The subsidiary lines of the corporation are based in the history of railroading in Northern New Jersey and New York's Hudson River Valley.

The Northern Valley, Knickerbocker, & Eastern Railway is a freelance shortline, modeled in part on the New York Central's West Shore Division. It is conceived as a New York Central successor line set in the present day.

It's design, with passing sidings, yard and team tracks, allows for multiple train operation.  The NVK&E is connected with CSX's River Line at an unseen location.

Conrail (Shared Assets) OINV is often seen on the River Line waiting clearance to cross over onto the NVK&E at KX Tower (Knickerbocker Interchange). This switching local usually has a string of cars to be set-out on the NVK&E prior to picking up empties.

The NVK&E is maintained as a showcase for the equipment collection of its owner and COO, Nick Ariemma. The equipment on the property varies regularly to meet the needs of on-line shippers and railfans alike. The layout is designed so that many moveable accessories (cars, signs, etc.) can be "set" to represent a number of different eras.

Things change each month, as alternating parts of the Chief Operating Officer's collection arrive on the property.

It's fun. The Railway runs what it owns, maintains its own equipment, and even has the neighborhood kids in once and awhile for an operating session (and obligatory history lesson).

The New York, West Shore, and Buffalo Railroad was created in 1882 to build a line from Weehawken, NJ to Buffalo, NY. The name was derived from the location of the initial right of way on the West Shore of the Hudson River.

The West Shore reached Buffalo around 1884.

In 1885 the West Shore was reorganized as the West Shore Railroad, a wholly owned subsidiary of the New York Central lines. It operated in this capacity until 1952 when the West Shore was formally merged into the New York Central.

Quite a bit of the old West Shore still exists today and is used by CSX as the mainline freight corridor into the New York metro area. CSX is the successor to Conrail, Penn-Central and the New York Central. Pieces of the West Shore in central New York exist as either bypasses or connections to the NYC's "Water Level Route" to Chicago. The West Shore's East Buffalo Yard is now a part of CSX's Frontier Yard.

The West Shore runs in the family! Will Collins (Nick's maternal Grandfather) and his Fireman John Barry pose with their Atlantic in Newburgh, NY yards.

Three generations of this family have worked for "The Central", ending with Nick's Gandy Dancing during that last Summer prior to the PC merger.