The museum is home to several vintage pieces of rolling stock, many of them linked to the Pennsylvania anthracite coal industry and the iron mining industry in New Jersey. The railroads were built, in large part, to haul coal and iron from Pennsylvania to New York, and nearly every river and every town in the region played an important part in that traffic.
The museum also houses elaborate model railroads, and displays several pieces of ancillary railroad equipment, like signals and a huge water tank. However, unless good fortune intervenes, you may soon make that jughandle and notice that the old trains are gone.
That's because the museum's public contributions have reached a year low, and it lives on its public contributions. According to information on its website and voicemail message, the museum will offer its Easter Bunny Express excursion rides on April 12, 13, and 19, and then close until the fall. Then it may, or may not, re-open. However, there is a real railroad on the Whippany, based in Hanover Township. After a shaky start, the railroad was acquired by new owners near the turn of the century, expanded, and by had begun regular passenger and freight service between Jersey City and Morristown.
The passenger service ended in , but freight service staggered on, despite the Depression, the shift from coal to oil for heating, and inroads of trucking. In , the line went bankrupt. In , still operating, it was acquired by its present owners -- Benjamin J. Today, the railroad switches tank cars and hauls freight for local businesses. Perhaps the most astonishing thing about the Whippany River or, for that matter, any river in New Jersey is not that it's abused, but that it continues to live.
Consider fish. Trout, the Whippany certainly has. The best sites, reportedly, are just below the dams at Sunrise Lake and Speedwell Lake, but the river's upper reaches are full of small rapids and quiet pools where trout gather.
The Troy Meadows, where so much of the Whippany's bad news settles in, teems with wildlife, nonetheless. The Troy Meadows' swampy areas are a favorite habitat for wood ducks, for example.
In addition, bog turtles, relatively rare in other parts of the state, are common in Troy Meadows. They require swampy land and a slow-moving river moving through. In its upper reaches, the river flows through hardwood forests. In the Troy Meadows, you can find a naturalist's candy store of tree species: white ash, red ash, swamp white oak, black walnut, red cedar, sweetgum, and many others.
Read current newsletter. Privacy Statement. Toggle navigation New Jersey's Great Northwest! The Patriots Path crosses the river near Mendham Road. The river flows through Morristown at Center Street. Troy Meadows. The Whippany meets the Rockaway River.
Stay in the Loop! Read current newsletter Privacy Statement Email Address:. Whippenny Township—or Hanover Township, as it came to be called—is the predecessor of all 39 municipalities of Morris County. Originally approximately square miles during colonial times, Hanover has been whittled down to its present size of Whippany, as it is now called, is a district within the Township of Hanover with a land area of 6. The district of Cedar Knolls has a land area of 3.
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