The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-01-21
Pennsylvania Railroad
1925 Calendar
Shows Broadway Limited

The New Year sees our great nation
celebrating the One Hundred and Fifth
eth anniversary Of its birth by an
appropriate sesquicente nnial Exposition
in Philadelphia. Every patriotic man
and woman will find new thrill ia his
and her AmericanisIn as we lock back
/ through the years to the day when that
intrepid group Of So men declared that
+ we are and ofright ought to be free and
independent.
i During this big National celebration
/ the Pennsylvania will mark the eight
ieth year of its existence For more
than half the lifetime Of the United
States, this Transportation System
has served the peopIeof America.
For the subject fer the calendar, we
/ sent Mr.. Harry Brett, an eminent artist,
4 over our System to visualize Pennsyl-
vania Service. Ii found inspiration
| for a great painting when he saw the
| Broadway limited sweeping ma
jesticaIly over the famous Rockville
Bridge.
Nothing more perfectly illustrates the
| splendid achievements of our countryl
Theadvance from the feeble, little To-
connective running over q single track,
to the perfection in 1926 transportation
shown IN the picture yivitiy tells the
story Of the years.
The picture on the calendar certainly
| is wonderful transformation from
| the dry goods box shaped cab with its
horizontal engine and the small jump
car for wood attached to the box cab
and its two or three wooden cars trail
+ ing behind The old silver headlight
of kerosene or petroleum oil patterned
after the later student lamps and the
whistle made from pewter and the bell
on the top at front OF the box and the
sweeping wooden cow-catcher that
! was 10 front of the train engsne driver
will be remembered by our older resi-.
ldents. enc Of the dfy-goods box en-
gines that was on the Freehold~J James
burg branch was name Monmouth,
and the other Jamie, the latter name
being for james Bnckelew, grandchild
Of James Buckelew, the promoter of
the road and son Of the late Superin-t
tendent, l. s. Buckelew. Tne grand
lson is nav Superintendent Of one of
the divisions Of the r. X. r..
The roof of the engine cab was tin and
an ordinary tin smoke pipe poked it
self through the center slightly raised
sloping elevation.
Persons now are alive who remember
the long double rows Of wood along
the r. u J. Agricultural Railroad on
Ihrockmorton street, delivered there in
four feet lengths at 81 per cord.
Both the engine, tender and cars were
fancifully painted and the interior of
/ the passenger coaches were supposed
to be dream Of beauty III yellow, red.
Glue and gold color stripping. Just be-
y0nd the old wood stove at either end
Of the coach was painting very pretti-
! ly executed on the wood panel The
passengers for light at night had an
extension or let down trellis work can
gde-stick fastened alongside the green
shutters inside long narrow, windows,
at every seat.
The q shaped short rails with the
hanges the same on both sides laid on
this line at first with the iron black
smltll's uneven round headed iron
spikes will also be remembered by cd
patrons.
The changing Of the bell on top of the
station b quarter of an hour before the
departure Of each train was the notice
that connection would be made at
JameSbnrg with Camden 81 Amboy
trains il steanisheld out and all went
we'll with the coaches and crew.
JThe earliest conductors ON this short
Extension was Charles Hayiiand and
I Charles r. Matthews, the latter late Of
ArdeDa, both now deceased Later
two other well known conductors were
Charles Cox and James Riddle, both
| deceased, the former of Jamesburg and
the latter OF Manasquan.
Charles Worts and James Applegate
we're engineers for many years. The
former resided at Jamesburg and the
latter at Freehold while the conduc-
tor Of the freight train was James P.
Ryan Of Jamesburg all now deceased
The train lookout was perched on
the front passenger car, while buggy
top protected him from the weather
Michael Dolan was the train look -out
lin the early days.
To those who have seen the great
change from the horizontal type Of To-
connective with speed of IS miles an
hour to the mile minute great iron
monster drawing the long train OF
the broadway Limited, as depicted
10 the painting by Harold NJ Brett, as
! this train glides over the famous Rock
vile bridge with its four tracks, eer-
tainly has most startling reminderof
the advance Of mechanical engineering
.snd the most finished scientific won
3ier Of this progressive age.
Below is not presumed to be poetry
except of new kind, with words Of
praise sentimentally expressed
pTHE BROADWAY LIMITED
The giant iron monster
Like the fleeing years
u ...aL. a. a $. IN sl..a1ad