Well Dad. Ah that doesn't sound right, Hey Swampy, Nice to meet you here. Here in Jersey we had the Rahway Valley Railroad basically going north and south. With the CNJ, LVRR PRR and Lackawana cutting through the middle going everywhere else this was a railroad in the right place at the right time. This railroad, the RVRR didn't have much in the way of scheduled passenger service and did away with it early in its history. What it did do was instead of a caboose on its rush hour freight trains is usually had a combine. This railroad was a small town rural railroad for most of its time. Very informal passenger service was available if you knew who to speak to. This railroad predated US RT22 so the town or should i say City of UNION NJ. was for a long time was graced with this short line stopping traffic on what became a major thoroughfare for residents and shoppers in the hiway stores on RT 22. This multiple daily show of the wonders of railroading was appreciated by few, and hated by many. Of the few times i was stopped If close enough I would get out to enjoy the show. I wasn't alone in this and the others were smiling and waving while many others beeped there horns and said thing that weren't very nice. They didn't know what they were seeing. This was the 1940's through 1960's. When they changed from steam to diesel power this railroad used only small 4 wheel and B-B trucked power to move its trains. Now all that I wrote was for this last line, Those little Witcomb diesels would have been at home on this railroad.
frank