to the lot nearly
opposite the residence of Mr. Thos. Clark.
New Jersey Herald - October 17, 1872
Ground has been staked off near the
Newton depot for a new engine house, 110 feet in length by 40 in width,
to be built to accommodate four locomotives.
Sussex Register - October 24, 1872
The work on the new depot of the Sussex
Railroad progresses favorably. The foundation will be completed this
week. Ground has also been broken for a new engine house, to accommodate
four locomotives, and we learn that the Railroad Company intend to
remove their machine shop from Waterloo to Newton.
Sussex Register - November 14,
1872
The improvements in the vicinity of
the depot proceed slowly on account of the weather. The foundation
of the depot building is completed. The excavation in the rocks above
the depot for a large water tank progresses very slowly, but when
completed will be a very substantial affair. The trenches for the
new engine house are completed and the masons began their work on
Monday.
New Jersey Herald - December 12,
1872
On and after Monday next the milk train
on the Sussex road which at present leaves Franklin and Branchville
at 5:20 and Newton at 6:07 P.M. will leave Franklin and Branchville
at 5:00 and Newton at 5:45 P.M.
Arrangements have been made with Mr. T. Case, Superintendent
of the Sussex Railroad, to hold the regular evening train from Newton
to Franklin, on Thursday evening of next week, until after the conclusion
of Miss Anna E. Dickinson's lecture--giving the people of that locality
an excellent opportunity to hear her.
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