This cache is hidden in the area of the Netcong Train Station. The current Netcong station was built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's main line in 1901 as the main station to Netcong and nearby Stanhope. The brick design of the station was built with bricks from nearby Port Murray, New Jersey.
The station served as the junction of the Sussex Branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western as well, serving towns through Sussex County including Branchville, Newton and Lafayette. Passenger railroad service on the Sussex Branch ended in October 1966, when the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, the successor to the Lackawanna, cut service on many passenger branches. In 1979, the line was torn up and handed over to the New Jersey State Park Department. Prior to 1994, New Jersey Transit's service on the then-Boonton Line terminated at Netcong. However, in late 1994, service was extended along the Norfolk Southern owned tracks to Mount Olive and Hackettstown, which became the permanent western terminus of the line.
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