Re: (erielack) P&D History

["Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>]

Thanks, Gary and Pete. I figured there was a good story behind it, but
wasn't expecting the Lehigh Valley tie-in. On the PA side, the Quakertown
and Eastern got close to Milford, but it was pointed south towards Philly.

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary R. Kazin" <gkazin_@_yahoo.com>
To: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: (erielack) P&D History


> --- Paul Brezicki <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Gary, if it's not too much trouble. It should corroborate the
> > intriguing Asa Packer connection mentioned by Donald. I'm thinking the
> > P&D would have been chartered around 1868-71 when LV lost its eastern
> > connections at P'burg, the M&E by lease to DL&W, and CNJ by its lease
> > of LV archrival Lehigh & Susquehanna. The P&D may have been planned as
> > the new outlet for NY-bound anthracite traffic, but instead it chose a
> > more southerly route, initially to Perth Amboy. Evidently the CNJ was
> > a very strategic line before all this, serving as eastern connection
> > for L&S, LV, DL&W (via Warren RR) and RDG's East Penn.
>
> Passaic Valley & Peapack Railroad chartered Mar 29 1865 to build from
> somewhere in Essex or Union county to Peapack.
>
> Charter amended Feb 7 1867 to allow the railroad to build to the Delaware
> River between Milford and Frenchtown.
>
> Mar 25 1869 - authorized to bridge the Delaware at or near Milford to
> connect with a railroad in PA.  Though there has never been a railroad on
> that side, Taber speculates that there was an agreement with the North
> Penn Railroad (Reading).
>
> Asa Packer enters the scene now, buying an interest in the P&D.
>
> Feb 15 1870 - legislature revises the charter and renames the line New
> Jersey West Line.  Plans (going east) to cross the DLW near West Summit,
> run through Old Short Hills, cross the DLW again 1/2 mile east of Summit,
> then head for Irvington on its way to the Newark & New York Railroad (CNJ)
> terminal on Broad Street, which opened in Aug 1869.
>
> Construction began in 1870 from Summit toward Bernardsville.
>
> Dec 23 1871 - first service runs, Bernardsville to Summit.
>
> Feb 29 1872 - Charter supplement allows line to extend east to the Hudson
> River and to build a branch from Clinton to P'burg.
>
> Later in 1872, Packer and other reconsidered the NJWL and chartered the
> Easton & Amboy between P'burg and Perth Amboy.  This reduced their
> interest in the NJWL by its opening in 1875.
>
> NJWL went bankrupt (no date in Taber) and as sold to the DL&W on Aug 3
> 1878.  It was reorganized as the Passaic & Delaware Railroad then but the
> DL&W didn't formally lease it until Nov 1 1882.
>
> Apr 17 1890 - new charter for Passaic & Delaware Extension Railroad to
> build from Bernardsvile (original goal of the PV&P); opened Oct 10 1890.
>
> Gary R. Kazin
> DL&W Milepost R35.7
> Rockaway, New Jersey
>
>
>
>
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