RSSGrade profile of the NYS&W Southern Division
May 29
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Derived from Erie Condensed Profiles – 1919.
Work in progress. Grade label cleanup and mile-marker restoration will be next.
Self-propelled Cars of the NYS&W Railroad
May 20
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Number |
Builder |
Date |
Notes |
| 1001 | ACF-Berwick | 7/40 | Destroyed by fire |
| 1002 | ACF-Berwick | 7/40 | sold 1950. Trade in on new Budds. |
| 1003 | ACF-Berwick | ?/40 | ex Illinois Central 131. Trade in for Budds. |
| 1004 | ACF-Berwick | ?/40 | ex Illinois Central 130. Trade in for Budds. |
| 1005 | ACF-Berwick | ?/41 | ex Illinois Central 140. Trade in for Budds. |
| 1006 | ACF-Berwick | ?/41 | ex Illinois Central 140. Trade in for Budds *(1005 & 1006 were front and rear units for IC’s “Land-O-Corn”) *(Need to know where these units went after trade-in, may have gone to Cuba). |
| 3001 | Brill-Pilli | ?/26 | ex B&M 1171, nee 171. Sold to Cuba. |
| 3002 | Brill-Phili | ?/?? | history? Was trailer unit for 3001. To Cuba. |
| M-1 | Budd | 5/50 | Acq new Budd #2996. To CNJ 558 4/58, to NJDOT 558 leased to MBTA 4/87, to NJTR 5196, to URHS 1991. Restored back to M-1 by NYS&WTHS; Leased to the NYS&WTHS by URHS of NJ (owner) |
| M-2 | Budd | 5/50 | Acq new Budd #2997. To CNJ 559 4/58, to NJDOT 559, NJTR 5197, to TVRRM, to NYS&WTHS 4/97 |
| M-3 | Budd | 10/50 | Acq new. To CNJ 560 4/58, to NJDOT 560, to LN&AC |
| M-4 | Budd | 10/50 | Acq new. To CHN 561 4/58, to NJDOT 561, NJTR 5199, to TVRRM, purchased by NYS&WTHS member 4/97; kept with the NYS&WTHS collection on BDRV. |
| M-5 | Budd | 4/52 | ex New Haven 23, PC 68, AMTK 18, leased to ConnDOT 7/80, to MBTA in 8/82, to MNCR 1986 #18 acquired NYS&W Railway 8/92 |
| M-6 | Budd | 2/53 | ex New Haven 37, PC 37, AMTK 11, to MTA 6/77, to MNCRR #11, to NYSW 8/92, to Conway Scenic ’08 |
| M-7 | Budd | 3/53 | ex New Haven 43, PC 43, to MNCRR 43 1/83, to NYSW 8/92, to Southern Railroad of NJ 2008 |
| M-8 | Budd | 4/53 | ex NYC M465, PC 65, to MNCRR 65 1/83, to NYS&W Railway 8/92 |
NYS&W Mileposts from Sparta Jct. to Pennsylvania
May 13
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NYS&W West To Pennsylvania
Abandoned and rails removed 1943, Stroudsburg to Hainsburg
Abandoned and rails removed 1963, Hainsburg to Sparta Jct.
63.9 Sparta Jct.
66.2 Hyper-Humus (formerly Warbasse, fromerly Branchville Jct.)
67.3 South Lafayette
69.1 Halsey
71.6 Swartswood Jct.
72.0 Swartswood
76.1 Stillwater
80.5 Marksboro
82.8 Paulina
83.8 Blairstown
85.6 Kalarama
87.1 Vails
89.8 Hainsburg
90.2 Hainsburg Jct.
91.2 Warrington
91.6 Delaware Jct (formerly Washington Jct.)
———
Delaware Branch
95.0 Delaware
———
92.4 Columbia
96.0 Dunnfield
97.7 Delaware River
98.6 Water Gap
101.5 Wilkes Barre and Eastern Jct.
102.0 Stroudsburg
104.7 Gravel Place
Staten Island Rwy & Rahway Valley RR Mileposts
May 13
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Staten Island Railway and Rahway Valley Railroad
SIRY 0.0 St. George
SIRY 2.5 West Brighton
SIRY 5.1 Arlington
———–
Travis Industrial Track
SIRY – Arlington Yard
SIRY – Con Edison
———–
SIRY 6.8 AK Drawbridge
SIRY 7.9 Bayway
SIRY 9.2 Linden
SIRY 10.9 Bantas
SIRY 11.7 Staten Island Jct (with CR Lehigh Line)
SIRY 12.2 Cranford Jct. (with NJT Raritan Valley Line begin RVRR) RVRR 0.0 Roselle Jct.
RVRR 1.7 Kenilworth
———–
Can Industrial Track
RVRR – Kenilworth
RVRR – Monsanto
———–
RVRR 2.8 Branch Jct.
———–
Jaeger Industrial
RVRR – Jaeger Lumber
———–
RVRR 4.4 Springfield
RVRR 7.1 Summit
List of NYS&W Station Call Signs
May 13
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Call Sign Station/Location Origin
PR Marion Pennsylvania Railroad
BR Croxton Bergen
OM Secaucus Road; Tyler Park; now Resources aka North Bergen Industrial
PR Marion Yard
SQ Susquehanna Transfer
KA North Bergen Schuetcen Park
ND New Durham
GR Granton Junction.
SO Babbit (SOap) Named for local Tallow plant
YD Little Ferry Jct. (YarD) Little Ferry Yard (Jct with Edgewater Branch)
GW Edgewater
WS Little Ferry Draw Bridge (West Shore) NYSW parallel with West Shore(NYC) here.
