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February 16, 2016

Cool Story on Waldwick’s Historic Train Tower Restoration

Built in 1890, the tower played a role in Bergen County's development.
Chris Maag of The Record has a nifty story on the restoration of Waldwick's historic train station tower.

Here's the start:

"The NJ Transit locomotive slowly nosed into the little rail yard here at 3:15 p.m. Monday, pulling behind it six passenger cars with darkened windows.

"Its arrival was nothing special, except that it marked the quiet continuation of a tradition that started 126 years ago, back when the yard first made it possible to travel directly from Jersey City to Chicago, and Waldwick was a loose collection of wooden shacks."

The story is here. (Photo is by The Record's Amy Newman.)

By the way, Allendale and Waldwick train stations are mentioned in a famous poem by Mahwah's Joyce Kilmer, "The Twelve-forty-five."

Here's that part of the train poem …

We carry people home—and so
God speeds us, wheresoe’er we go.
Hohokus, Waldwick, Allendale
Lift sleepy heads to give us hail.

The link is here.

 

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