 The railroad dated back to 1938, with the first revenue trips taking place ten years later.The railroad was modeled after the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Sussex Branch, on which Becker had a creamery at Straders, New Jersey, near the end of the line at Branchville, NJ (about 35 miles (56 km) away from Roseland as the crow flies).After World War II, the C&S RR was extended to Peachtree Jct., approximately one mile from Centerville Station.