Girl jumps off train in Toms River, 1875
Lakewood Times and Journal 25 Oct 1875
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Millard Jamison obituary, 1886
New Jersey Courier, Wednesday December 22,1886: "An accident occurred at the crossing of the New Jersey Southern Railway at Ridgeway yesterday morning, resulting in the death of a man directly in front of his home, and within twenty yards of it. Millard F Jameson, a son in law of John H Irons, had been at work with his father-in-law a short distance from his home. Shortly after eleven o'clock, he started for home to put up his team. To reach home he was compelled to cross the railroad track. Train No. 10, William Savage, engineer and George Brown conducter, left Lakwewood at 10:45, for Barnegat, being due at this town at 11:20. When within a short distance of the Ridgeway crossing, the engineer saw Jameson on the track with his team. The air brakes were at once put on, the engine reversed and the throttle pulled wide open, but too late to avert the catastrophe, although the train was stopped within two hundred feet of the spot where it was when Jameson was first seen.
Accident near Bear Swamp, 1881
Hunterdon Democrat 7 Jun 1881 A serious accident occurred on the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Bear Swamp, near Trenton, on Monday afternoon, to the fast train which leaves New York at 3:15, consisting of an engine, baggage car, Pullman car, and three other cars. It was caused by a misplaced switch; the engine, the baggage and Pullman cars passed over safely, but the three other cars left the track, one completely overturning and about a dozen passengers were more or less injured. One old lady, Lucretia Pennington, aged 81 years, died of her injuries about 6 o'clock. Mr. Augustus B. Ritter, of Philadelphia, was killed by the truck being forced through the bottom of the car.
A preserved track from the Tuckerton Railroad
down in Barnegat, there's this nice display and preserved section of track from the Tuckerton RR. It was set up by an Eagle Scout. I took these photos of it in late March 2009.
The plight of Barnegat Pier in 1916
New Jersey Courier 14 Jul 1916 The fishing season at Barnegat Pier just about opened this week. The fleet can be found there mornings waiting for parties. The Pier is not as good a stand as it was five years ago. Now all the parties from up the beach resorts, come by auto, and either stop at Seaside Park,or else come down the main shore road to Forked River, Waretown, or Barnegat. This leaves only the Philadelphia and Camden and vicinity trade for Barnegat Pier. To make it worse, the railroad is all the time advertising the south Jersey fishing resorts, like Stone Harbor, and Anglesea, but will do nothing to exploit Barnegat Pier. If the railroad would take a hand, and help, the business at the Pier could be built up in a couple of summers far surpassing anything that it ever was in the past, for there are thousands of fishermen in Philadelphia who would come down if they knew about the place.
Preserved section of track from the Tuckerton Railroad in Barnegat
took these photos in 2009, I believe this was part of an Eagle Scout's project.
