Trivia
- The original name of Roseland, New Jersey was Centreville, a section of Livingston, New Jersey. In 1874, a post office was built, which first carried the name Roseland (a possible derivation of Roselyn). The name Centreville (note spelling) had been changed because it conflicted with the town of the same name in Hunterdon County. Roseland officially incorporated (and separated from Livingston, New Jersey) in 1908.
- The 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) Becker dairy farm, established in 1880, encompassed nearly 50% of Roseland's total acreage.
- The C&S operation was modelled after the DL&W's Sussex Branch and had several equivalents to the full-scale railroad: Peachtree Jct. (Branchville Jct.), Centerville station (Netcong station), Centerville yard (Port Morris yard), Pigpen grade (Andover grade); the block signals were also similar, as were the speed restriction signs used by the C&S RR, which were similar to those used by the Lackawanna Railroad.
- Peachtree Jct. was named after an orchard of peach trees that originally grew there.
- DL&W locomotive #1501, a Pocono-type (4-8-4), was scrapped by the Lackawanna in 1949, the same year that C&S locomotive #1501 (same wheel configuration) was built.
- The use of switch locomotive #1500 restricted the train to fewer passenger cars and sometimes required the train to be backed as far as possible into Centerville yard so that a run for Pigpen Grade could be made.
- Centerville yard continued back into a building (equivalent to a roundhouse) that allowed winter storage of all of the C&S rolling stock.
- Typically, the signal at Peachtree Jct. displayed an "approach" (yellow) aspect. The block signal system was fully operational and provided three-block protection (red-yellow-green). Signals protected the entire line from Centerville yard to Peachtree Jct. Crossbucks and flashing lights protected the two grade crossings, with gates also in operation at the station's grade crossing.
- Becker Farm often conducted school tours of the farm on Wednesdays and which would include a trip on the C&S.
- The Centerville and Southwestern really did travel in a southwesterly direction from "Centerville".
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