Re: (erielack) Riding the Commuter Lines

["Gary R. Kazin" <gkazin_@_yahoo.com>]

- --- Ken <lackawanna_@_iname.com> wrote:
> It's been nearly 30 years since I left NJ, and things have changed. 
> Wonder if any can answer some questions:

> If I recall correctly, NS/Metro-North abandoned commuter service on the
> old Main Line and now runs everything via the freight cutoff.  I looked 
> for where the old main and cutoff might meet, but couldn't find any
> evidence of the junctions.  Where were they, and what still exists?

There is a passing track at the Harriman station.  Just north of the
station is a wye, which was the connection to the old main.  It is still
in service for a freight customer, less than a mile of track IIRC.  The
rest of the lie was torn up and is a hiking trail.

> Does the east-west track from Suffern still connect to the NJ&NY/Pascack
> Valley line?

No.  It extends to Airmont Road (Thruway exit 14A) and a bit farther east
to serve the paper recycling company there.  Track is still there but has
not been used in MANY years, so is heavily overgrown.  It would probably
be difficult to WALK the line between Tallman and Spring Valley.  The line
between Piermont and Nanuet was abandoned and the track is gone; even the
east leg of the Nanuet wye is gone.  The Nanuet post office now occupies
this area.  Metro-North has considered restoring the line between Spring
Valley and Suffern, but nothing has happened.

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Gary R. Kazin
DL&W Milepost R35.7
Rockaway, New Jersey

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