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4/20/2024
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Viewing Album:  OLD NJ RR POSTCARDS
 
By:Jim Gavin
Dates:1/1/1900 - 1/1/1940
Album Info:Most of these early 1900's postcards are from Northern New Jersey with a couple from Southern New York. For the most part, they fall into the 1900-1920 time frame. Although not a RR postcard collector, I'll pick one up from time to time if it shows an old picture of a place I'm familiar with. Enjoy. Latest update: 8/24/08-10 new pictures.
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NYC West Shore Line station.
Title:  NYC West Shore Line station.
Description:  Main Street now crosses the tracks on the right hand side of the building.
Photo Date:  1/1/1900  Upload Date: 8/24/2008 7:13:54 AM
Location:  Bergenfield, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
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Views:  327   Comments: 0
DL&W (NJT) Station
Title:  DL&W (NJT) Station
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/30/1907  Upload Date: 6/1/2008 6:47:55 AM
Location:  Summit, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  373   Comments: 0
Erie NJ&NY (Pascack Valley) station
Title:  Erie NJ&NY (Pascack Valley) station
Description:  This is a street-side view of the depot dated 1907. No longer a station stop under NJT, the building is under private ownership.
Photo Date:  7/18/1907  Upload Date: 3/16/2008 8:03:20 AM
Location:  Hackensack, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  294   Comments: 0
Erie depot
Title:  Erie depot
Description:  Here is a view of Ridgewood station before the streets were under-cut, eliminatating the crossings. Postmarked 1907. The train is an Eastbound to Jersey City.
Photo Date:  7/29/1907  Upload Date: 3/16/2008 7:35:56 AM
Location:  Ridgewood, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station,Steam,Action
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Views:  335   Comments: 0
Erie NJ&NY RR Station
Title:  Erie NJ&NY RR Station
Description:  Today there is a commuter parking lot and a plastic shelter at this location. The postcard is postmarked August 19, 1907.
Photo Date:  8/19/1907  Upload Date: 6/1/2008 6:34:19 AM
Location:  Hackensack, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  322   Comments: 1
Bergenfield, NJ Train Station 1908
Title:  Bergenfield, NJ Train Station 1908
Description:  This view of Bergenfield, NJ is postmarked 1908. I wonder if those steps next to the tracks have something to do with handing up mail on the fly to an RPO car.
Photo Date:  1/1/1908  Upload Date: 3/16/2008 6:40:34 AM
Location:  Bergenfield, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
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Views:  966   Comments: 0
Erie (NJT) Station
Title:  Erie (NJT) Station
Description:  This building was replaced at some point by the present one.
Photo Date:  7/12/1908  Upload Date: 6/1/2008 6:14:55 AM
Location:  Montvale, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  229   Comments: 0
Erie Northern Branch Station
Title:  Erie Northern Branch Station
Description:  An Erie steamer makes a station stop at Cresskill on the Northern Branch. The postmark is 1909.
Photo Date:  1/1/1909  Upload Date: 3/16/2008 7:09:20 AM
Location:  Cresskill, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station,Steam
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Views:  735   Comments: 0
NYC West Shore (River Line) Station
Title:  NYC West Shore (River Line) Station
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1909  Upload Date: 6/1/2008 6:08:21 AM
Location:  Dumont, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
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Views:  555   Comments: 0
DL&W (NJT) Broad Street Station
Title:  DL&W (NJT) Broad Street Station
Description:  The postmark is January 27, 1909.
Photo Date:  1/27/1909  Upload Date: 6/1/2008 6:42:30 AM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  698   Comments: 0
Erie (NJT) Station
Title:  Erie (NJT) Station
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/22/1909  Upload Date: 6/1/2008 6:53:09 AM
Location:  Rutherford, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  223   Comments: 1
NJ&NY RR (Pascack Valley) Station
Title:  NJ&NY RR (Pascack Valley) Station
Description:  The Central Avenue station on the current NJT Pascack Valley Line was located about halfway between Essex Street and Anderson Street depots, near where the NYS&W bridge now crosses over this track.
Photo Date:  1/1/1910  Upload Date: 3/16/2008 7:00:05 AM
Location:  Hackensack, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  397   Comments: 0
DL&W Terminal and Ferries
Title:  DL&W Terminal and Ferries
Description:  A view of the DL&W ferry slips taken from the river. The boat on the right is the Orange. The card is postmarked 1910.
Photo Date:  1/1/1910  Upload Date: 3/16/2008 7:15:42 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  596   Comments: 1
Erie and DL&W tunnels
Title:  Erie and DL&W tunnels
Description:  A Westbound Erie train comes off the viaduct and is about to pass under the Lackawanna tracks near Croxton Yard.
Photo Date:  1/1/1910  Upload Date: 8/24/2008 7:23:56 AM
Location:  Jersey City, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Tunnel,Bridge,Steam,Passenger,Action
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Views:  840   Comments: 0
Erie NJ&NY RR station.
