The Pascack Valley Line runs between Spring Valley, New York, and Hoboken Terminal. The line is 31 miles (50 km) long, of which the northernmost 6 miles (9.7 km) are in New York State. The entire line is owned by NJ Transit, but the Pearl River, Nanuet and Spring Valley stations are leased to Metro-North Railroad. The line is single tracked, but sidings at points along the line, including the Meadowlands, Hackensack and Nanuet, permit bi-directional off-peak service. A siding in Oradell was also planned for increased service and reliability, but the project was halted due to local opposition.[3][4] Service on this line operates seven days a week.[5]
On April 1, 1976 the Erie Lackawanna was merged with several other railroads to create Conrail.[7][8] In 1983, after several years under operation by Conrail, operations of the Pascack Valley Line were transferred to NJ Transit Rail Operations.
The line used to continue north of Spring Valley to Haverstraw, New York. This portion of the line has been abandoned and most of the right-of-way has been sold off. Part of the line (between Spring Valley and Nanuet) was once part of the main Erie Railroad line from Piermont, New York to Buffalo, New York.[9] Into the 1930s there had been Erie passenger service from Spring Valley at the end of the Pascack line to Suffern station on the newer Erie Main Line.[10] By 1941, this was reduced to a single weekday trip in each direction.[11]
In August 2020, amidst the financial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said that it would shut down service on the line in Rockland County if federal bailout money were not available.[12]
September 2016 crash
On September 29, 2016, Pascack Valley Line Train 1614 crashed into Hoboken Terminal injuring 108 and killing one.[13]
Some train sets use equipment owned by Metro-North, which are so marked.
Stations
Bibliography
Mott, Edward Harold (1899). Between the Ocean and the Lakes: The Story of Erie. New York, New York: John S. Collins. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
References
^"NJ TRANSIT QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS November 2012" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved December 16, 2016.
^"2023 ANNUAL RIDERSHIP REPORT". mta.info. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
^Pascack Valley Line Right-of-Way Improvement Project. New Jersey Transit, January 2006.
^NJ TRANSIT RAMPS UP PROJECT TO PROVIDE BI-DIRECTIONAL, OFF-PEAK SERVICE ON PASCACK VALLEY LINE: Project also makes way for rail service to the Meadowlands, press release dated May 11, 2005
^PASCACK VALLEY LINE CUSTOMERS TO GET IMPROVED SERVICE THIS FALL, New Jersey Transit Press Release August 16, 2007 Accessed September 13, 2007
^"Conrail merger family tree". Trains Magazine. June 2, 2006. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved September 30, 2016.
^"Erie Lackawanna Historical Society". www.erielackhs.org. Retrieved September 30, 2016.
^Grant, H. Roger (October 1, 1996). Erie Lackawanna: The Death of an American Railroad, 1938-1992. Stanford University Press. p. 208. ISBN 9780804727983. erie lackawanna conrail 1976.
^"RAILROADS CENTERING IN NEW-YORK.; Time Tables, &c., of the New-York, Harlem and Albany, Hudson River, New-York and New-Haven, New-York and Erie, New-Jersey Central, New-Jersey, Long Island, Flushing, Hackensack and New-York, Morris and Essex, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Jamaica, Perth Amboy and Woodbridge, Millstone and New-Brunswick, Hackensack and New-York Railroads. NORTH. SOUTH. EAST. WEST. THE LOCAL RAILROADS". The New York Times. January 21, 1866. ProQuest 92284310.
^'Official Guide of the Railways,' August 1936, Erie Railroad section, Table 47
^'Official Guide of the Railways,' June 1941, Erie Railroad section, Table 38
^Zambito, Thomas C. (August 26, 2020). "MTA could eliminate Pascack Valley, Port Jervis lines if federal bailout doesn't come through". Rockland/Westchester Journal News. Gannett. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
^A New Jersey Train Crash Has Left at Least 100 People Injured Esquire By Associated Press; September 29, 2016
^ a b c"Pascack Valley Line Timetables - November 19, 2014 edition" (PDF). New York, New York: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 7, 2016. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
^Frassinelli, Mike (June 5, 2013). "U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg gets one last ride at the Secaucus station that bears his name". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
^ a b c dBaer, Christopher T. (April 2015). "A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Its Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context: 1861" (PDF). Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. p. 6. Retrieved November 19, 2022. Jan. 21, 1861 – Hackensack & New York Railroad begins operating into the Jersey City Terminal of the New Jersey Railroad; 6'-0" gauge track extended in station.
^ a b c d"Railroad Miscellany". The Railroad Record. Cincinnati, Ohio: 567. January 17, 1861. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
^ a b c dJones, Wilson E. (1996). The Pascack Valley Line - A History of the New Jersey and New York Railroad. East Hanover, New Jersey: Railroadians of America. p. 44. ISBN 0-941652-14-9.
^ a b"Hackensack and New-York Railroad" (PDF). The New York Times. New York, New York. September 9, 1869. Retrieved January 9, 2010.
^Pascack Valley Line Timetables. Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit. 1982.
^"Railway Extension". The New York Times. March 6, 1870. p. 8. Retrieved August 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
^"50th Anniversary Greetings". The Bergen Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. June 2, 1944. p. 14. Retrieved February 15, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^ a bBackus, Kathleen S. (March 21, 1957). "Removal of Historic Buildings Excites Interest in Borough". The Bergen Evening Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. p. 5. Retrieved December 25, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Bergen County". The Paterson Evening News. April 13, 1893. p. 3. Retrieved August 29, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
^"The Manor Section: 100 Years of Hillsdale History" (PDF). The Hillsdale, New Jersey Newsletter. Summer 1991. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
^ a b c dAdriance, Tim (Spring 2018). "A History of Bergen County Railroads". Autumn Years. Bergen County, New Jersey. p. 46. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
^ a bMott 1899, p. 331.
^ a bSeymour, HC (October 28, 1841). "Eastern Division of the New York and Erie Railroad". The Evening Post. New York, New York. p. 1. Retrieved July 31, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
Metro-North Railroad Schedules
Pascack Valley Line History
Some additional history
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