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Washington State RailroadsJul 11, 22 04:19 PMWashington railroads' earliest history began with the Cascade Portage Railway of 1851.
The New Jersey Western was the most profitable of the roads and, led by Cornelius Wortendyke, began operating atHawthorne in 1869.
A September 1872 map of the New Jersey Midland Railway noting that "since this map was engraved, the names of some of the Stations on this road have been changed, among which is West Hackensack, which has been changed to Maywood". (MSHC collection courtesy of Mary Courtney)
The New York, Susquehanna & Western officially began as a culmination of six small railroads that had been hit hard by the Financial Panic of 1873:
The cover page of the May 1874 New Jersey Midland Railway Official Pocket Timetable.
An 1875 New Jersey Midland Railway stock certificate issued to R. P. Terhune in the amount of 100 shares.
An 1880 Midland Railroad Company of New Jersey un-issued 6% income $1000 bond certificate.
The new railroad was to be called the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad Company, founded in the summer of 1881 as a means of handling coal from eastern Pennsylvania to New York City.
The cover page of the June 27, 1886 New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad Timetable. (MSHC collection)
By 1896 both projects were completed and the railroad began to build north of Wilkes-Barre to Scranton and beyond.
As such, in 1898 the Erie Railroad began purchasing the NYS&W's stock in large amounts and formally controlled the railroad by July of that year.
An October 10, 1899 NYS&W Bill of Lading for a delivery that arrived in a Pennsylvania Railroad box car at Maywood Station for the nearby Standard Essence Company.
A circa 1900 "colorized view" of the east end of Maywood Station.
Leigh K. Lydecker's August 1906 ticket for commutation between Maywood and New York City.
A 1907 postcard view of Maywood Station. (Pat Reynolds collection)
The station was also Maywood's first Post Office and invariably served this capacity until about 1910. (Pat Reynolds collection)
A 1912 view looking west of Maywood Station.
In this rare 1920 postcard view looking south on Maywood Avenue, the northeast end of the station is shown with Kriegstein's convience store in the background. (Pat Reynolds collection)
The photo looks like it could have been taken in the 1920's. (Photo by Ed Kaminski)
Maywood Station as it appeared circa 1925.
NYS&W #34, a 4-6-0 Camelback-type locomotive, approaches Maywood Station with a commuter train bound for Jersey City, NJ in October 1926. (MSHC collection)
A 1930's view of an eastbound freight just east of Maywood Station led by an Erie Railroad 2-8-2 Mikado type steam locomotive.
Beyond the loss in revenue from The Great Depression, the railroad was struck a further blow by flooding in 1936, requiring costly repair of track and equipment.
These factors coupled with the Great Depression finally forced the NYS&W into bankruptcy on June 1, 1937.
In 1937, a pair of mortgage bonds the railroad had taken out came due, and the railroad could not afford repayment.
The spring of 1938 saw a one-third reduction in commuter trains from Butler to Susquehanna Transfer, with additional runs cut that summer.
A circa 1940 postcard view of Maywood Station.
In 1940 the railroad severed the last of its ties with the Erie as it began working with the New York, Ontario and Western Railway, sharing office facilities and shops at Middletown.
An early 1950's view from the Route 17 overpass of westbound NYS&W M-1, a self-propelled Budd Rail Diesel Car, leaving Maywood for Rochelle Park. (Pat Reynolds collection)
Norton also brokered the trading-in of the ACF cars for purchase of the railroad’s first Budd RDC cars by 1950.
New York Susquehanna & Western - 1950
Westbound Train #929 led by NYS&W RS-1 #234 arrives at Maywood Station on July 30, 1954. (Photo by Walter E. Zullig Jr. from the collection of Pat Reynolds)
NYS&W M-3, a self-propelled Budd Rail Diesel Car, motors westbound past Maywood Station on July 26, 1956. (MSHC Collection)
However, the recession of 1957 spelled the beginning of a new era for NYS&W. The Ontario and Western succumbed to the down turned economy and was torn up that same year.
NYS&W 46-trip Monthly Commutation Ticket Book for travel between Maywood and Jersey City, NJ issued to M. Bertie dated February 24, 1959. (MSHC collection courtesy of William Worth, Jr.)
