Rob,
Perhaps on some financial documents at this museum. The RR hauled his product as a main customer.
The hermitage Museum
it may have been just a holding company. This annual report of 1888 to the State of New jersey, starting p.183, lists it as being leased, equipped and operated by the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company.
Check out how many injuries there were...sheesh!
if they had a herald, it may not have ever been on an engine. Perhaps for a few years... I read their original engine was built in Paterson.