New Jersey and New York Extension Railroad stock certificate c1886 (New York) 

Nice offset vignette of steam train pulling into a station in a small town. Unissued and not cancelled. Circa 1886 from company records. Dated 188_ on the certificate. Approximately 11.5 x 8 inches.

The New Jersey and New York Extension was incorporated June 2, 1886, under the general laws of New York, for the purpose of constructing a railroad from a connection with the road of the New Jersey and New York Railroad to Haverstraw, NY.

The New Jersey and New York Railroad (NJ&NY) was a railroad company that operated north from Rutherford, New Jersey, to Haverstraw, New York beginning in the mid-to-late 19th century.

The line was originally chartered as the Hackensack and New York Railroad (H&NY) in 1856. The H&NY would eventually run from Rutherford to Hackensack, New Jersey. In 1866 under the leadership of David P. Patterson the company was chartered as the Hackensack and New York Extension Railroad and it extended its line north of Hackensack. It later reorganized as the New Jersey and New York Railroad. The line reached the town of Hillsdale, New Jersey, by 1870, the village of West Haverstraw by 1873, and the village of Haverstraw by 1887.

The NJ&NY was leased for 99 years by the Erie Railroad in 1896. The NJ&NY continued to exist as an Erie subsidiary until the 1960 merger that created the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. In 1976, the Erie Lackawanna was merged with several other railroads to create Conrail. In 1983, after several years under operation by Conrail, operations of the Pascack Valley Line were transferred to New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. The segments of the two former railroad lines in New York – north of Spring Valley to Haverstraw and north of Nanuet to New City – are no longer in service.

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