(erielack) Secaucus Transfer, etc.

["Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>]

Re: Newburgh branches -- the Newburgh Branch ran from Greycourt to Newburgh via Blooming Grove, Washingtonville, Salisbury Mills, Vail's Gate and New Windsor.  The Newburgh Short Cut ran from Newburgh Jct, between Arden (station for Harriman's Arden House) and Harriman, via Central Valley, Highland Mills, Woodbury, Houghton's Farm, Mountainville, and Enderlin to Vail's Gate Jct, where it met the Newburgh Branch.  

The 1909 construction of the Graham Line pretty much disrupted the south end of the Short Cut, but it lasted for a while.  Track is still in north of Mountainville, where the station still stands, perhaps as a municipal building -- the library, maybe?  Sharp eyes on the Thruway can see the right of way cross near Highland Mills.

The current, active line north out of Newburgh Jct is the Graham Line. 

The NYO&W crossed the Short Cut at Enderlin; the Newburgh Branch near Vail's Gate; the Graham Line near Campbell Hall and again near Crawford Jct (Pine Bush Branch).

See Ed Crist's ERIE MEMORIES,  pp99 and 122.

I rode a fan trip in the '50's or '60's which rode on Moodna Viaduct and later ran the Newburgh Branch under it.  The rest of the itinerary has vanished in the mists of time.

Randy Brown

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