FY Little Ferry (station) (FerrY)
RP Ridgefield Park
BO Bogota
CP-Park MP13
HK Hackensack
HX Main St Crossing Trolley Crossing
CA NJ & NY Interchange Central Ave.
DO Lodi Jct. Lodi backwards?
DA Lodi LoDi BrAnch
MW Maywood
RO Rochelle Park
BT Coalberg Bergen Transfer
PC Passaic Jct.
DD Passaic Named after Dundee Section of Passaic
PW Elmwood Park reversed letters? or a former section of East Paterson
VA Vreeland Ave. Paterson Now called “PAT”
RS Paterson Broadway PateRSon
CH Paterson City Paterson City BrancH
RD Paterson RiversiDe
HW Hawthorne
NP North Hawthorne North Paterson until 1923
MP Midland Park
W Wortendyke
WY Wyckoff
CG Campgaw
CR Crystal Lake
DK Oakland Backwards, d then k
NM New Mill Switch Du Pont siding
PO Pompton Lakes
PJ Pompton Jct.
BD Bloomingdale
Butler Depot MP 37.55
BA Butler
GP Green Pond Jct.
CB Charlotteburg
MC Macopin Siding
WN New Green Pond Jct. Wharton & Northern
NW Newfoundland
OG Oak Ridge
CS Stockholm backwards?
RD Rich’s Deli (Unofficial)
BS Beaver Lake Two BridgeS
SA Sparta
SJ Sparta Junction Now called “Lime”
—–ex-L&HR-line—-
FK Franklin Junction
ZINC
Hamburg
MA McAfee
VR Vernon
—–NJ/NY State Line—–
PR Pelton Road (begin NS 20.6 Hudson Secondary)
Warwick
State School
SUGAR Sugarloaf
Greycourt (Chester)
HJ Hudson Junction (NS Southern Tier ex Erie Graham line)
Wilkes Barre and Eastern Mileposts
May 13
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Wilkes Barre & Eastern Railroad – Abandoned March of 1939
102.0 Stroudsburg
102.8 Shops
108.4 Bartonville
112.1 Reeders
113.2 Rinker’s
115.9 Tannersville
120.8 Half Moon
122.0 Crescent Lake
124.5 Pocono Summit
126.4 Naomi Pines
128.5 Pocono Lake
130.5 Wagner’s
135.2 Drums
137.9 Clifton
141.3 Ash Gap
146.2 Spring Brook
147.1 Panther Creek Viaduct
149.6 Summit
153.2 Langon
155.5 Suscon
———-
Susquehanna Connecting Railroad
159.5 Hillside Jct.
160.9 Moosic
163.2 Minooka
———-
157.1 Westminster Jct.
158.9 Fernwood 159.3
Jenkins Jct.
160.1 Yatesville
163.5 Plains
166.4 Wilkes Barre (Kingston PA)
Remaining NYS&W Railroad Stations
May 13
This is a list of all remaining stations still standing on the NYS&W Railroad, both Northern and Southern Divisions.
Southern Division:
Ridgefield Park
Bogota
Hackensack
Maywood
Rochelle Park
Paterson (Vreeland Ave.)
Hawthorne
Wortendyke
Wyckoff
Pompton Lakes
Butler
Newfoundland
Oak Ridge (Moved onto Fredericks Fuel Property)
Sparta
Vernon (L&HR)
Warwick (L&HR)
Northern Division
Syracuse Main:
Marathon
Cortland
Homer
Tully
Apulia
Jamesville
Syracuse (University)
Syracuse (Armory Square)
Syracuse (Carousel Mall)
Utica Main:
Norwich
Oxford
Greene
NYS&W Hanford Branch Mileposts
May 13
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The Hanford Branch – Abandoned 1958
55.7 Ogdensburgh
60.1 Franklin Furnace
60.4 Sussex Junction
62.3 Hamburg Junction
63.3 Hamburg
64.6 Lawrence
66.3 Martins
67.7 Sussex
70.5 Wantage
71.4 Quarryville
72.7 Van Sickles
74.2 Hanford
74.5 Middletown and Unionville Jct (NJ)
75.3 Unionville (NY)
77.0 Waterloo Mills
78.3 Westtown
80.0 Rutgers
81.0 Johnson
82.0 Waywayanda
83.3 Slate Hill
84.0 Haunted House
85.6 Spring Side
86.9 Webb’s Road
88.8 Middletown, East Main Street
NYS&W Northern Division Mileposts
May 13
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191.7 BH Binghamton
193.4 PD Port Dickinson
196.9 NG Chenango Bridge
202.8 CF Chenango Forks (jct. Utica Main)
208.16 IT Itaska
212.1 WP Whitney Point
214.3 LI Lisle
217.9 KW Killawog
220.9 MT Marathon
224.75 SV Messengerville
234.7 CL Cortland
238.0 HR Homer
244.35 PB Preble
249.1 TU Tully
251.65 AP Apulia
256.83 ON Onatavia
264.3 JV Jamesville
AS Armory Square (Syracuse)
271.0 SY Syracuse
210.8 GN Greene
216.6 BB Brisben
224.7 OX Oxford
232.9 NW Norwich
238.6 Galena
244.0 SH Sherburne
249.1 EV Earlville
255.8 HV Hubbardsville
259.6 NB North Brookfield
264.2 SF Sangerfield
265.3 WV Waterville
269.6 PS Paris
273.3 RJ Richfield Junction (to Richfield Springs
277.5 Bridgewater
279.1 West Winfield
282.4 Cedarville
288.8 South Columbia
293.3 Richfield Springs)
275.59 CV Clayville
277.53 SQ Sauquoit
278.96 CW Chadwick
281.1 WM Washington Mills
282.0 NH New Hartford
286.5 UT Utica
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