MIDLANDER TRAINSHEET
The Midlander Trainsheet
The Midlander Trainsheet is the quarterly publication of the Society. The Midlander Trainsheet features articles and rare photos on the railroads we cover. A brief overview of each issue follows. Click on the image to buy any available back issues.
Volume 1, Number 1 – SOLD OUT!
Garret Hobart: President of Paterson’s own railroad, Delaware Valley Railroad, Railcars on the Blairstown Railway
Volume 1, Number 2 – SOLD OUT!
Wilkes Barre & Eastern: Part I, NYS&W in Stroudsburg, Greenwood Lake end of the New York & Greenwood Lake Railway
Volume 1, Number 3 – SOLD OUT!
Wilkes Barre & Eastern: Part II, All-time Middletown & New Jersey roster, Lehigh & Hudson River seeks freight business
Volume 1, Number 4 – SOLD OUT!
A look back at the L&HR by its last president, Detailing a Susquehanna RS-1, campaign train on the Middletown & New Jersey
Volume 2, Number 1 – SOLD OUT!
The last NYS&W steam locomotive, Bringing a Russian Decapod home, Extension on the NY&GL Orange Branch, NYS&W excursions from Stroudsburg
Volume 2, Number 2 – SOLD OUT!
Part I of a history of the Middletown, Unionville & Water Gap; To Coney Island by Rail; and a look at the NYS&W #200 at Edgewater
Volume 2, Number 3
Part II of a history of the Middletown, Unionville & Water Gap; Runaway on the Greenwood Lake line.
Volume 2, Number 4
“Excursions of Legend: Wilkes Barre & Eastern Fan Trips”; Hoboken Shore Railroad.
Volume 3, Number 1
Great fan trips of the 1930’s and 40’s; Ride the NYS&W; to Hainesburg Jct.
Volume 3, Number 2
Merger of the New York, Susquehanna & Western and New York, Ontario & Western?; Discontinuance of NYS&W; passenger trains to PRR’s Exchange Place
Volume 3, Number 3
Personal Reflections of the New Jersey & New York; Trip on the Lehigh & New England; Rockland Lake Inclined Railway
Volume 3, Number 4
Lehigh & New England’s Pochunck Branch
Volume 4, Number 1
Rahway Valley Number 13, Columbia Jct. on the NYS&W; Pennsylvania Railroad to Long Beach Island
Volume 4, Number 2
Erie’s Arlington Railroad; Unionville on the Middletown & Unionville; Night photo session at Little Ferry on the NYS&W
Volume 4, Number 3 and Number 4
Members received the revised version of The Next Station Will Be… Volume 1
Volume 5, Number 1
Lehigh & New England in New Jersey; tracing the South Mountain & Boston; Lehigh & Hudson River milk train; Allamuchy freight house
Volume 5, Number 2
Lehigh Valley’s Irvington Branch; L&HR Tower at Franklin; Before “Susie-Q” – “Suskie-Hanna”
Volume 5, Number 3
Erie’s Bergen Tunnel – Part 1; NYS&W’s Franklin Branch; 2000 Hike; Susie-Q’s Older Sister
Volume 5, Number 4
Erie’s Bergen Tunnel – Part 2; Death of a Railroad (End of Lehigh Valley passenger service)
Volume 6, Number 1
Midland of NJ’s Last Timetable; Passenger Service on the Erie’s Orange Branch; John Treen on the NYS&W Hanford Branch
Volume 6, Number 2
NYS&W In Stroudsburg, PA; Train Orders for the Phoebe Snow
Volume 6, Number 3
Newton and the Sussex Railroad; Named Trains to the Jersey Shore; Last Train from Midvale
Volume 6, Number 4
Susquehanna – Newly Independent (Part 1); Old Communipaw; Susquehanna Connecting in 2003
Volume 7, Number 1
Early Days Montclair & Greenwood Lake (Part 1); Susquehanna – Newly Independent (Part 2)
Volume 7, Number 2
Rockaway River & Montville; Early Days Montclair & Greenwood Lake (Part 2)
Volume 7, Number 3
Rockaway River & Montville Railroad; NYS&W’s Erie 2-8-0 Camelbacks
Volume 7, Number 4
Newark’s Separate Stations; The Erie’s Fairlie Experiment; Ogdenburg’s Backwards Tunnel
Volume 8, Number 1
The Lehigh and Hudson River Freight House at Allamuchy, New Jersey
Volume 8, Number 2
First Train from Caldwell, Last Train from Greenwood Lake; The Susquehanna Station That Never Was – Prospect Avenue Hackensack
Volume 8, Number 3
The Rise and Fall of Paterson City – Part 1, Leaner and Hungrier – No Hope for the Lehigh and Hudson River?
