Re: (erielack) Fwd: New Jersey Live Steam Question

["Steven W.kay" <stevekay_@_mtlakes.csnet.net>]

"Gary R. Kazin" wrote:

> There were two small-scale operations here:
>
> Centerville & Southeastern, at the Becker Dairy Farm, now an office park
> off I-280 exit 5.  Equipment is now in Phillipsburg and runs on weekends.
>
> Bertrand Island, amusement park on the east side of Lake Hopatcong.
>
> Both made it into the 1970's but not the 1980's.
>
> --- Robert Dobrowolski <el_railfan_@_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Received this question on another email list.  Anybody
> > able to help out?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bob Dobrowolski
> >
> > --- Marty Harrison <mharriso_@_iland.net> wrote:
> > > Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:39:11 -0500
> > > To: livesteamers_@_uwimona.edu.jm
> > > From: Marty Harrison <mharriso_@_iland.net>
> > > Subject: New Jersey Live Steam Question
> > > Reply-to: livesteamers_@_uwimona.edu.jm
> > >
> > > To the List:
> > >
> > > More than 40 years ago, somewhere in northern part
> > > of New Jersey (I think), a small model train shop
> > > also included a live steam operation (maybe 12 inch
> > > gauge).  I have a very faint memory but do remember
> > > my granddad taking me over to the operation.  Might
> > > have been somewhere in the Dover area as my granddad
> > > had a summer house at Lake Shawnee and I was visting
> > > during the summer.
> > >
> > > Can anybody help oput and does the railroad still
> > > exist?
>
> =====
> Gary R. Kazin
> DL&W Milepost R35.7
> Rockaway, New Jersey
>
> New Jersey Transit - THE WAY TO GO!!!
>
> (I have no affiliation with New Jersey Transit.)

Did Rich's Hobbytown have a live steam operation? They had about everything else!

Steve


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