(erielack) Pascack Valley Line

["MONTGOMERY| ED" <emontgom_@_LAN.TJHSST.EDU>]

Last week when I was up in New Jersey I went over into Bergan 
County and checked out the old NJ&NY.  From Westwood north I 
was surprised to see that just about all of the railroad stations had 
been preserved.  They all looked great.  I wonder how this was 
done?  This line never had a tremendous amount of passenger 
service yet the communities seemed to have clung to their depots.  
Everyone looked great from Westwood to Pearl River.  This little 
line must have had a lot of people who cared for it.  It was sort of 
like Erie's version of Lackawanna's Gladstone Branch (P&D for 
purists).  Too bad they didn't cling to the old semaphore ABS that 
was on the line as well.

Ed Montgomery

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