Otisville, NY.  Resumption of double track after exiting the tunnel.  This is the site of the current M-N station.  Also a frequent location of meets between passenger trains today.

Campbell Hall, NY.  Once a place steeped in railroad history and activity.  Today there is is spartan shelter.  The RDC photos are from a August 1988 trip from Hoboken.  Campbell Hall once hosted the Erie, the Ontario & Western and the New York Central.  Also the Lehigh & Hudson River and the Lehigh & New England were nearby.

Greycourt, NY.  I am on the old Erie mainline looking west.  The Lehigh & Hudson River passes overhead.  Today the Susquehanna uses the L &HR bridge, while the Erie tracks are long gone.

A series of views of the downtown Erie station in Middletown, NY.  This was the original Erie mainline and after the Graham line was opened, it was primarily used for passenger trains.  NJ Transit re-routed their passenger service via the Graham line and the tracks through this part of Middletown were removed.

Goshen, NY.  This photo is from 1974 and the mainline is still in service.  You may notice a curved platform to the left of the station.  The Lehigh & New England used trackage rights over the Erie from Pine Island Jct. to here in Goshen.  The abandoned (1961) L &NE swung north toward the yard at Maybrook.  Although the locals cried the blues about the trains running through the middle of their town, the tracks were replaced by none other than a..........parking lot.  Ah, progress.  The station still exists.

This rather sad looking station was located at Harriman, NY.  It was finally torn down in 2006, but a Metro-North station stop remains here.  It is a rather busy station because of the nearby Outlet Center.  Since this is about a one mile away from the outlets, the local taxi companies do a good business at train time.

Arriving at Tuxedo, NY as viewed from the front window of a MN RDC car in 1988.
A quick shot of the Tuxedo station from 1970.  That Ford Fairlane wagon is as of much interest as the station.

The local freight that operated daily in the Tuxedo area was commonly known as the 'Paterson Ordinary'.  Here a single SD45 handles the train heading west passing the famous Tuxedo Falls.  Today there is only one track and some tree growth limits photo possibilities.  1974.

A series of views of the Central Valley station.  Located along Route 17, it no longer serves as a stop.  The passenger station remains today.

Eastbound local with 4 GP-9's makes a set-out at Campbell Hall.  The bridge once carried the Erie over the Ontario & Western mainline.  The train is heading over to the remains of the Maybrook Yard to deliver a cut of cars to the Penn Central.

A trio of EL Geeps sit at the Maybrook engine terminal in the fall of 1973.  The yard had a very short amount of time left.

The same train as above just few miles west at Howells Jct.  It is here that the old main via downtown Middletown and Goshen was joined by the Graham Line.  The freight is making a setout of some high and wide cars on the old main.  The Graham Line is used today by MN.  The very east end of the passing siding from Otisville is here.  The old main line is still in service for local freight service to Middletown.  Ironically a small portion of the old O &W is still used today in Middletown rather than the Erie main.

This page continues the former Erie Railroad mainline from the New York State line to the old division point at Port Jervis. The tracks head almost due north from Suffern passing through Tuxedo, Central Valley and Harriman.  Just before reaching the Harriman station, a junction between the old main line via Goshen and Middletown and the newer Graham line via Salisbury Mills existed.  After NJ Transit/Metro-North re-routed all passenger service in 1984 via the Graham Line the old main was largely abandoned. Local NIMBY's were happy to see the tracks through downtown Goshen and Middletown removed.  BTW, the Graham Line was named after its engineer, the same gentlemen who designed the B&O cutoff along the Potamc River between Hancock, WV and Paw Paw, WV.  The Graham line continues due north and then turns west after crossing the Moodna Creek viaduct by the Salisbury Mills station site.  The current station at Middletown is located a few miles north of town near several large shopping centers.  In todays age, the large parking lot is well used by commuters, something the old downtown station site could never accomodate.  While the NJT/MN passenger service is more frequent than in the late EL days, there is very little freight activity.  The only through freights are operated by the Susuquehanna and run only at night to avoid any conflicts with the passenger service.  A NS local works out of Campbell Hall to serve the few remaining customers in the Middletown area.  The Middletown area was once a very busy area for freight activity at one time.  To pick one year as an example, in 1956 the Erie, the Ontario & Western, the Lehigh & New England, the Lehigh & Hudson River and the New York Central all converged in the area of Maybrook.  Maybrook was the site of a large yard where most of the railroads interchanged cars with the New Haven with traffic headed for New England.  The combination of a declining industrial base, the merger of the New Haven into the Penn Central in 1970 and finally the burning of the Poughkeepsie Bridge in 1974 all conspired to kill off all the freight traffic.

The restored Port Jervis depot in 1988, again in 2009.  It remains in mint condition today.  The Stillwell cars were parked by the station back in 1973.  The 'aerial' image was taken from the hilltop visiible in many of the images on this page.  You can see at least two EL SD45's sitting in the terminal.  That image is courtesy of Gary Madden(GM).

A few images from 1973 of the E8 units that spent the weekend here.  The first picture is of a former Lackawanna unit with its two headlights.
The PC unit was off a run-through of some sort.  After April 1, 1976, the Penn Central units were everywhere. 

These two black and white images were taken in 1973.  That Boston and Maine RS-3 was on the EL for several months during 1973 and early 1974.

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First stop north/west of Suffern is Sloatsburg.

A pair of GP-35's in 1968(GM)                             

C425 2453 from April 1974            This unit is still in use today by the Mohawk, Adirondack & Northern in upstate New York.

2453 from an original slide dated May 30, 1966.  Note the Erie-Lackawanna lettering is above the maroon stripe.

In this original slide from 1970, the pair of SD45's on the right were bought by the D & H, but were traded to the E-L for GE U33C's since the D & H didn't own any other EMD's.

On my ususal visits to Jervis on Sundays, there were always a few E8's sitting there over the weekend.  Most of these photos were taken in 1974 and 1975.

This photo of F7B 7398 was taken 4-14-74

On Sunday, November 6, 1988, I made an early morning visit to Port Jervis.  The EL had been gone for over 12 years and NJ Transit and MetroNorth were running the passenger trains.  The old RDC cars and the EL U34CH units were still hanging around, but not for to much longer.

The ruins of the coal and sanding facilities at Port Jervis still remained in 1988. 

I have several images from the early Conrail years.  I found this one in the throw-away box.  This Missouri Pacific GP38 was leased by Conrail during its power-short years.  May 1976.  I'll find more and post them soon.