Volume 8, Number 4
The Rise and Fall of Paterson City – Part 2, Erie Railroad’s 100 ton Car Dumper
Volume 9, Number 1
Susquehanna Inspection Trip- May 9, 1941; The New York, Harlem & Lake Erie Railroad … A “What if” Story; Bellewood Park
Volume 9, Number 2
Rail-Industry Tour October 27, 1955 (Part One); 1961- A Derailment Prone Year for the Susquehanna
Volume 9, Number 3
Vignettes of a Railroad’s “Human Side”, Rail Industry Tour October 27, 1955 (Part 2)
Volume 9, Number 4
Irving Maidman Offers $1,000 if the Commuters Go Away; Handling Business at the New York Terminal- Erie Railroad
Volume 10, Number 1
Funicular Extraordinaire; The NYS&W Files for Bankruptcy; NYS&W to build River Street Newark, NJ Station
Volume 10, Number 2
Anthracite & the Susquehanna; Susquehanna Bankruptcy Chronicles Part 2; All About Anthracite by William Griffith
Volume 10, Number 3
Sterling Mountain and Its Mine Railway; The Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Problem; All About Anthracite by William Griffith Part 2 Section 1
Volume 10, Number 4
Sterling Mountain and Its Mine Railway Part Two; Debuting a Streamliner in Style; The Suffragettes “Bombing” of Rochelle Park
Volume 11, Number 1
Handling Business at New York Terminals – Erie Railroad, Trainwatching (Paterson, NJ) after School during World War II, A Susquehanna Photo Essay, Historical Articles from the Archives of The New Jersey Herald/Sussex Register/Sussex Independent
Volume 11, Number 2
Traveling Home for Thanksgiving by Train, A Photo Essay from Photographer John L. Treen, Historical Articles from the Archives of The New Jersey Herald/Sussex Register/Sussex Independent, Another Chapter in the History of the Susquehanna – January 1941, Along the Line – Bits and Pieces – Edgewater Tunnel Built 57 Years ago
Volume 11, Number 3
Iron, Thomas Edison and the Ogden Mine Railroad, Memories of a Very Short Line in New Jersey (NYS&W Passaic Branch), Historical Articles from the Archives of The New Jersey Herald/Sussex Register/Sussex Independent, Along the Line – Bits and Pieces – Lehigh & Hudson River Directors’ Inspection Trip
Volume 11, Number 4 
- DB Drawbridge Part 1
- John I. Blair and the Blairstown Railway Part 1
- Along the Line – Bits and Pieces: Lehigh & Hudson River
- Erie’s Facilities for Handling Coal
- A Photo Essay from John L. Treen
Volume 12, Number 1
- The Blairstown Railway (Part 2)
- DB Drawbridge – Machinery, Memories and Heritage (Part 2)
- Susquehanna Harbor Marine Fleet
Volume 12, Number 2
- The Blairstown Railway (Part 3)
- DB Drawbridge – Machinery, Memories and Heritage (Part 3)
Volume 12, Number 3
- DB Drawbridge – Machinery, Memories and Heritage (Part 4)
- Picnic Trains of the New York Susquehanna & Western