The Montclair–Boonton Line is a commuter rail line of New Jersey Transit Rail Operations in the United States. It is part of the Hoboken Division. The line is a consolidation of three individual lines
A westbound train departs Montclair Heights in February 2015
Watsessing Avenue station on the Montclair Branch pre-depression in 1912
The Mountain Avenue station in Montclair, the only one of the five stations not built in 1872 by the New York & Greenwood Lake
Great Notch Station looking towards Hackettstown prior to closure
New Jersey Transit Corporation, branded as NJ Transit or NJTransit and often shortened to NJT, is the state agency that owns the public transportation system that serves the U.S. state of New Jersey a
Montclair–Boonton Line
…part of a project to remove tracks through Passaic. In 1983, the maintenance of the Montclair Branch and the Boonton Line were taken over entirely by New Jersey Transit. The Boonton Line at that point began out of Hoboken Terminal, heading westward through the Jersey Meadows and into Kearny, crossing the Passaic river…
NJ Transit provides bus service throughout New Jersey, commuter rail service in North and Central Jersey and along the US Route 30 corridor, and light rail service in Hudson and Essex counties, and elsewhere in the Philadelphia metropolitan area
A Pennsylvania Railroad class GG1 train, built for the Pennsylvania Railroad in the 1930s–1940s, hauls a commuter train into South Amboy station in 1981
Locomotive engineers picketing at Hoboken Station, May 16, 2025
NJ Transit's headquarters at Penn Plaza East in Newark