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Phillipsburg Railroad Historians Homepage is located in Phillipsburg, NJ.

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Phillipsburg Railroad Historians Homepage

Phillipsburg, NJ

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About Phillipsburg Railroad Historians Homepage

PRRH Index Phillipsburg Railroad Historians A 501-c-3 non-profit A MAJOR MILESTONE REACHED After many decades of being stored in multiple locations, the last of our Centerville and Southwestern rolling stock can soon be moved to our new secure building next to the carshop!

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History

The Phillipsburg Railroad Historians, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, run a railroad museum in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, a Delaware River town still threaded by former Lehigh Valley Railroad trackage and the route of the old Belvidere-Delaware branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The group is best known as keeper of the Centerville & Southwestern, the beloved 9 7/16-inch gauge miniature railroad that dairy farmer Eugene Becker began building on his Roseland, New Jersey farm in 1938 and opened to revenue riders a decade later. After Interstate 280 took part of its route and a 1972 tax reassessment doomed the farm, the C&S made its final run that Labor Day; the dismantled railroad passed through Middletown Township before landing in Phillipsburg, where ambitions to anchor a New Jersey State Railroad and Transportation Museum faded when the needed 35-acre parcel went to development. The Historians revived a truncated stretch of the line, and after decades of split storage the last of the C&S rolling stock is set to move into a new secure building beside the group's carshop.

The Trains

The museum grounds display two Lehigh and Hudson River cabooses — one under active restoration — alongside a Jersey Central caboose, an L&HR snow flanger, a Tidewater tank car, a CNJ box car owned by the Anthracite Railroads Historical Society, a 1922 Chestnut Ridge Mack railbus belonging to the Lehigh Valley NRHS, a Public Service trolley from the North Jersey Electric Railway Historical Society, and GE 44-ton and 25-ton locomotives, plus railroad memorabilia and an N scale diorama inside the museum. The operating centerpiece is the Centerville & Southwestern miniature railroad: single-cab diesel No. 1503, built in 1959, hauls passengers about 1,500 feet during the warmer months in some of the original C&S passenger cars from the Becker farm operation.