Thomas Hamlin Hubbard on the Cut-Off as construction landfills. This triggered a negative public reaction, and a push to have the State of New Jersey acquire the Cut-Off through eminent domain. From 1987 to 1989, representatives from NJRCA met with public officials in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania in an effort to solidify support for preserving the line and, in New Jersey, to support the creation of a state bond issue to fund the state's acquisition of the Cut-Off. An agreement was struck with then-New Jersey Assemblyman Chuck Haytaian to support the extension of NJ Transit rail service 	North Jersey Rail Commuter Association
25300342	to Hackettstown, New Jersey, in turn for his support of the Lackawanna Cut-Off project and the bond issue. During the same timeframe, NJRCA also met several times with Turco in an effort to dissuade him from pursuing the destruction of the Cut-Off. As such, a state bond issue was successfully approved by the voters in New Jersey in November, 1989, which set aside $25 million for the purchase of rail rights-of-way in New Jersey. Starting in 1990, the New Jersey Department of Transportation initiated the use of eminent domain against Turco and Goldmeier, resulting in 	North Jersey Rail Commuter Association
25300343	the State of New Jersey acquiring the right-of-way for a total of $21 million in 2001. At present, NJRCA continues to work with public officials in advocacy for the reactivation of the Lackawanna Cut-Off, specifically, at this point, the extension of rail service to Andover, New Jersey. However, the group will continue to be involved in the advocacy for the extension of service along the entire length of the Cut-Off in New Jersey for the foreseeable future. Railroad museum activities. With its rich transportation history, and the lack of a unifying entity to preserve it	North Jersey Rail Commuter Association
25300344	, rail and transportation advocates in New Jersey began seeking support for the creation of a state museum during the 1980s. An independent state commission was created by an act of the New Jersey State Legislature in 1986. The 16-member body was charged with identifying a site as well as funding for the museum. In 1989, the commission recommended that an unspecified site in Flemington, New Jersey, be designated as the museum's home. With no funding available, however, the idea of creating such a museum was temporarily set aside. In 1996, NJRCA President Charles Walsh was nominated to serve 	North Jersey Rail Commuter Association
25300345	on a newly constituted state commission that would revisit the creation of a state railroad and transportation museum in New Jersey. Shortly thereafter, NJRCA helped establish the Netcong-Port Morris (N-PM) Site Committee. The N-PM Site Committee's main responsibility was to act as a liaison between the museum commission and the towns—Netcong, NJ and Roxbury Township, New Jersey—that would be home to the museum. In addition to representatives from NJRCA, the committee had representatives from Netcong Boro and Roxbury Township, members of the railfan community, canal enthusiasts, Amtrak, preservationists, and other ad hoc members from 	North Jersey Rail Commuter Association
25300346	the region. In October, 1998, the commission's chairman, Assemblyman Alex DeCroce, announced that the choice had been narrowed down to three sites in New Jersey: Phillipsburg, Plainfield and Netcong-Port Morris. By the time this announcement was made, it had become clear that the majority of members on the NJ State Railroad & Transportation Museum Commission were in favor of placing the museum in Phillipsburg. Subsequently, in early 1999, DeCroce permitted a vote to take place that designated Phillipsburg as the museum site. Walsh, however, continued to openly support the Netcong-Port Morris site, leading to his not being reappointed 	North Jersey Rail Commuter Association
25300347	to the commission when his term expired later that year. Walsh's seat on the commission was filled by transportation magnate Anthony Imperatore. As such, Walsh, in conjunction with NJRCA and the N-PM Site Committee continued to advocate for the Netcong-Port Morris site and in the process gained the support of New Jersey State Senate leader Robert Littell, who at that time was the chairman of the New Jersey Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, and who struck an agreement with DeCroce to amend proposed legislation from the New Jersey General Assembly to designate both Phillipsburg and Netcong-Port 	North Jersey Rail Commuter Association
25300348	Morris as joint sites for the museum. The legislation was subsequently signed into law in 2001. Since that time, there has been activity within Phillipsburg to attempt to build the museum there, although the originally envisioned site, which is privately owned, was never acquired by the state of New Jersey and has since been designated for other purposes. In Netcong, there has been little activity thus far, although with the reactivation of the Lackawanna Cut-Off it is envisioned that the train station in Netcong could act as the eastern terminus for Steamtown train excursions from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Proposals for 	North Jersey Rail Commuter Association
