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Re: (rshsdepot) Hoboken Pleasure Railway

From the description (the link has an error) it sounds like John Stevens' experimental operation on the grounds of his estate in Hoboken (circle of wooden track), now the property of Stevens Institute. This was the "test pilot" operation for future New Jersey railroading in the 1830's.
Don Dorflinger

>From: I95BERNIEW_@_aol.com 
>Reply-To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net 
>To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net 
>Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Hoboken Pleasure Railway 
>Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 22:23:09 EST 
> 
>In a message dated 12/16/01 9:19:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>luckyshow_@_mindspring.com writes: 
> 
><< OK, anyone know anything about the "Pleasure Railway at Hoboken, 1833, >> 
> 
>I never heard of it before your post, but found the following describing it: 
> 
>"RAYNOR'S Regatta Pavilion took an entire blk on Kent 
>b/w No.6th & 7th, running down to the rivers edge, partly 
>on a bluff. There was a garden and a pleasure railway of wood 
>that ran in a circle, refreshments of all kinds were served, 
>a place for regattas." 
> 
>From the description and the lithograph, it appears it was not a railway, the 
>way we think of a railway today. It was apparently something built to 
>attract customers to the ferry from New York to Hoboken by offering an 
>attraction on the New Jersey side of the river. 
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