Waterloo served as a transportation hub from 1760, when wagons carried pig iron from nearby Andover Furnace to the village’s iron forge. After the Morris Canal opened in 1831, horse-drawn wagons brought iron ore to the docks for loading onto canal boats. In the 1840s, mule-powered rail cars replaced the wagons. Later, steam railroads brought freight and passengers to Waterloo Station, and stage coaches carried people to the Waterloo Inn and beyond. In the twentieth century, motorized vehicles crossed the canal basin on an iron truss bridge whose abutments still remain visible.
