A number of the N E American Railroads could not afford the engineering costs of taking their tracks into New York. The Lackawanna and the Eire (They later merged) had rail terminals in Jersey City and the operated a network of double-ended steam ferries across the Hudson to landing stages in New York.
Maplewood was one of the Lackawanna fleet. Morning coffee and hot doughnuts served on the upper deck for the morning commuters.
