Miscellaneous
Articles from 1880
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New
Jersey Herald - January 28, 1880 issue
Monday morning
of this week the Sussex Railroad company increased the fares between
Newton and Waterloo and Newton and Franklin, from sixty to sixty five
cents.
New
Jersey Herald - March 10, 1880 issue
The Sussex Railroad
company will rebuild the spur from Andover to the mines, a distance
of about one mile, this spring. The ore is now carted by teams to the
Andover depot. The company have also made a contract with Mr. John George,
Of Ogdensburg, for the transportation of 100,000 tons of ore over their
road to Waterloo.
New Jersey Herald
- March 17, 1880 issue
The track laying
on the McAfee Valley Railroad extension will be completed this week.
New Jersey Herald
- March 31, 1880 issue
The main line of
the Warwick Valley Railroad was connected with McAfee's extension on
Saturday A number of Prominent Railroad men were present.
New
Jersey Herald - April 14, 1880 issue
Regular passenger
trains will be running on the McAfee's extension about the 1st of May.
New
Jersey Herald - April 28, 1880 issue
W.J. Taylor &
Co., the lessees of the mines at Andover, have purchased of the Central
railroad company two locomotives, one to be used at the Andover mines
and the other at their furnaces at Chester.
New
Jersey Herald - June 2, 1880 issue
The Summer time
table of the Sussex road goes into effect next Monday. There will be
a train to and from Greycourt, N.Y., daily
A cow belonging to
Richard Hendrie, the walking boss at the Franklin Mines, was killed by
a train on the track at Franklin last Saturday evening.
New Jersey Herald
- June 30 1880 issue
(from the 125
Years Ago section of the NJH July 3 2005)
the
old Y at Franklin is to be rebuilt at once. This is necessary to give
the Sussex road increased accommodations for their travel by way of
of McAfee.
The large furnace at Franklin will be blown out in a few days. The
last shipment of coal for the furnace passed over the Sussex railroad
last week. It is reported that the company has ordered the furnace
blown out for repairs and that work will again be resumed in the fall.
The furnace is one of the largest in the country and since it was
pout in blast the last time, it has been run to full capacity, averaging,
perhaps, more tons of ore per month than any other furnace in operation.
This will throw a large force of men out of employment.
New
Jersey Herald - July 21, 1880 issue
Since the suspension
of work at the furnace at Franklin the Sussex Railroad Company has discontinued
one train and dismissed several trainmen.
New Jersey Herald
- July 30, 1880 issue
The old Y at Franklin
is to be rebuilt at once. This is necessary to give the Sussex road
increased accommodations for their travel by the way of McAfee.
New
Jersey Herald - August 4, 1880 issue
The Sussex Railroad
company has now a large gang of men on that portion of its line from
Hamburgh to McAfee engaged in putting down several thousand railroad
ties, and renewing part of the track. It has also contracted for the
building of a "Y" at Franklin, and the work will be finished in a few
weeks, after which through passenger trains will be put on, running
from Greycourt to Waterloo without change of cars.
New Jersey Herald
- Aug-September 1880 issue
The work of erecting
a substantial arched bridge over the Wallkill at Franklin, is progressing
finely, the arch being more than half completed.
It is rumored that
the Franklin Depot is soon to be removed to the junction of the Midland
and Sussex roads, about a quarter of a mile from its present location.
Quite a large gang
of men and teams are at work constructing the new "Y" at Franklin. Its
completion is necessary to the running of through trains on the Sussex
and Warwick Valley railroads, from Greycourt, on the Erie, to Waterloo
on the D. L. & W.
New
Jersey Herald - September 22, 1880 issue
On the day of the
fireman's parade Sept 30th, the Sussex Railroad Company will sell special
Excursion Tickets to Newton, good on that day only, at the following
prices: From Branchville, Lafayette and Andover 25 cents, Sparta Station,
30 cents, Monroe, 40 cents, Franklin and Waterloo, 55 cents, Hamburg
65 cents, McAfee 75 cts.
New Jersey Herald
- September 22, 1880 issue
Persons desiring
to attend the Orange County Fair at Warwick this week, can leave stations
on the Sussex R.R. as follows; Waterloo, 8:11 A.M. ; Newton, 8:50; Franklin,
9:25; Hamburg Junction, 9:30; McAfee, 9:45; Vernon, 10:10, arriving
at the Fair Grounds at 10:30. Returning, leave Fair Grounds at 4 P.M.;
arrive at Vernon 4:30; McAfee, 5:15; Hamburg Junction, 5:30; Franklin
Furnace, 5:50; Newton, 6:50; Waterloo, 7:32.
From
the New Jersey Herald - October 13, 1880 issue
The
special train over the Sussex railroad last Wednesday evening, conveying
Mr. C. D. Thompson and bride to Waterloo, ran into five mules near
the Musconetcong bridge, this side of Waterloo, killing one and pitching
the others down the embankment, injuring another so badly that it
was found necessary to dispatch it. The remainder were but slightly
injured. The Monday evening previous the extra freight from Franklin
ran over a cow near Sparta Station, killing it instantly.
New
Jersey Herald - December 1, 1880 issue
Thos. J. Allen,
who graded the track on the fair grounds in this place, {Newton} and
has just completed the Y at Franklin Furnace for the Sussex railroad,
has secured a contract for building twenty miles of the extension of
the D. L. & W. R. R., from Binghamton to Buffalo.
New Jersey Herald
- December 15, 1880 issue
Last Wednesday
night the water in the boiler of the locomotive of the morning mail
train from Branchville to Waterloo, froze up, and the employees were
unable to thaw it out in time to make the Thursday morning trip.