Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project
The Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project is a New Jersey Transit and Amtrak effort to restore passenger service to the Lackawanna Cut-Off in northwest New Jersey.
A NJ Transit electric locomotive stored on the Lackawanna Cut-Off at Port Morris in April 2013
Rail officials promoting the restoration of service on the Lackawanna Cut-Off and the 1989 New Jersey bond issue for the acquisition of rail rights-of-way on WFMV, a radio station located in the Blairstown station
Preservation efforts during the 1980s led to a newly configured crossing of the Cut-Off on County Route 521 in Blairstown. This is a November 2006 replica.
The western end of restored track near Lake Lackawanna, New Jersey, in February 2012.
NJ Transit Rail Operations
NJ Transit Rail Operations is the rail division of NJ Transit. It operates commuter rail service in New Jersey, with most service centered on transportation to and from New York City, Hoboken, and Newark. NJ Transit also operates rail service in Orange and Rockland counties in New York under contract to Metro-North Railroad. The commuter rail lines saw 57,179,000 riders in 2023, making it the third-busiest commuter railroad in North America and the longest commuter rail system in North America by route length.
NJ Transit provides rail service throughout North Jersey, between Philadelphia and Atlantic City in South Jersey, and in the lower Hudson Valley west of the Hudson River.
Morristown and Erie Railroad, one of the freight operators authorized to operate on the NJ Transit system, crossing the Passaic River in Roseland
Hoboken Terminal, the terminus for all trains headed east on the Hoboken Division
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