Tuckahoe Train Station, Mill Road & Railroad Avenue, Tuckahoe, NJ 08270. For GPS enter 31 Mill Road Woodbine.
Classic Trains, Classic Cars, Train rides, Motor Car rides, Garden Railway, Music, Food, and more.
Wristbands will be sold for $10 per adult; $5 per child.
Wristbands are for access to ride the Excursion Train, Speeder Car (Motor Car train) and tour the display Trains.
Proceeds from the sale of wristbands will benefit the Historical Preservation Society of Upper Township and the Volunteer Railroaders Association (VRA)
Festival Partnership:
Volunteer Railroader Association Inc. (VRA)vratrips.org
Close out #AnthraciteHeritageMonth by visiting a rare and unique piece of Lehigh Valley history on display now through the end of March! Visitors can check out this original Lehigh & New England Railroad car owned by Volunteer Railroaders. Located in the lobby of the National Museum of Industrial History, Bethlehem, PA 602 E 2nd St, Bethlehem, PA 18015 (610) 694-6644 info@nmih.org
This car was manufactured by Sheffield and is a model 40-B speeder, a car used to move crew members along the Lehigh & New England’s railroad lines. Sheffield/Fairbanks Morse motor cars were manufactured in Three Rivers, Michigan. By about 1910, the company was making Handcars and Rail Velocipedes. Sheffield moved to gas powered cars as time went by.
LNE RR 40-B motor car 549 before restoration picture.
Unfortunately, parties unknown stole the trailer that we use to bring the car to different events. We were very thankful the thief did NOT steal the motor car. Faced with a difficult decision, our small volunteer group chose to spend all the money we’d earned and saved for the restoration as well as take out a loan so that the car could be seen by the public.
The Seashore Lines will be operating short excursion trains in conjunction with the 4th Tuckahoe Transportation Heritage Festival on Saturday, September 25, 2021, from 11 am to 4 pm!
In addition to the short excursion train rides, a heritage train, consisting of former Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) equipment, will be open to the public.
The former Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) Blue Comet observation car Tempel will also be on display.
A Motor Car ‘train’ [see at top] will be operating short trips, and the Tuckahoe Railroad Station will be open to the public.
A ‘G’ gauge garden railroad will be operational in the station park, along with merchandise tables and a railroad hand car demonstration. Antique automobiles will also be on display.
Scouts will have the opportunity to earn their Railroad Merit Badge at this event!
Central Railroad of NJ Blue Comet observation Car Tempel & PRR Parlor car
PRR coaches with antique car in Tuckaho, New Jersey
Purchase wristbands
Wristband purchase is necessary to ride the short excursion train, the Motor Car ‘train’, and to enter the equipment on display.
Adult wristband pricing is $10.00, and children wristband pricing is $5.00. Wristbands can be purchased the day of the event at a table in the commons area.
Be certain to mark your calendars for this exciting event!
The Tuckahoe Village Train Station: Tuckahoe NJ Station, Cape May Seashore Lines Railroad is situated on Cape May County Routes 659 / Railroad Avenue and 557 / Mill Road, south of NJ State Route 49 and west of NJ State Route 50.
Mill Road and Railroad Avenue
Tuckahoe, NJ 08250
You may need to enter “31 Mill Road Woodbine, NJ” as the location in your GPS.
A huge thank you goes out to VRA member Toby Porterfield and Chris Bradley for getting the carbody back onto our very historic Lehigh and New England Sheffield/Fairbanks Morse 40B motorcar. Next step is to prep the car for a final paint job and reapplication of the L&NE fried egg logo.
Diamond Bridge Avenue in Hawthorne is getting rebuilt. I decided to stop by and see the progress and as I opened the drapes on the station I was greeted by our flags waving in the breeze and couldn’t resist taking a picture.
We put out our new American and POW/MIA flags tonight replacing the ones tattered during recent wind storms. Long may Old Glory wave and let us not forget those who never came home from war.
We are having a work day at the station tomorrow, May 29th, between 10am and 4pm. If you are interested in helping make the station look it’s best stop by, everyone is welcome.
Thanks to VRA members Toby, Chris and Steve we moved our very historic Lehigh and New England Sheffield 40B motor car from our long time friends at Star Trak in Boonton to our new motorcar base of operations in Rio Grande, NJ. Next step is to assemble the car body and then give it a final paint job and add the logos and numbers. Our goal is to have it completed this spring and out for public display and operations.
