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Postcard of Caviar (Now Bayside) New Jersey. From the Rutger's University 1930 collection.
Partial Postcard of the Greenwich New Jersey Train Station. The Loper Family Collection.
Head-on impact. The locomotives are still producing steam from their boilers. Both locomotives were welded together by the force of the impact. From the Loper Family Collection.
Central Railroad of New Jersey box car 1139 hangs precariously over a completely smashed box car and the now erased cab of locomotive. From the Loper Family Collection.
The other locomotive's tender completely smashed beneath a flattened stock car and Central Railroad of New Jersey box car 1139. From the Loper Family Collection.
Locomotive 372's tender completely smashed beneath Main Central boxcar 63532. A crew ascertains both the locomotives damage. From the Loper Family Collection.
Another side view of 372. From the Loper Family Collection.
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey records. Electronically retrieved from Hagley Museum and Library: Collection: Central Railroad Company of New Jersey records | Hagley Museum and Library Archives
Estuary Enhancement Program PSENG. Electronically retrieved from website: untitled (pseg.com)
National Park Service. Electronically retrieved from Website: National Park Service: Southern New Jersey and the Delaware Bay (Chapter 3) (nps.gov)
Period Photographs and Postcard. Physically retrieved from the Loper Family Collection
Period notes on the wreck of 273 by a witness. Physically retrieved from the Loper Family Collection.
The Rutger's University 1930 Collection. Electronically retrieved.
Scribner's Monthly, August 1876. Physically retrieved from the Loper Family Collection.