Frank Beck gets his nose broken, 1918
New Jersey Courier 24 May 1918
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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.
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.
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.
Train accident in Bricksburg, 1873
New Jersey Courier 10 Apr 1873 On Wednesday last, just after the 3 o'clock p.m. freight line had left the station and was nearly opposite the foundry buildings, Robert Hoft, a boy eleven years of age, son of Herman Hoft, one of the employees at the foundry, was caught under the wheel of the rear car and his right arm crushed and mangled in a shocking manner. His two brothers, one two years older and the other younger, were near him at the time of the accident and state that he attempted to get on the car by catching hold and clinging to the iron hand rods and the speed of the train, thouugh not running at a swift rate, threw him on the track and under the forward wheel of the truck. Dr. Gordon amputated the arm, assisted by Dr. Chase. The fracture extended so far above the elbow that amputation had to me made very near the shoulder and consequently increased danger of a fatal result, or more protracted time for recovery