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From: tommy meehan tmeehan0421 AT gmail DOT com
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 19:19:42 -0400
Subject: NJ&NY
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I'm attaching scans of the New Jersey & New York (including the New City
Branch) passenger schedule -- and a scan of the Piermont Branch service --
from the May 1927 OFFICIAL GUIDE. As you can see (and I apologize because
the scans aren't too good) there was a huge amount of service operated back
then. The New City Branch even had rush hour through service, one train
each way. In the morning it was Train 620 that connected at Nanuet with a
motor car from Haverstraw, then ran nonstop from Woodcliff Lake to Jersey
City. In the late afternoon Train 619 ran nonstop from Jersey City to Park
Ridge, then all stops to New City with a Nanuet connection for Haverstraw.

There were still trains that originated/terminated at Hillsdale too.

On the Piermont Branch the 600 series trains (shown originating/terminating
at Spring Valley) were all NJ&NY trains. There were three each way.
Example: Train 633 departed Jersey City at 6:24 PM, made skip stops to
River Edge, then all stops to Suffern.


tommy meehan


From: EriePacific AT aol DOT com
> Subject: Re: (erielack) NJ&NY
>
>
> 5/14/16 @6:59 AM EDT
> Bill, Joe and Ken,
>
> There's no question that there was a wye at Nanuet, with one leg -- the
> part of the line that connected the NJ&NY to the Piermont Branch for
> continuation to Spring Valley -- on the west side of Nanuet Station, one
> leg being
> part of the line that crossed the Piermont Branch at grade/crossing
> diamond
> - -- for continuation onto the New City Branch -- on the east side of
> Nanuet
> Station and one leg connecting the west leg to the east leg -- across the
> north side of Nanuet Station just south of, and independent of, the
> Piermont Branch. An illustration of the track diagram can be found in
> Wilson
> Jones' "The Pascack Valley Line" book. The switches on the wye were all
> hand-thrown as I recall them and as depicted by Jones in a 1953 photo
> from his
> collection, in his book.
>
> I don't recall when the diamond was torn up and Jones didn't cover that,
> but my uncle and I were there on a day in 1950 when a westbound way freight
> on the short section of the New City Branch that still remained in
> northeast
> Nanuet to Bardonia (Clarkstown) came west (south by compass), crossed the
> diamond and proceeded east on the Piermont Branch after clearing the wye.
> This was most memorable, not only because of my keen interest in Erie
> steam
> trains at the time, but because we were driving (my uncle doing the
> driving -- I was 11 years old) south on N. Middletown Road/Main Street in
> Nanuet
> and needed to wait at the Main Street - New City Branch grade crossing for
> this New City Branch train to clear. No sooner did the train clear the
> crossing and with heavy automobile traffic ahead just starting to move
> for us,
> the flashers for the Piermont Branch then activated as the train moved
> east, requiring at least 15 (and perhaps 20) minutes for us to proceed
> south
> towards NJ and home. I enjoyed every minute of it and it left an
> indelible
> memory on my mind ever since.
>
> So, while I can't say that any trains east of Nanuet on the Piermont Branch
> were ever routed over the NJ&NY, here was a train from the remaining
> portion of the NJ&NY New City Branch routed eastbound over the Piermont
> Branch.
> Wilson Jones appears to indicate that service came to an end between
> Nanuet and New City in 1939 (June 3), but at least some portion of this
> line
> remained and at least some service on this line was retained; evidenced,
> his
> (Jones) photo captioned "The brakeman has switched his train to the New
> City
> branch where it will connect with the "Y" track and back into Spring
> Valley. July 1953." The wye was still in place at that time and freight
> service
> was still established even if more limited and cut back from its original
> New City end of line.
>
> Ray Wetzel
>


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