Pascack Valley Line

  Pascack Valley Line

A Hoboken Terminal-bound train at River Edge station.
Overview
Type Commuter rail
System New Jersey Transit and Metro-North Railroad
Locale Northern New Jersey and Hudson Valley, New York, United States
Termini South: Hoboken Terminal in Hudson County, New Jersey
North: Spring Valley in Rockland County, New York
Stations 18
Operation
Owner New Jersey Transit
Operator(s) New Jersey Transit
Rolling stock F40PH-3C/GP40PH-2/PL42AC/ALP-45DP locomotives
Comet V
Technical
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Route map
Legend
Hudson River
0.0 Hoboken Terminal
 Hoboken Yard
 Bergen Tunnels
Morris & Essex Lines diverge

Secaucus JunctionNortheast Corridor
 NJ Turnpike E Spur
Main Line diverges
 5.6 Hackensack River via HX Draw
 NJ Turnpike W Spur
 NJ Route 3
7.6 Bergen County Line diverges
 Carlstadt
Meadowlands Rail Line diverges
 9.6 Wood-Ridge
 Hasbrouck Heights
 11.2 Teterboro
 U.S. 46
 Interstate 80
 12.4 Essex StreetHackensack
NYS&W mainline
 Center Street
 13.5 Anderson StreetHackensack
 Fairmount Avenue
 NJ Route 4
 14.7 New Bridge Landing
 16.4 River Edge
 New Milford
 17.8 Oradell
 19.3 Emerson
 20.5 Westwood
 21.4 Hillsdale
 Hillsdale Manor
 22.7 Woodcliff Lake
 23.6 Park Ridge
 24.2 Montvale
New Jersey
New York
 25.4 Pearl River
 27.9 Nanuet
 New York State Thruway
 30.6 Spring Valley
 31.2 Woodbine Yard

The Pascack Valley Line is a commuter rail line operated by the Hoboken Division of New Jersey Transit, in the United States. The line runs north from Hoboken Terminal, through Hudson County and Bergen County in New Jersey, and into Rockland County in New York, terminating at Spring Valley. Service within New York State 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.

Description

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.[1][2] Service on this line operates seven days a week.[3]

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 October 17, 1960 merger that created the Erie Lackawanna Railroad.[4]

On April 1, 1976 the Erie Lackawanna was merged with several other railroads to create Conrail.[5][6] 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.

September 2016 crash

On September 29, 2016, a Pascack Valley Line train crashed at Hoboken Terminal injuring over 100 and killing one.[7]

Rolling stock

All service on this line is diesel, using either GP40PH-2, PL42AC, or ALP-45DP locomotives. Comet series passenger cars are used on this line; Bombardier MultiLevel coaches are occasionally used on this line.

Some train sets use equipment owned by Metro-North, which are so marked.

Stations

Zone
[8]		 Station[8] Miles (km)
from HOB		 Date
opened		 Date
closed		 Connections / notes[8]
1 Hoboken Terminal 0.0 (0.0) 1903 NJ Transit: Bergen County, Gladstone, Main, Meadowlands, Montclair-Boonton, Morristown, North Jersey Coast, and Raritan Valley Lines
Metro-North: Port Jervis Line
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail: 8th Street-Hoboken, Hoboken-Tonnelle
PATH: HOB-WTC, HOB-33, JSQ-33 (via HOB)
NJT Bus: 22, 22X, 23, 54, 68, 85, 87, 89, 126
New York Waterway to Battery Park City
Morris & Essex Lines (Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch) diverge
Secaucus Junction 3.5 (5.6) 2003 NJ Transit: Bergen County, Gladstone, Main, Meadowlands, Montclair-Boonton, Morristown, North Jersey Coast, Northeast Corridor, and Raritan Valley Lines
Metro-North: Port Jervis Line
NJT Bus: 2, 78, 129, 329, 353
Main Line diverges
Bergen County Line diverges
Meadowlands Rail Line diverges
3 Wood-Ridge 9.6 (15.4) c. 1860 Formerly Wood-Ridge-Moonachie
Hasbrouck Heights
4 Teterboro
(limited service)		 11.2 (18.0)
5 Essex Street 12.4 (20.0) 1860 NJT Bus: 76, 712, 780
Formerly Hackensack
Center Street
Anderson Street 13.5 (21.7) 1869[9] NJT Bus: 175, 770
Fairmount Avenue 1869[10] 1983[11]
6 New Bridge Landing 14.7 (23.7) 1870[10] NJT Bus: 175, 762
Rockland Coaches: 11
Formerly Cherry HIll,[10] then North Hackensack
River Edge 16.4 (29.4) 1900 NJT Bus: 175, 762
Rockland Coaches: 11
New Milford
7 Oradell 17.8 (28.6) NJT Bus: 175, 762
Rockland Coaches: 11
8 Emerson 19.3 (31.1) NJT Bus: 165
Rockland Coaches: 11
9 Westwood 20.5 (33.0) NJT Bus: 165
Rockland Coaches: 11, 14, 46, 84
Hillsdale 21.4 (34.4) 1869 Rockland Coaches: 11
Hillsdale Manor
10 Woodcliff Lake 22.7 (36.5)
Park Ridge 23.6 (38.0)
Montvale 24.2 (38.9) Rockland Coaches: 11
New Jersey / New York state line
MNR Pearl River 25.6 (41.2) Transport of Rockland: 92
Operated by Metro-North Railroad
Nanuet 27.9 (44.9) Transport of Rockland: 92
Rockland Coaches: 11
Operated by Metro-North Railroad
Spring Valley 30.6 (49.2) Transport of Rockland: 59, 91, 92, 94, Monsey Loop 3, Tappan ZEExpress
Rockland Coaches: 11, 45
Operated by Metro-North Railroad
Woodbine 31.2 (50.2)

References

  1. ↑ Pascack Valley Line Right-of-Way Improvement Project. New Jersey Transit, January 2006.
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ PASCACK VALLEY LINE CUSTOMERS TO GET IMPROVED SERVICE THIS FALL, New Jersey Transit Press Release August 16, 2007 Accessed September 13, 2007
  4. ↑ "Conrail merger family tree | Trains Magazine". Retrieved 2016-09-30.
  5. ↑ "Erie Lackawanna Historical Society". www.erielackhs.org. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
  6. ↑ Grant, H. Roger (1996-10-01). Erie Lackawanna: The Death of an American Railroad, 1938-1992. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804727983.
  7. ↑ A New Jersey Train Crash Has Left at Least 100 People Injured Esquire By Associated Press; Sep 29, 2016
  8. 1 2 3 "Pascack Valley Line Timetables - November 19, 2014 edition" (PDF). New York, New York: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Hackensack and New-York Railroad" (PDF). The New York Times. New York, New York: TimeWarner. September 9, 1869. Retrieved January 9, 2010.
  10. 1 2 3 Jones, 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.
  11. ↑ Pascack Valley Line Timetables. Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit. 1982.
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