Pascack Valley Line

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     Pascack Valley Line

#4109 pushes Train #1628 out of Hackensack-Essex Street, en route to Hoboken Terminal.
Overview
Type Commuter rail line
System New Jersey Transit and Metro-North Railroad
Locale North Jersey, Hudson Valley
Termini Hoboken Terminal
Spring Valley
Stations 18
Operation
Owner New Jersey Transit
Operator(s) New Jersey Transit
Rolling stock F40PH-2CAT/GP40PH-2/GP40FH-2/PL42AC locomotives
Comet coaches
Technical
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in)
Route map
Unknown route-map component "ACCa"
Spring Valley
Unknown route-map component "AKRZu"
New York State Thruway
Unknown route-map component "ACC"
Nanuet
Stop on track
Pearl River
Unrestricted border on track
New YorkNew Jersey border
Unknown route-map component "ACC"
Montvale
Stop on track
Park Ridge
Stop on track
Woodcliff Lake
Stop on track
Hillsdale
Unknown route-map component "ACC"
Westwood
Stop on track
Emerson
Stop on track
Oradell
Unknown route-map component "eHST"
New Milford
Stop on track
River Edge
Stop on track
New Bridge Landing
Unknown route-map component "AKRZu"
NJ 4
Unknown route-map component "eHST"
Fairmount Avenue
Stop on track
Anderson St.Hackensack
Unknown route-map component "eHST"
Center Street
Unknown route-map component "KRZu"
NYS&W mainline
Unknown route-map component "ACC"
Essex St.Hackensack
Unknown route-map component "AKRZu"
Interstate 80
Stop on track
Teterboro
Unknown route-map component "eHST"
Hasbrouck Heights
Stop on track
Wood-Ridge
Unknown route-map component "ABZld" Continuation to left
Meadowlands Rail Line diverges
Unknown route-map component "eHST"
Carlstadt
Continuation to right Junction from right
Bergen County Line diverges
Unknown route-map component "AKRZu"
NJ Route 3
Small bridge over water
Hackensack River via HX Draw
Continuation to right Junction from right
Main Line diverges
Unknown route-map component "AKRZu"
NJ Turnpike
Continuation to right Unknown route-map component "TurmBHFAo" Continuation to left
Secaucus Junction (NEC intersects)
Junction from right
Morris & Essex Lines
Enter and exit tunnel
Bergen Tunnels
Urban railway Unknown route-map component "ACCe" Pier
Hoboken Terminal
Transverse water Transverse water
Hudson River

The Pascack Valley Line is a commuter rail line operated by the Hoboken Division of New Jersey Transit. The line runs north from Hoboken, New Jersey through Bergen County and into Rockland County, New York, terminating at Spring Valley. Service within New York is operated under contract with Metro-North Railroad. The line is named for the Pascack Valley region that it passes through in northern Bergen County. The line parallels the Pascack Brook for some distance.

The line is colored purple on system maps, and its symbol is a pine tree.

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[edit] Current operations

The Pascack Valley 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 and Nanuet Stations are leased to Metro-North Railroad. Metro-North Railroad owns the Spring Valley station. The line is single tracked, but sidings at points along the line, including the Meadowlands, Hackensack and Nanuet permit bidirectional service on the line.[1][2] Service on this line operates seven days a week.[3]

[edit] History

The line was originally chartered as the Hackensack and New York Railroad in 1856. It later became the New Jersey and New York Railroad, which was bought by the Erie Railroad in 1896. The New Jersey and New York Railroad continued to exist as an Erie subsidiary until the 1960 merger that created the Erie Lackawanna Railroad.

In 1976 the Erie Lackawanna was merged with several other railroads to create Conrail. In 1983, after several years under operation by Conrail, operations of the Pascack Valley Line were transfer to NJ Trainsit 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.

[edit] Rolling stock

All service on this line is diesel, using either GP40PH-2s built in 1968 for the Central Railroad of New Jersey or EMD F40PH locomotives. These either have been or soon will be refurbished. Modern Alstom PL42ACs are also in use, and Comet series passenger cars are used on this line.

[edit] Source

  • The Pascack Valley Line: A History of the New Jersey and New York Railroad, Wilson E. Jones; ISBN 0-941652-14-9

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