Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1910 — AN APOLOGY FOR A RAILROAD [ARTICLE]

AN APOLOGY FOR A RAILROAD

This One Has Ail the Advantages of a Trolley and Is More Dignified. What if the train on the Morristown and Erie railroad does stop between stations to let off and pick up passengers who otherwise might have to walk? To President R. W. McEwan of the road this custom is no subject for levity. He points to it as one of the valuable privileges of living along the railroad which connects the towns of Caldwell and Essex Falls, N. J„ with the Erie railroad at Morristown. In a statement Mr. McEwan says the McEwan family promoted 'the road. “Its right of way has all been paid for in cash,” he declares. ‘lt has not been sold, out by the sheriff; no security holder has been squeezed out nor has the public subscribed or donated anything to it I do not want the outside public to think that I run It like the Morris canal.” Mr. McEwan says that the one small locomotive used by the road is as fine a piece of machinery as runs on rails. It burns furnace size anthracite coal, carries 180 pounds of steam and starts and stops as quickly as an electric car, he says. The road’s one passenger coach, the butt of many jokes, s is defended by President McEwan, it was built before the Civil war, but Mr. McEwan says it is safe, strong and clean and is inspected regularly by state officers. , In reference to the stops between stations Mr. McEwan says: “On many trips we make stops between stations to accommodate those having long walks to the train. This causes little or no delay with the small, light engine and car and would be impossible with a long, heavy train.”