Johnsonburg (DL&W station)

Johnsonburg Station (right) and creamery in 1911. In the distant background is Armstrong Cut, where a 1941 landslide closed the Cut-Off for a month and led to the trimming of the cut's north (right) side.

Johnsonburg Station was a railroad station and was one of the three original stations on the Lackawanna Cut-Off in northwestern New Jersey. Built by contractor Hyde, McFarlan & Burke, the station opened in 1911. Located on the western end of Ramsey Fill in rural Frelinghuysen Township, the station generated only modest passenger and freight business for the railroad. As a result, it was closed in 1940. The station was temporarily reopened in 1941 to serve as a command post for the clearing of the landslide that took place within nearby Armstrong Cut. After the closing of the station building, Johnsonburg continued to be a flag stop on the Cut-Off until the 1960s. A creamery was built by the railroad at the station site and operated for a number of years.

In the early 1990s, the station building was rehabilitated by Jerry Turco, who owned the Cut-Off from 1985-2001, after the line had been abandoned by Conrail. But the isolated building was subject to vandalism, and in 2007, Johnsonburg Station was demolished by the state of New Jersey.