NJ RR Heritage Festival This Sunday - Boonton NJ

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Also see our post on Wednesday, below.

NJ RR & Transportation Heritage Festival

Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012

100 Morris Ave., Boonton NJ

Schedule of Events

CNJ Room (In the Freight House building) (All Free)

10am Bill McKelvey        Rails along the Morris Canal

10:30 Kathy Fisher         The Dam RR (Rockaway River & Montville RR)

11:00 Bill McKelvey       1937 Yellow Coach Restoration Project

11:30 Mitch Dakelman    The GG-1 1930’s Publicity Film by the Pennsylvania RR

1:00 Bill Greenberg         Morris County Traction Co.

2:15 Frank Reilly            Short Lines Railroads of NJ in the 1950s & 1960s

3:00 Bob Bahrs              DL&W–EL–NJT: Final Days of Electric Trains

4:00 Bill McKelvey         Clang, Clang, Clang went the Trolley! NJ’s street cars

Erie-Lackawanna Room (In the Freight House building) (ALL Free)

10:00 Grace Mancini-Introna      Operation Lifesaver (for children & adults, free books)

11:00 Grace Mancini-Introna      Operation Lifesaver (for children & adults, free books)

11:30 Kevin Phalon                    Railroading in NJ in the 1990s-2013, Part I

1:00 Grace Mancini-Introna       Operation Lifesaver (for children & adults, free books)

1:30 Kevin Phalaon                    Railroading in NJ in the 1990s-2013, Part 2

2:00 Grace Mancini-Introna       Operation Lifesaver (for children & adults, free books)

2:30 Kevin Phalon                     Railroading in NJ in the 1990s-2013, Part 3

3:00 Grace Mancini-Introna      Operation Lifesaver (for children & adults, free books)

3:30 Kevin Phalon                    Railroading in NJ in the 1990s-2013, Part 4

4:00 Grace Mancini-Introna      Operation Lifesaver (for children & adults, free books)

Fill In    Bill McKelvey            Trucks in NJ’s Transportation Heritage

Lackawanna RR Room (In the Freight House building)

10am – 4:30pm Exhibits (Free) and SALE of Memorabilia, Antiques, Books, etc.

Outside
10-4:30

• Trains: Historic, old electric and diesel locomotives, passenger cars, freight cars, and track cars. Some have been restored and some await restoration. Feel free to walk around and get a close look at these giants of the rails.
• Military vehicles, antique trucks, and vintage buses.
• Giant Military Band Organ (one of a few remaining in the USA) owned by Rusty King
• Trolley Car model train layout by Tony Hall

  

Noon Special Awards Presentations at the Pennsylvania RR #4877 electric locomotive

10:00, Noon, & 4:30 Diesel locomotive air-horn are blown one at a time.

The United Railroad Historical Society Inc. of NJ is comprised of these non-profit groups:

Bergen-Rockland Chapter, NRHS Chapter

Black River & Western RR Historic Trust

Central RR of NJ Historical Society

Erie-Lackawanna RR Historical Society

Jersey Central Railway Historical Society, NRHS Chapter

Lackawanna Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society

Liberty Historic Railway

New York, Susquehanna & Western Technical and Historical Society

North Jersey Chapter, NRHS Chapter

North Jersey Electric Railway Historical Soc.

Ontario & Western Ry. Historical Society

Tri-State Railway Historical Society, NRHS Chapter

Volunteer Railroaders Association

West Jersey Chapter, NRHS Chapter

Whippany Railway Museum