Film Clips

No. 13 is seen approaching the Broad Street bridge in Summit, and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad interchange. The siding seen in the foreground leads to the RV's Summit station, freight house, and team track.

No. 13 approaches, and then crosses, Liberty Ave. in Union. Upon crossing the roadway, the train bisects what appears to be an open field. At the time, this was the Battle Hill Golf Club. This location is now the site of Bed, Bath & Beyond's corporate campus, Autumn Ridge (55+ community), and the Battle Hill housing development.

No. 13, with Caboose No. 102 in tow, has just departed the Lehigh Valley interchange at Roselle Park. The short train is now traversing the RV's short Lehigh Valley Branch, crossing W. Webster Ave. 

Either No. 13 or 14 (no number can be discerned) works at Baltusrol. Note the brakeman atop the boxcar relaying hand signals back to the engineer. The siding in the foreground is for Andrew Wilson, Inc., a pesticides dealer. The siding ended at a concrete bumping block alongside the Baltusrol depot. The block still exists today.

This film of No. 14 dates between 1938 and 1941. In October 1938, No. 14 was overhauled at the DL&W shops at Kingsland. The locomotive returned with this appearance, a unique sans-serif lettering on the tender and pinstripes. The first scene shows No. 14 backing up Tin Kettle Hill, note the Buffalo Creek & Gauley coal hopper coupled to the tender. At the switch to the Rahway River Branch (Can Branch) in Kenilworth, the rear cars are cut off. No. 14 then shoves a cut of cars across N. Michigan Ave. Cars set off on the main can be seen in the background. No. 14 continues shoving cars down the branch through a sparsely settled Kenilworth. Note the brakemen standing atop the boxcars. All cars were shoved down the Rahway River Branch, at this time, as all sidings were facing point switches. The final scene shows the RV's yard at Kenilworth

In this snowy scene, No. 14 shoves a cut of cars upgrade through Springfield. The grades on the hill between Springfield and Summit were as high as 5%. Note the brakeman standing atop one of the hoppers.

In the first scene, No. 15 has departed Springfield and is making the quick 1/2 mile dash between the Springfield and Baltusrol depots. In the next scene, showing the train going away, the Baltusrol depot can be seen. A boxcar is spotted on the Andrew Wilson, Inc. siding. The locomotive then rounds the curve and digs in for the climb up the Watchung Mountains.

No. 15 passes the North Jersey Quarry Co. in Springfield. This was earlier the Commonwealth quarry, later owned by Houdaille. Upon passing the camera, the locomotive rounds the curve and crosses the border into Summit.

In these scenes, which appear to be out of sequence, No. 15 is first shown to be departing Aldene and approaching the Westfield Ave. grade crossing. Roofing Sales Corp.'s building can be seen in the background. In the next scene, No. 15 is backing down CNJ's track six in order to reach the RV's own rails seen in the background. The final scene shows No. 15 coming off the CNJ and onto the RV's curve that brought it out of Aldene.

This film was shared with the Union Township Historical Society, and was shot in the 1970s in Union. 

The first shot shows a boxcar being offloaded at Ply-Gem (former Industrial Plywood) on Gelb Ave. in Union. The second shots show locomotive No. 16 running light along the top leg of the wye at Branch Junction. The locomotive then backs down the mainline past Carpenter Steel. Their large door, where a rail siding entered, is seen behind the locomotive. No. 16 then approaches the Route 22 westbound crossing. The locomotive then pulls back past Carpenter Steel with a Great Northern boxcar in tow. The short train then reverses direction and shoves the boxcar up the top leg of the wye. No. 16 is then seen behind tanks belonging to Gelb. Ply-Gem is seen at the right.

This video was taken by Daniel G. McFadden with live sound on June 5, 1980. The video starts by showing General Electric 70-ton locomotive No. 16 drilling cars around the shops and offices at Kenilworth. Afterwards, No. 16 is shown approaching and crossing Route 22 in Union.

This video was shot by Daniel G. McFadden. For one week in June 1980, the Rahway Valley Railroad operated the UCTC Limited between Kenilworth and Baltusrol. The train was operated as a shuttle service to ferry spectators to the US Open at the Baltusrol Golf Club. Passenger cars were borrowed from the Delaware Otsego Corporation. The first shot shows where the train was boarded behind Heyman Manufacturing Company in Kenilworth. The second shot shows Engineer Eddie Jones. The third shot shows the train working its way through Springfield and crossing the Van Winkle's Brook bridge.

This video was shot by Daniel G. McFadden. For one week in June 1980, the Rahway Valley Railroad operated the UCTC Limited between Kenilworth and Baltusrol. The train was operated as a shuttle service to ferry spectators to the US Open at the Baltusrol Golf Club. Passenger cars were borrowed from the Delaware Otsego Corporation. This shot shows the train crossing Route 22 in Union.