Please consider joining Phillipsburg Railroad Historians as a volunteer, whatever your age, skill level, or experience.įor more information about Phillipsburg Railroad Historians, visit L. Free hot cocoa, coffee and snacks will be available along with gift bags for children. Wrapping up Phillipsburg Railroad Historian’s operating season, Santa will arrive in Caboose #18 and hold court on the museum platform, posing for pictures and accepting wish lists from the little ones. Saturday, December 3 (1 pm – 3 pm): SANTA TRAIN Saturday, October 29 (2 pm – 6 pm): PHILLIPSBURG FALL FESTIVAL & OLE TOWNE FESTIVAL ( ) Phillipsburg Railroad Historians Museum will be open and C&S train will operate. Saturday, October 8 (12 pm – 6 pm): PORK ROLL PALOOZA ( ) Phillipsburg Railroad Historians will operate a full Open House. Saturday, September 10 (10 am – 4 pm): PHILLIPSBURG RAILROAD FESTIVAL ( )Ĭelebrate 170 years of rail history in Phillipsburg at the first Phillipsburg Railroad Festival. Saturday, July 2 (10 am – 4 pm): SUMMER OPEN HOUSE Other PRRH events run concurrently with Phillipsburg’s town-wide festivities.į riday, June 17 (6 pm – 9 pm): EVENING TRAIN RIDE and NIGHT PHOTO SHOOTĮxperience a rare night-time ride on the Centerville & Southwestern Railroad during the waning hours of sunset! A photo session will follow at 8 pm, with the C&S train posed at various locations around the property, lighting provided. Volunteers will enthusiastically answer any and all questions. The carshop, as well as the museum and gift shop, will be open, and the Centerville and Southwestern miniature train will run. Below, conductor Michael Lechicky leads the miniature train.Ī few more Open Houses are on tap for 2022. Please come visit and get a close-up look at railroading the way we offer it.” Photos by Cathy Miller, at top, conductor John Boner signals tht the coast is clear. We have an ambitious schedule planned for this year. Twenty-two volunteers showed up to man their positions and make our 2022 Spring Open House a resounding success. Of the Open House, Paul Carpenito, President, PRRH, said, “The Phillipsburg Railroad Historians have leaped out of the Covid seclusion with renewed zeal and determination to get the railroad rolling again. Despite some early morning drizzle and overall gray skies, there was a big turnout. The PRRH’s first full Open House of the season took place on Saturday, May 14. With seven small open-air cars, an engine, and a caboose, it’s referred to as Phillipsburg’s authentic “mainline in miniature,” and is great fun to ride for both children and adults.Īfter nearly two years of pandemic disruption, the Phillipsburg Railroad Historians are excitedly anticipating a full season of special events. The trains are conducted with full hand signals and rules designed after prototype railroad practice. They operate the historic Centerville & Southwestern miniature railroad, a 2” scale railroad originally created on the Becker Dairy Farm in Roseland, NJ in 1938. L&HR #105, a wood-bodied flanger car built in the 1870’s, is their current restoration project – and believed to be the oldest piece of railroad rolling stock in New Jersey. Their most recent restoration was Lehigh & Hudson River Railroad caboose #18, which took three members nine years to complete. They maintain a collection of full-sized railroad artifacts significant to local railroad industry. PRRH, located at 10 Pine Alley, is a non-profit, all-volunteer group of rail-interested folks whose mission is to preserve the rich railroad history of the Phillipsburg area. An active railroad regularly rumbles by, close enough to wave to the engineer and get a blow of the whistle in return. Sitting on about four acres of property leased from the Town of Phillipsburg, the site has a large parking area, a shady picnic grove, a carshop for equipment, restorations and repairs, a museum and gift shop, and a miniature railroad. Tucked behind Noto-Wynkoop Funeral Home on South Main Street sits the gem known as the Phillipsburg Railroad Historians Museum. The heart of Phillipsburg houses a railway museum devoted to local rail history, featuring an impressive range of exhibits and restored locomotives.
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