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From: tommy meehan tmeehan0421 AT gmail DOT com
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:02:47 -0500
Subject: Nyack & Northern/Southern
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I'm attaching a short section from an ICC Valuation Report (from 1930)
which gives a capsule history of the Nyack & Northern/Southern. It was
built as Nyack & Northern in 1869 in the Jay Gould-Jim Fisk era. In fact
archived local news accounts from that era describe Jim Fisk coming up from
Jersey City on a special train to check on construction.

The name was changed to Nyack & Southern during the late 1890s' Morgan-led
reorganization. I read joking references about the name change in local
newspapers that were published at the time. (They're available on microfilm
at the Nyack or Spring Valley public libraries.) That the original name --
Nyack & Northern -- wasn't a very good name for a rail line running south
from Nyack! Of course the name referred to the fact it connected Nyack with
the Northern RAILROAD at Sparkill not the direction of travel.

I believe the end of passenger service on the N&S predated that on the rest
of the line. That in 1965 the EL petitioned New York and New Jersey to
discontinue passenger service on the whole line, Hoboken to Nyack and the
NYS Public Service Commission approved it first. I believe train service
between Sparkill and Nyack came off in December 1965, with the portion in
New Jersey being operated until September 1966.

tommy meehan


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