Title:  Erie NJ&NY RR station.
Description:  The station sign says Woodcliff because there was no lake until the building of the Oradell reservoir dam in the 1920's.
Photo Date:  1/1/1910  Upload Date: 8/24/2008 7:30:58 AM
Location:  Woodcliff Lake, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  216   Comments: 0
DL&W terminal
Title:  DL&W terminal
Description:  Hoboken Terminal shortly after its 1908 construction.
Photo Date:  1/1/1910  Upload Date: 8/24/2008 7:38:21 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  462   Comments: 0
DL&W station
Title:  DL&W station
Description:  The Dover station looks about the same today.
Photo Date:  1/1/1910  Upload Date: 8/24/2008 7:43:42 AM
Location:  Dover, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  361   Comments: 0
NYC West Shore station
Title:  NYC West Shore station
Description:  The Haworth station on a rather beat up old postcard.
Photo Date:  1/1/1910  Upload Date: 8/24/2008 7:55:45 AM
Location:  Haworth, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  430   Comments: 0
Erie NJ&NY RR Anderson Street station
Title:  Erie NJ&NY RR Anderson Street station
Description:  Looks like Anderson Street was still a dirt road.
Photo Date:  1/1/1910  Upload Date: 8/24/2008 8:01:50 AM
Location:  Hackensack, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  932   Comments: 0
DL&W tunnel
Title:  DL&W tunnel
Description:  The postcard says this is the East end of the tunnel, but it looks like the West end to me. Not sure.
Photo Date:  1/1/1910  Upload Date: 8/24/2008 8:14:09 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Tunnel,Steam
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Views:  519   Comments: 0
DL&W Steam Passenger Train
Title:  DL&W Steam Passenger Train
Description:  This postcard, postmarked 1910, shows a 3 car Lackawanna train near Millburn on the Morris and Essex Line.
Photo Date:  4/25/1910  Upload Date: 3/16/2008 7:23:00 AM
Location:  Millburn, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Steam,Action
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Views:  299   Comments: 0
Steetcar on Washington Street
Title:  Steetcar on Washington Street
Description:  Washington Street is double tracked in 1910. You can see part of Hoboken Terminal at the end of the street.
Photo Date:  7/19/1910  Upload Date: 6/1/2008 6:58:28 AM
Location:  Hoboken, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
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Views:  397   Comments: 0
Pascack Valley (NJ&NY RR) Station
Title:  Pascack Valley (NJ&NY RR) Station
Description:  The Spring Valley station and Main Street crossing are shown on this card postmarked 1910.
Photo Date:  8/5/1910  Upload Date: 3/16/2008 7:29:33 AM
Location:  Spring Valley, NY
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  280   Comments: 0
Erie station
Title:  Erie station
Description:  This station looks like it is a few hundred feet west of the present one. The New York State Thruway crosses over the tracks at this location today.
Photo Date:  6/24/1911  Upload Date: 6/1/2008 6:20:22 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  338   Comments: 0
Erie Northern Branch Station
Title:  Erie Northern Branch Station
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/18/1913  Upload Date: 6/1/2008 6:28:53 AM
Location:  Tenafly, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  387   Comments: 0
Erie Northern Branch Station
Title:  Erie Northern Branch Station
Description:  The image on this card is slightly blurry, but it looks like a weekend or Holiday scene since there are so many women waiting for the train. A weekday scene in 1914, the postmark date, would show mostly men, since women didn't work back then. The engine may be an Erie 4-6-0.
Photo Date:  1/1/1914  Upload Date: 3/16/2008 6:50:47 AM
Location:  Tenafly, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station,Steam
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Views:  578   Comments: 1
Erie station
Title:  Erie station
Description:  A birds eye view of the Ridgewood station before most of the outside area was turned into a parking lot.
Photo Date:  1/1/1925  Upload Date: 8/24/2008 7:49:26 AM
Location:  Ridgewood, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  277   Comments: 0
NYC West Shore (RIVER LINE) Station
Title:  NYC West Shore (RIVER LINE) Station
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/1927  Upload Date: 6/1/2008 7:06:00 AM
Location:  Bergenfield, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  457   Comments: 0
NYC West Shore station
Title:  NYC West Shore station
Description:  This station was gone by the 1950's.
Photo Date:  1/1/1940  Upload Date: 8/24/2008 8:07:11 AM
Location:  Dumont, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  388   Comments: 0
DL&W Gladstone Branch station
Title:  DL&W Gladstone Branch station
Description:  This view of the Bernardsville station on the Lackawanna's Gladstone Branch is postmarked 1945.
Photo Date:  6/18/1945  Upload Date: 3/16/2008 7:42:03 AM
Location:  Bernardsville, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Station
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Views:  329   Comments: 1

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