Station in Hackensack, NJ enroute to Maywood Station in the early 1960's. (Pat Reynolds collection)
Morning commuters begin to load eastbound Train #916 led by freshly painted NYS&W RS-1 #244 at Maywood Station on February 19, 1961. (Ed Kaminski collection)
The nearby Lehigh and New England Railroad folded in 1961, and the pressure mounted for the Susquehanna.
The were the roads first new power in eight years, and the first new EMD power since 1962.
Eastbound Train #916 arrives at Maywood Station on July 5, 1963 with NYS&W RS-1 #238 and two Erie "Stillwell" coaches.
NYS&W RS-1 #231 with Train #923 arrives at Maywood Station on May 20, 1964. (Photo by George Berisso courtesy of Thomas J. Callan)
Westbound Train #929 departs Maywood Station on May 28, 1965.
NYS&W RS-1 #238 is in charge of a local freight heading west past Maywood Station in July 1968. (Photo by John Krause/Ed Kaminski collection)
NYS&W RS-1 #240 is shown heading south with a local freight on the Lodi Branch at the Essex Street crossing in Maywood, NJ in November 1970. (Robert P. Pisani collection)
By the time Conrail was formed in 1976 the railroad was up for abandonment and was actually considering being shutdown and sold off altogether.
A view of Maywood Station during the winter of 1979. (Photo by Gregory Lewis/MSHC collection)
A September 1980 view of Maywood Station.
However, while the Interstate Commerce Commission contemplated the railroad's fate it was purchased by the Delaware Otsego Corporation in 1980, which had the capital to restored the company.
In 1982 it purchased former lines of the DL&W around Utica and Syracuse, New York from Conrail.
In mid-1985 the NYS&W began an isolated service from Warwick to Sparta on this newly acquired line.
However in late 1985, the NYS&W announced that they would rebuild the line to Sparta, NJ. There it would join with the recently-purchased portion of the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway.
Chessie System GP40-2 #6072 leads eastbound intermodal train SLN-4 past Maywood Station in November 1986. (Photo by Pat Reynolds)
Work began in the spring of 1986, and was mostly completed by October of that year.
NYS&W NW-2 #116 passes Maywood Station heading east with a local freight in July 1987.
NYS&W B40-8 #4006 leads an eastbound inspection train past Maywood Station in November 1988. (Photo by Pat Reynolds)
NYSW B40-8's #4042 and #4024 approach Maywood Station with eastbound road freight SU-100 on May 31, 1989. (Photo by Robert P. Pisani)
In 1990, Canadian Pacific Railway purchased the D&H, and the CSX-financed Dash 8-40B engines were returned.
1990 also saw the NYS&W end service on its Edgewater Branch, a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) long line connecting its former Hudson River terminal with the mainline in Fairview at Undercliff Junction.
The tail-end of a NYS&W Board of Directors Inspection Train approaches Maywood Station heading east on January 17, 1991. (Photo by Robert P. Pisani)
In late December 1991, the railroad completed the purchase of a similar locomotive from the Valley Railroad in Essex, Connecticut.
In 1991, the Canadian Pacific Railway was announced as the successful bidder of the D&H property.
In 1994 Onondaga County, New York purchased the former DL&W line into Syracuse, with the provision that the NYS&W operate RDCservice in Syracuse between Syracuse University, Armory Square, and the Carousel Mall with the option for further routes.
In 1995, the railroad purchased two former CB&Q/BN EMD E9 units for passenger excursion service, and three brand new EMD SD70Ms for freight service.
NYS&W E-9 #2402 has just passed Maywood Station and is running eastbound to North Bergen, NJ from Warwick, NY with a NYS&WT&HS "Fall Foliage Excursion Train" on November 8, 1998. (Photo by Ed Kaminski)
In 1999, CSX and Norfolk Southern split up Conrail between themselves, with the two railroads taking away all of NYS&W’s intermodal business.
Maywood Station as it appeared in October 2000.
An aerial view of Maywood Station looking west taken in April 2003. (Robert P. Pisani collection)
In 2005, the NYS&W leased the former Erie Main Line from Port Jervis to Binghamton from Norfolk Southern.
Torrential rains in late June 2006 damaged both lines, and the Utica branch between Greene and Sherburne was out of service since then due to flood damage.
F45 3636 was rebuilt and returned to service early in 2006.
Because there are no customers between these two points, the NYS&W announced in February 2007 that it intends to abandon this section of the Utica Branch, the railroad's first abandonment in well over three decades.[citation needed]
In March 2008 the railroad started selling off its historic passenger rolling stock to various concerns.
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