Hackensack and New York Railroad

Hackensack and New York Railroad
Locale Bergen County, New Jersey
Dates of operation 1858–1870's
Successor New Jersey and New York Railroad
Track gauge 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge)
Headquarters Hackensack, New Jersey[1]
Hackensack and New York Railroad
Legend
 Passaic Street
Central Avenue (1870, closed 1953)
NYS&W mainline
Essex Street (1861, 1893, burned 1970)
Williams Avenue (station house demolished 1967)
Hasbrouck Heights (closed 1967)[2]
Woodridge (station house demolished 1967)[2]
Carlstadt (closed 1967)[2]
New York & Erie (to Jersey City)

Hackensack and New York Railroad was a New Jersey railroad company which was chartered in 1856. The railway ran from Rutherford, New Jersey to Hackensack, New Jersey and service started in 1858. Construction along a northward extension of the line known as the Hackensack and New York Extension Railroad under the leadership of David P. Patterson started in 1866. Service to Hillsdale opened on 4 March 1870.[3] The company was reorganized as the New Jersey and New York Railroad, extended into Rockland County, New York and leased by the Erie Railroad in 1896.[2] The track right of way is now New Jersey Transit's Pascack Valley Line.[4]

References

  1. ^ Yanosey, Robert J. (2006). Erie Railroad Facilities (In Color). 1. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc.. pp. 95. ISBN 1582481830. 
  2. ^ a b c d Jones, Wilson E. (1996). The Pascack Valley Line - A History of the New Jersey and New York Railroad. East Hanover, New Jersey: Railroadians of America. ISBN 0-941652-14-9. 
  3. ^ Mrnarevic, Karen F. (10 December 2009). "Hillsdale's history 'tied' to the railroad". Pascack Valley Community Life (NorthJersey.com). http://www.northjersey.com/news/78940177.html. Retrieved 2010-11-09. 
  4. ^ http://www.piercehaviland.com/rail/pv.html Accessed January 13, 2010.