Here's a Spoonful of Greetings Central NJ Railroad Co.

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Here's a Spoonful 1529 1849 C.N.J. - 1974 125th Anniversary Year of Greetings

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COMMEMORATIVE SOUVENIR SPOON SERIES NO. 4-C2-1 1849 C.N.J. - 1974 125th Anniversary Year View shows Engine 1529 in the new paint scheme. A Brief History of the Central Railroad Co. of N.J. Its predecessor companies go back some 143 years to the Elizabethtown & Somerville Rail- Iway Co., incorporated in 1831. It is one of the oldest railroads in the U.S. Was the first rail- road to furnish regulation uniforms to passen- ger conductors in 1872. First to operate fully automatic semaphore signals in U.S. in 1893. First Railroad to operate a diesel-electric loco- motive in 1925. First to use T.V. as an Indus- trial Application. Its Newark Bay Draw Bridge is one & two fifths miles long. Believed to be the longest of its type in the world. Has the largest Piggyback Terminal in the Port Newark Complex. Photo & Art Work by Mike Boyar Copyrighted 1974 Mike Boyar Collectors: For complete check list of Souvenir Spoon Cards, send $1.00 to Publisher. Pub. by Mike Boyar, P.O. Box 508, Bound Brook, N.J. 08805 51395