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Friends of NJ Transportation Heritage Center

Preserving our Transportation Heritage: Railroads - Buses - Trucks - Canals - Trolleys - Ferries

Ann Miller, Director
178 So. Main Street
Phillipsburg, NJ 08865

Phone: (908) 246-6554
Email: NJTHC Information Center
Websites: www.NJTHC.org and www.URHS.org.


The New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center

A group of dedicated individuals has been working on this initiative for nearly twenty years. 1n 2001 Legislation to designate Phillipsburg as the primary location for the New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center was passed and signed into law.

The Heritage Center collections include 90 pieces of railroad rolling stock (25 of which are locomotives); 30 historic buses; a half dozen trucks; several trolley cars, and over two hundred truckloads of artifacts, archives, supplies, parts and equipment.

Rail equipment and bus vehicles are stored at locations all over our state. Phillipsburg storage areas total seven acres, four buildings, and seven trailers or containers. Heritage Center leaders are vigorously working on the acquisition of the needed lands for the Museum.

The Friends of the New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center is the booster organization for the State Museum and has over 500 members. They publish New Jersey Transport Heritage, a twelve page bulletin, six times per year, focusing on the progress and achievements of the Heritage Center as well as the transport history of our state. They have an annual open house in Phillipsburg and sponsor a Symposium at Drew University, Madison, NJ each Spring.

Phillipsburg Information Center

Open most weekends 10:30 am to 4:40 pm.

Visit the Information Center and Mini-museum in Phillipsburg Union Station with displays, dioramas, models, artifacts, exhibits and gifts of historic New Jersey railroad, trolley, bus, truck, canal and ferry transport.

The Visitor Center is open when the Delaware River Excursion Train operates. For more information call (908) 246-6554.

The Center's business mailing address is PO Box 147, Phillipsburg, NJ 08865-0147.

For more information click on our websites: : www.NJTHC.org and : www.URHS.o


The Phillipsburg Union Station

At the peak of the railroad era there were dozens of passenger and freight stations; roundhouses; turntables; interlocking towers; signal bridges; coal pockets and other structures in Phillipsburg.

The major remaining historic railway structure in town is the Phillipsburg Union Station at 178 South Main Street. It was built by the Lackawanna Railroad in 1914 and shared with the Central Railroad of New Jersey. It is currently occupied by the Friends of the New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center as a mini museum and information center. The building is also occupied by the Canal Society of New Jersey; Tri-State Railway Historical Society and Anthracite Railroads Historical Society.

A large model of the fixture New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center is on display. The station is within walking distance of the Bel-Del Lehigh Junction Station. Open hours and contact information are posted on the front door or check website:: www.NJTHC.org.