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 line of former NJ Transit ALP-44 electric locomotives stored on the Lackawanna Cut-Off near Port Morris. Photographed in April 2013, the locomotives were finally cut up in early 2026.[citation needed]
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, NJ, in February 2012.
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The Lackawanna Cut-Off was a rail line built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Constructed from 1908 to 1911, the line was part of a 396-mile main line between Hoboken, New Jersey, and
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. Phase 1 of the project, launched in 2011, is slated to extend NJ Transit's commuter rail service 7.3 miles (11.7 km) from Port…
Westbound Lackawanna Limited near Pequest Fill, c. 1912; the photo that later inspired a Phoebe Snow poster
A May 1909 view of the Wharton Fill looking east from atop Roseville Tunnel, ten months into construction
Paulinskill Viaduct near Hainesburg is 115 ft (35 m) tall and was the world's largest reinforced concrete structure when built.
A brochure about the construction of the Cut-Off, given to news reporters during the December 15, 1911 inspection trip