Rahway Valley No. 4
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.