News from Tuckerton, 1939
New Jersey Courier 8 Dec 1939
The old Tuckerton Railroad, famed in Ocean County history and known all over the United States as the smallest railroad company in the country, officially ended its existence Wednesday when the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington, D.C. granted its application to abandon the 12 mile line between Tuckerton and Barnegat and the spur from Manahawkin to Hilliard.
While it was known as the Tuckerton Railroad in Ocean County, the company was officially the Southern New Jersey, following its reorganization in 1939 by the H.E. Salzburg company of New York. The company stopped running trains two years ago, but Tuckerton and Manahawkin residents hoped that having the railroad in existence would give th em hopes of revival of rail connection with the outside world.
Mayor George W. PARKER, and residents of Tuckerton, were angered by the commission's ruling, and said they had not been officially notified of the hearing of the petition until Monday night.
However, the fact that the railroad will be torn up for scrap iron and its five employees will be dismissed should not prove serious to Tuckerton because of good bus service on the main New York-Atlantic City line and the heavy trucking traffic passing through the town.
The old Tuckerton Railroad, famed in Ocean County history and known all over the United States as the smallest railroad company in the country, officially ended its existence Wednesday when the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington, D.C. granted its application to abandon the 12 mile line between Tuckerton and Barnegat and the spur from Manahawkin to Hilliard.
While it was known as the Tuckerton Railroad in Ocean County, the company was officially the Southern New Jersey, following its reorganization in 1939 by the H.E. Salzburg company of New York. The company stopped running trains two years ago, but Tuckerton and Manahawkin residents hoped that having the railroad in existence would give th em hopes of revival of rail connection with the outside world.
Mayor George W. PARKER, and residents of Tuckerton, were angered by the commission's ruling, and said they had not been officially notified of the hearing of the petition until Monday night.
However, the fact that the railroad will be torn up for scrap iron and its five employees will be dismissed should not prove serious to Tuckerton because of good bus service on the main New York-Atlantic City line and the heavy trucking traffic passing through the town.
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