Re: (erielack) Pascack Valley Line

[Ken <erie910_@_harborbeach.com>]

Ed & Listers,
When I lived in NJ and rode the NJ & NY from Hackensack, it seemed that the 
northern NJ end of the line was more affluent, and probably could afford 
station preservation.  As I recall, some of those stations still were in 
service in the 1970's, if not later, and preservation is always easier than 
restoration.


Ken

At 12:04 PM 7/9/02 -0400, MONTGOMERY| ED wrote:
>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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