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Sussex County Historical Society - NJ
Sussex County County Historical Society, Hill Museum
82 Main Street
Newton, NJ 07860
973-383-6010
http://www.sussexhistory.org/
Just when you think you have seen everything Reading, you find something new! Here is a picture from the 1930s, showing how boxcars were unloaded, when they were filled with grain. Not in sacks, nor bundles nor drums, but raw almost powdered form put right into the boxcar itself!![]()
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I wouldn't have believed it, unless I saw it for my own eye. And here is the picture proof. An apparatus that turns and shakes The Boxcar so that everything falls out. This particular industry could do two cars at once!![]()
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Also, you might even argue that this is the first known picture of the Reading and Lehigh Railroad, N scale , since the other car is Lehigh Valley! Haha
Sharing some pictures of our fundraising dinner November 1st...held at the Sterling Hill Mine....enjoy!
It's beginning to look like Christmas at the Hill Memorial Museum! Hoping you will join us on Dec. 5th for our Open House - 5-7 pm.