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The railroad line was abandoned after 1964. [16] In 1966, the New Jersey Board of Public Utility Commissioners (PUC) approved the sale of a 2.8-mile long (4.5 km) portion of the former railroad's right-of-way to Jersey Central Power & Light Company. [17] [16] In 1976, Conrail took over the
The Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project is a New Jersey Transit and Amtrak effort to restore passenger service to the Lackawanna Cut-Off in northwest New Jersey.. Started in 2011, Phase 1 of the project is extending NJ Transit's commuter rail service 7.3 miles (11.7 km) from Port Morris Junction in Morris County to Andover in Sussex County, with the latter seeing its first passenger trains ...
Various projects have been proposed for the abandoned track bed: for a four-lane or six-lane highway that would connect the New Jersey Turnpike and U.S. Route 1/9 bypassing traffic headed along New Jersey Route 139 for the Holland Tunnel, [4] extension of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail, or in conjunction with the Harsimus Stem Embankment, a recreational greenway.
The state purchased the former railroad line property in 2022. When complete, the Essex-Hudson Greenway will become a 9-mile, 135-acre linear park. Essex-Hudson Greenway breaks ground soon.
The railroad bought the Beacon Line right-of-way in 1995 for nearly $4.5 million and once considered using it as an east-west link for its Hudson and Harlem lines.
If future economic conditions warrant resuming operation, NJT reserves the right to restore rail service at any time. The railroad line was never officially abandoned, unlike most rail trails. The Henry Hudson Trail was the first rail-trail developed in Monmouth County, and was joined by the Union Transportation rail-trail in 2010.
Pennsylvania and New England Railroad; Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Railroad; Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston Railroad; Pennsylvania Railroad; Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines; Pennsylvania, Slatington and New England Railroad; Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad; Pequest and Wallkill Railroad; Perth Amboy and ...
The lines include service offered on the Morristown Line and the Gladstone Branch. Prior to 2002, the former Montclair Branch, now part of the Montclair–Boonton Line, was included as well. The name refers to the Morris and Essex Railroad, which originally constructed the lines before being leased by the DL&W in 1868, and later outright ...