Rahway Valley No. 4

No. 4. (Thomas T. Taber III Collection)
No. 4 appeared in this postcard view of the Rahway Valley's long trestle through Summit, later filled in. (Richard J. King Collection)

Type: 2-6-0 Mogul

Builder: Dickson Manufacturing Co., Scranton, PA

Built: 1869

Construction No.: 45

Previous Owner(s): Lackawanna & Bloomsburg Railroad No. 23, named "William E. Dodge"; Utica Chenango & Susquehanna Valley Railroad (DL&W - Utica Division) No. 15; Morris & Essex Division (DL&W) No. 92, renumbered No. 220.

Acquired From: Fitzhugh-Luther Company

Acquired Date: August 1905

Purchase Price:  Unknown

Disposition: Retired in 1910 or 1911. Scrapped about 1913.

Notes: Shortly after purchase,  discovered to be a piece of junk “ready to blow up.” The Fitzhugh people never made good on it and an order for a second locomotive was cancelled. Noted as out of service in 1908, in need of flues and the boiler was in rough shape.