Farmingdale and Squan Village Railroad

[1] During its service life, the primary economic advantage provided by the F&SV was to move farm produce and seafood products from the fertile central Jersey coast to major rail corridors providing direct lines to Philadelphia (P&NYRR) and New York (NJ Southern RR).

The Allaire works was an innovator in iron casting and produced propellers and steam engine parts for some of the largest steamships of the period.

When the F&SV was under control by the New York and Long Branch Railroad in 1875, service was provided to the following locales:[2] located in the vicinity of Rocky Hill.

It was a single track railroad extending from Trenton, and generally followed the winding contour of the Delaware and Raritan Canal to Princeton and Rocky hill, then east to Monmouth Junction.

In 1875, S. Leonard Thurlow owned all of Sea Girt and occupied the Mansion House of the late commodore Richard Stockton.

What is interesting is that there is no "junction" or "SG" interlocking at this time; the CNJ did not yet continue south of the curve connecting to the Freehold & Farmingdale.

The remainder of the CNJ past Main Street Manasquan south through Brielle, Point Pleasant and Bay Head was not yet constructed in 1873.