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 #1395331  by mohawkrailfan
 
I was looking at old Conrail-era commuter timetables, and this 1980 map confirms that in those days the only service west of Dover was on the Boonton Line, and all Morristown Line trains terminated at Dover.

Nowadays you can get from Hackettstown to Morristown OR to Boonton. So my questions are...

1. When did Netcong-Morristown service begin again? Was it with the Netcong-Hackettstown extension or independent of that?

2. Was there a technical reason they could only run Netcong trains on the Boonton Line, or was it just to make the schedule simpler?
 #1395393  by R36 Combine Coach
 
M&E service west of Dover did begin with the Hackettstown extension in October 1994. In 1995, in anticipation of Midtown Direct service, all M&E and Boonton diesels were shifted to Port Morris from Dover Yard. A 1995 timetable advertised six weekday trains in each direction between Hackettstown and Hoboken, split between Boonton and M&E.

During the Lackawanna/EL era, Washington trains via Netcong usually operated via Boonton.