Piermont Branch

MNRR to Port Jervis (Erie Mainline to Dunkirk) MAIN BCL to Hoboken │ Suffern Suffern Depot (Razed 1941) Dater's Crossing Tallman NY 59 Monsey Heights Monsey NJT Woodbine Yard │ NJ&NY RR Haverstraw Branch Spring Valley I-287 / I-87 Nanuet PVL to Hoboken NJ&NY RR New City Branch NY 304 Severed Palisades Parkway Hackensack River Blauvelt Orangeburg CSX River Subdivision Northern Branch to Jersey City │ Sparkill NY/NJ Border Piermont │ Northern Branch to Nyack Piermont Pier Hudson River

Joseph B. Clarke Rail Trail / Old Erie Path

The Erie Railroad Piermont Branch was a rail line that was part of the original main line of the Erie. It ran from Suffern, New York to Sparkill, New York, orignally terminating at the Piermont pier. After the section in Piermont section was demolished, it ran with the Northern Branch from Sparkill to Nyack, New York.

Remnants

The rail line is an active Norfolk Southern line between Suffern and Tallmans, Train H55, based out of Hillburn Yard, runs down the line. Overgrown tracks remain between Tallmans and Spring Valley station. The Pascack Valley Line follows the route of the Piermont Branch from Spring Valley to Nanuet. Between Nanuet and Blauvelt, there are very few remnants. The only remnants in this section are a surviving Milepost 8 marker, and a bridge over a creek that carries nothing. Past Blauvelt, the line has been converted to rail trails, the Joseph B. Clarke Rail Trail from Blauvelt to Sparkill, the Old Erie Path from Sparkill to South Nyack, and the Raymond G. Esposito Trail from South Nyack to Nyack. The line terminated at Franklin Street in Nyack.