Locomotive Roster

Middletown and Unionville R.R. Middletown and New Jersey R.R.
Compiled by Raymond Brown and Carl Detwyler
from official M&U and M&NJ records and other sources


 

Steam Locomotives

 no.

 type

 bldr

 date

 dr.

 cycls

 wght.

 TE

 BP

 C/N

 note

 1

 4-4-0

 Pitts.

 1895

76

 19x26

126000

 20995

 200

 2274

 1

 2

 2-6-0

 Rome

 1890

 62

 19x24

 128000

 20800

 175

 565

 2

 2nd 2

 4-6-0c

 Bald

 1907

 64

 21x26

 132000

 25200

 200

 30268

 3

 3

 4-6-0c

 Bald

 1907

 64

 21x26

 132000

 25000

 200

 31550

 4

 4

 4-6-0c

 Bald

 1907

 64

 21x26

 132000

 25000

 200

 31552

 5

 5

 2-6-0

 Bald

 1920

 51

 20x26

 153200

 32860

 200

 53947

 6

 6

 4-4-0

 Cooke

 1908

 68

 18x28

 142000

 20100

 200

 44801

 7

 7

 2-8-0

Rd.Isl.

 1902

 50

 20x26

 162300

 26593

 175

 26868

 8

 11

  2-6-0

 Cooke

 1920

 50

 18x24

 111000

 23800

 180

 62635

 9

 103

 2-6-2

 Bald

 1925

 44

 15x20

 89000

 16500

 200

 58754

 10

 2451

 2-10-0

 Bald

 1918

 52

 25x28

 197000

 51500

 180

 48244

 11

 2461

 2-10-0

 Brooks

 1918

 52

 25x28

 197000

 51500

 180

 58904

 12

Notes
1. Purchased 1913, ex P&LE (NYC) 9257, ex P&LE 93 - sold 11/1/24
2. purchased 7/30/17, ex NYO&W 109, sold 9/26/17 to Zelnicker Supply Co. resold to St. Joseph Valley #129.
3. purchased 10/1/22, ex L&HR 2nd #23 - sold 12/31/30, scrapped 1934.
4. purchased 9/1/24, ex L&HR #33 - sold 12/1/27,scrapped 1933.
5. purchased 9/1/27, ex L&HR #32 - sold 12/31/30, scrapped 1934.
6. purchased 12/31/30, ex Mt. Hope Mineral RR #4, sold 11/35 to West Pittston and Exeter #5, scrapped 1952
7. purchased 7/24/35, ex O&W #24 - sold 7/1/40, scrapped 1940
8. 7/1/40, ex Belfonte Central #16, ex DT&I #76, ex Detroit Southern #76, out of service 4/23/44, sold to Bethlehem Steel for scrap
9. purchased 1985, built 1920 for Cuban Sugar RR, not delivered, 1923 sold to Narragansett Pier RR - # 11, to Bath and Hammondsport RR # 11, to Sandy Pond and Ontario RR #11, back to Bath and Hammondsport RR #11, to M&NJ #11, currently stored out of service in Middletown enginehouse, requires a class 3 overhaul.
10. Leased 1962 from Empire State Railroad Museum, ex Sumpter and Choctaw #103, to Valley RR in Conn. 1965.
11. built 4/18, Erie #2451, sold to NYS&W 2/15/43, leased to M&U 1944.
12. built 3/18, Erie #2461, sold to NYS&W 2/15/43, leased to M&U 1944.


Diesel Locomotives

 No.

 HP

 BLDR

 MODEL

 WHLS

 ST.TE.

 WT

 DATE

 C/N

 NOTE

1

 380

 G.E.

 44 TON

 B-B

 26400

 89000

 4/1946

 28487

 1

2

 380

 G.E.

 44 TON

 B-B

 26400

 89000

 2/1947

 28342

 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  RBLT

 7/1956

1. purchased by M&U served feed dealers Manning, Simmons and Clark, leased to M&U RR, became M&NJ #1, to Vermont RR #1, back to M&NJ.
2. purchased 1963, ex American Cyanamid #5.


Rail Cars

 NO

 BLDR

 DATE

 C/N

 ENGINE

 BODY

 NOTES

 ?
(Above Photo)

 Wooster

 1919

 ?

 Reo 35 hp

 20 pass. 4 wheel 
front truck

 1

 ?

 Wooster

 3/1921

 ?

 Reo 35 hp

 15 pass.

 2

 ?

 Wooster

 3/1921

 ?

 Reo 35 hp

 27 pass.

 3

 ?

 Wooster

 12/1922

 ?

 Hinkly 58 hp

 31 pass.

 4

 M55

 Brill

 1925

 22472

 Hall Scott 68 hp

 43 pass.

 5  Graphics/Grammbernstein.jpg 

M-1

 Brill

 1923

 ?

Continental 140 hp

 Baggage

 6  Graphics/empirebrill.jpg 

1. 4 wheels, sold to Birmingham and Southeastern.
2. 4 wheel front truck, traded to Brill 1926
3. 4 wheel front truck, wrecked in a collision at Dolson Ave., traded to Wooster for Gramm-Bernstein 1922.
4. Gramm-Bernstein chassis, traded to Brill 10/1/26
5. Purchased 9/20/26, ex Brill demonstrator, retired 1940, sold to Georgia Southern 8/44.
6. Leased from Empire State Railroad Museum, ex Brill demonstrator, to Sperry Rail
Service. Sperry fitted it for rail testing, watertanks on roof resemble a clerestory. Sold to Remington Arms Co., and rebuilt to baggage configuration with dual controls for moving ammunition around the plant.