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===Railway=== A tourist railroad known as the Belvidere & Delaware River Railroad operates on the former [[Belvidere-Delaware Railroad]] [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] Branch serving excursions from Lehigh Junction Station south to [[Carpentersville, New Jersey|Carpentersville]]. [[Norfolk Southern]] serves the industrial manufacturing purposes in Phillipsburg using former LVRR tracks and the L&HR bridge to connect with the Bel-Del PRR tracks. Since 2007, [[NJ Transit]] has been conducting a study to determine if re-establishing a commuter rail extension of the [[Raritan Valley Line]] to Phillipsburg is economically feasible.<ref>Staff. [http://www.nj.com/warrenreporter/index.ssf/2011/04/extending_raritan_valley_railr.html "Extending Raritan Valley railroad service to Phillipsburg will be discussed"], ''Warren Reporter'', April 26, 2011. Accessed June 13, 2013.</ref> Phillipsburg also is home to the Phillipsburg Railroad Historians museum. They display railroad memorabilia inside the museum, an "N" scale diorama, two Lehigh and Hudson River cabooses, one of which is currently being restored, and a Jersey Central caboose. There is an L&HR snow flanger, Tidewater tank car, a CNJ box car owned by the Anthracite Railroads Historical Society, a 1922 Chestnut Ridge Mack railbus owned by the Lehigh Valley NRHS, a Public Service trolley owned by the North Jersey Electric Railway Historical Society, a 44-ton GE locomotive and a 25-ton GE locomotive.<ref>[http://www.prrh.org/history.html About us], Phillipsburg Railroad Historians. Accessed June 13, 2013.</ref> They operate a miniature railroad, the Centerville & Southwestern, that formerly ran in [[Roseland, New Jersey]].<ref>Jackson, Kirk Beldon. {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20130201050228/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/mcall/access/92054977.html?dids=92054977:92054977&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+26,+1992&author=KIRK+BELDON+JACKSON,+The+Morning+Call&pub=Morning+Call&desc=AT+P'BURG+FEST,+TRAIN+IS+TOPS&pqatl=google "At P'burg Fest, Train Is Tops"]}}, ''[[The Morning Call]]'', July 26, 1992. Accessed June 14, 2012.</ref>
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