25300349	current and future projects. In addition to the Lackawanna Cut-Off project, NJRCA has advocated the Gateway Tunnel (formerly known as the ARC Tunnel), including the proposal for run-through tracks at Penn Station, New York, with a connection to Grand Central Station. NJRCA has also proposed weekend rail service be instituted along the entire length of NJ Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line; that the Montclair-Boonton Line between Great Notch, NJ and Denville, New Jersey be electrified; and that all or part of NJ Transit's Gladstone Branch be double-tracked. North Jersey Rail Commuter Association The North Jersey 	North Jersey Rail Commuter Association
25300350	Thomas Hamlin Hubbard Thomas Hamlin Hubbard Thomas Hamlin Hubbard (December 20, 1838 – May 19, 1915) was a Union Army colonel from Maine during the Civil War who was awarded the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general, United States Volunteers, for meritorious service. After the war, Hubbard was a lawyer, railroad executive, financier, businessman and philanthropist. Soldier, lawyer, philanthropist, and financier, Hubbard was best known for his enthusiasm for Arctic exploration, which contributed to the discovery of the North Pole. Following the death of founding President Morris K. Jesup in 1908, he became President of the Peary Arctic Club, which had been formed in 	Thomas Hamlin Hubbard
25300351	1898 to give Admiral Robert E. Peary financial backing in his polar quest. Even after this quest had ended in success Hubbard's interest in the frozen north did not end, and he was one of the financial contributors to the Donald B. MacMillan expedition in the Arctic studying the native tribes. Early life. Hubbard was born in Hallowell, Maine, December 20, 1838. He was the second son of Maine governor Dr. John Hubbard, who signed the unpopular Maine Liquor Law in 1851. After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1857 and studying law, he was admitted to the bar. He 	Thomas Hamlin Hubbard
25300352	then moved to New York and began studies at Albany Law School. He received his LL.B. in 1861, and was admitted to the New York bar. In the Civil War. The Civil War soon broke out, and the young lawyer went to the front as a first lieutenant and adjutant with the 25th Maine Infantry, a nine-month regiment. Hubbard later enlisted in the 30th Maine Infantry as lieutenant colonel. He had a hand in the construction of the famous Red River Dam, which was built to raise the water level so that Federal gunboats which had run aground could 	Thomas Hamlin Hubbard
25300353	be floated out of danger, and his services as a whole were so conspicuous and so valuable that on June 2, 1864 he was made colonel of his regiment. He succeeded Colonel Francis Fessenden, who had been promoted to brigadier general, U.S. Volunteers, May 10, 1864. Hubbard resigned his commission on July 23, 1865. On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Hubbard to the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general, to rank from March 13, 1865. The United States Senate confirmed the award on March 12, 1866. Post-war life. On January 28, 1868, Hubbard married Sibyl A. Fahnestock 	Thomas Hamlin Hubbard
25300354	of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Two sons of this marriage died in childhood. Three children survived him, John and Anna W. Hubbard, and Mrs. Herbert S. Darlington. Soon after the end of the war, Hubbard resumed the practice of law in New York. He gave the law up in 1894 in order to devote more time to his numerous business interests, including management of the estate of railroad magnate Mark Hopkins. He was Vice President of the Southern Pacific Company between 1896 and 1900, President of the Mexican International Railroad between 1894 and 1901 and from 1901 to 1912 of the Guatemala 	Thomas Hamlin Hubbard
25300355	Central Railroad. From 1904 he was president of the International Banking Corporation (subsequently merged into the company now known as Citibank) and was a director of the American Light and Traction Company, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, National Bank of Commerce in New York, Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad Company, Wabash Railroad Company and the Western Union Telegraph Company. Hubbard was a philanthropist to many causes. Bowdoin College was a favorite object of his benefactions, and among the donations that remain are the splendid Hubbard Hall (designed by Henry Vaughan) and the fine grand stand which displays the motto, Fair  Play, and May the Best Man Win." A more enduring monument is Cape Thomas Hubbard, which, from the wind-swept coast of Grant Land, faces the North Pole across reaches of grinding pack-ice, over which Robert E. Peary, another Bowdoin man, carried the Stars and Stripes in 1909. Hubbard died in New York City on May 19, 1915. At the time of his death, he was commander-in-chief of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Thomas Hamlin Hubbard Thomas Hamlin Hubbard (December 20, 1838 – May 19, 1915) was a Union Army colonel from