User talk:Prrtrainman

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I'm leaving you this welcome message because I saw your work on Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad. I have to admit, I question the assertion that the bridge across the Millstone River was never finished. All of the official reports to the State of New Jersey indicate that the Mercer and Somerset reached East Millstone, implying the completion of a bridge, and so does this PRR publication. Judging from the published schedule, it looks like no official through service was run across the bridge, but judging from the times of arrival and departure on the two branches, it looks as though trains may have run through between Millstone and East Millstone. I suspect the assertion that the bridge was never finished came from Henry Charlton Beck's "The Roads of Home" (1956), where he says "As far as Spencer was able to determine, the two were never joined physically..." However, in "The New Jersey Midlands" (1962), "It seemed now that the abandoned banks we saw were once completed for bridges and that trains actually ran across them to Millstone." It may be that the former statement and not the latter made its way into the Arcadia book (they're nice, but not always well-checked). Choess (talk) 22:12, 11 October 2011 (UTC)