A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. No exclusive subscription required.
For 1 day only, ordinary passengers were invited aboard the legendary Millionaires Express, the famed Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad club car that once carried the wealthy residents of Bernardsville Mountain and the Somerset Hills between Gladstone and Hoboken in the height of railroad luxury.
On May 17, 2026, the Whippany Railway Museum brought that vanished era roaring back to life. Visitors stepped aboard the only restored surviving car from the actual train system that served America’s Gilded Age elite, offering a rare glimpse into the refined world experienced by a privileged few from the early 1900s through the final years of luxury commuter rail service in the 1970s. For a brief moment, history was no longer something read about in books or seen in faded photographs. It could be touched, heard, and experienced from the polished wicker chairs and gleaming wood interiors of the very train cars that once carried the Bernardsville Mountain millionaires themselves.
Read more about the history of the train and the people who built and ran on the Millionaires Express. We have subscriber lists and millionaire profiles, as well as the history of how the railway reached Bernardsville and ultimately Gladstone on what’s known today as the Peapack-Gladstone rail line.
