RE: (erielack) New York & Greenwood Lake Railroad

["Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>]

Gary Kazin responded to Rich Young:

> > 	It should be an inspired paint job, as the Original
> > NY&GL RR was purchased fully by the Erie in 1897 and continued as a 
> > corporate entity long after that until reorganisation.  Does the 
> > current NY&GL operate the same trackage as the original?
> > 
> > 	Rich Young
>
> No, none of it.  The current NY&GL operates on the former 
> Erie Dundee Spur in Passaic.
> 
> The only parts of the original NY&GL in operation today are 
> used by NJ Transit as part of the Boonton Line, between 
> Mountain View (Wayne) and the junction with the former 
> Lackawanna Boonton Line west (north) of West End. There is a 
> little bit of freight traffic.  Part of the Orange Branch 
> stub was taken over for the Newark City Subway extension to 
> the new Light Rail Vehicle maintenance facility and is not in 
> revenue service yet.  The shop is in use and the LRV's have 
> run since the fall.



The NY&GL has, however, announced their proposal to run passenger shuttle
trains between Glen Ridge, NJ (where NY&GL owns the station there and uses
it as their office) and Hoboken, NJ - if they succeed, they will fulfill
their name once again. (The portion between Glen Ridge and West End is all
former Erie/EL, nee-NY&GL, and is slated to be "railbanked" once the
Montclair Connection goes in place, hence this proposed passenger shuttle)

	- Paul

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