Views: 1,090 Stations in the News Railroad service into the Somerset Hills began in 1872 when the Passaic Valley and Peapack Railroad opened a new line running west from Summit into northern Somerset County. The original route established stations at… Read More »Looking Back at Train Stations Along the Peapack Gladstone Line
Views: 629 History says the subscriber list is lost, so Mr. Local History is trying to rebuild it. We wanted to begin this addition to our Somerset Hills train history series with the story behind what became widely known as… Read More »Millionaires Express Elegant Commuting – Who Was On That Exclusive Subscriber List
Views: 396 As our researchers investigated the history of the Millionaires Express story, we found several articles about a terrible rail accident involving the Millionaires Express on June 5, 1908. We’re sharing a few stories/articles from the era and are… Read More »Historic Train Accidents on the Peapack Gladstone Line