The Sparkill station burned some time in the '60's or 70's. I don't know whether it was before or after EL pulled back to the state line. After the pullback, the track ended with two crossed ties very close to Skinner's Tavern in -- what? Rockleigh? Just north of Northvale, with the location of the state line being the operative factor in Skinner's importance to the newly driving New Jersey teenagers in search of legal beer. Boy! Were we dumb! Randy Brown - -------------------------------------------------------------- As far as I know, Conrail as such never ran on the Piermont Branch to Sparkill because the line was abandoned before Conrail was formed. Conrail did run on the Piermont Branch between Suffern and Spring Valley, and today NS runs on either end up to Tallman and in Spring Valley though not in the middle. Hopefully a more veteran Rockland person can answer this. From what I have been told, service on the branch basically stopped in the late 60's early 70's in that area and a lot of the track was ripped up around that time. There is still a station, I believe it is a freight station, in the area of NY 340 in Sparkill, not far from St. Thomas Aquinas College headed towards Piermont. ------------------------------
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