New York and Greenwood Lake Railway (1878–1943)

New York & Greenwood Lake Service of the Erie Railroad (former)

Legend Sterling Forest Glens Awosting Hewitt Monks Boardville Ringwood Erskine Ringwood Branch at Ringwood Junction Wanaque-Midvale Haskell New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway to Stroudsburg Pompton Junction Pompton Riverdale Pompton Plains Pequannock Wayne Current NJT Montclair-Boonton Line / Former DL&W Boonton Branch Mountain View Singac Little Falls Morristown and Erie Railway Essex Fells Caldwell Verona Overbrook Cedar Grove Caldwell Branch Great Notch Montclair Heights Mountain Avenue Upper Montclair Watchung Avenue Montclair Montclair Connection / Current NJT Montclair-Boonton Line Glen Ridge Walnut Street Orchard Street Rowe Street Belwood Park West Orange Llewellyn Orange Brighton Avenue East Orange Bloomfield Avenue Silver Lake Orange Branch Newark City Subway Forest Hill Soho Park North Newark West Arlington Arlington Harrison-Kingsland Branch Newark Branch DB Draw over Hackensack River PRR Northeast Corridor/NJT NEC Main Line & Northern Branch DLW Mntclr M&E/NJT Mntclr M&E Main Pavonia Terminal (closed 1958) Hoboken Terminal Hudson River

For other uses, see New York and Greenwood Lake Railway.

The New York and Greenwood Lake Railway owned a line between Croxton, Jersey City, New Jersey and Greenwood Lake, New York.

The railroad was formed by combining the Montclair Railway, from Montclair, New Jersey to Jersey City, and the Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railroad, from Montclair to Greenwood Lake. The property was acquired directly in 1943 by the Erie Railroad, which merged with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1960, to create the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. It was founded by Julius Pratt, who invented the name Montclair for what was then West Bloomfield.^[1]

Conrail operated commuter rail on the line from 1976 to 1982, when New Jersey Transit Rail Operations took over. The line south and east of Mountain View is presently operated as part of the Montclair-Boonton Line and runs now to Hoboken, with Midtown Direct service into New York Penn Station. Conrail continued to operate freight service on the line until 1999, when the Norfolk Southern Railway took over. The line north of Mountain View, to Greenwood Lake, has been abandoned in stages.

Three passenger stations (Arlington, Rowe Street and Benson Street) were abandoned when the Montclair Connection opened in 2002.

The Hewitt Station in 1909.

References

• Railroads in New Jersey, The Formative Years, by John T. Cunningham, 1997, Afton Publishing Co., Inc.

1. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B04EEDF1630E733A25756C1A9669D946897D6CF

External links

• http://erierr.railfan.net/glbranch.html