• Historic NJ RR Maps - Mercer & Somerset

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Pertaining to all railroading subjects, past and present, in New Jersey

Moderator: David

  by ChancellorOfTheExchequer
 
The Rutgers site has a great little collection of on-line railroad maps at the site listed below.

The 1876 map of New Jersey railroads seems to show that the bridge connection between Millstone and East Millstone was completed. The map was "Prepared from Official data by J.A. Anderson, Sup't. Belv. Div. Penn'a Rail Road," who ought to have known.

Also, I recently found that a book entitled "Track Design for Scale Model Railroading," by Hal Carstens and Bill Schopp (Penn Publications, 1960), included an article entitled "The Mercer & Somerset RR - Ready Track Layout," apparently originally published under the name "The Layout Doctor: Mercer & Somerset Railway" in Railroad Model Craftsman's October 1959 issue. (See second link.) Has anyone seen this article? It looks like the New York Public Library may have it.

http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/HISTORICALM ... roads.html

http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=I&MAG ... =4&YR=1960

  by choess
 
Looking over Bob Netzlof's bibliography of CT1000s and equivalents in the PRR-Talk archives, there's a "Form 89 C. R." from 1877 that should cover the Mercer & Somerset, also a "form number not known" in 1876 and 1880. I'm afraid I don't know where you'd find these, though.

"Triumph V" reproduces a map showing the M&S, including bridge from NRHS Bulletin, Fall 1978; a copy of that issue might tell you what you need to know. (The map also shows the proposed Newtown-Somerset line.) I know the NRHS has their library in Philadelphia; unfortunately, my sojourn here hasn't left me with enough time to visit or make copies of the valuation reports as I'd hoped.