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Area residents have proposed to create a 7.3-mile (11.7 km) pedestrian linear park to parallel the trackage of the abandoned Rahway Valley Railroad. [1] [2] The rail trail would lie eastbound from Overlook Medical Center on the edge of downtown Summit, and then lie south along the old track bed through Springfield, Union, and Kenilworth, before ending at the southwest edge of Roselle Park at ...
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The Lackawanna Cut-Off (also known as the New Jersey Cut-Off, the Hopatcong-Slateford Cut-Off and the Blairstown Cut-Off) was a rail line built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W). Constructed from 1908 to 1911, the line was part of a 396-mile (637 km) main line between Hoboken, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York.
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 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
On June 16, 1925, a passenger train carrying German-American tourists from Chicago to Hoboken was slated to run over the Cut-Off, but in order to avoid freight trains on the line the special train was diverted onto the Old Road to Port Morris. [2] At Rockport, New Jersey, the train struck debris washed onto a road crossing by a heavy ...
Officials determined that the massive 40-foot by 40-foot sinkhole that opened up on the I-80 in New Jersey was caused by an abandoned mineshaft. Julian Leshay Guadalupe/NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY ...
Roseville Tunnel is a 1,000-foot (300 m) [1] two-track railroad tunnel on the Lackawanna Cut-Off in Byram Township, Sussex County, New Jersey. The tunnel is on a straight section of railroad between mileposts 51.6 and 51.8 (83 km), about 6 miles (9.7 km) north by northwest of Port Morris Junction. Operated for freight and passenger service from ...