ROW along Route 46 near Belvidere, NJ

LnHR.
Plenty of pics of that line on my photo page.

At some point, a few miles west of Great Meadows, a pair of signal lamps are still standing. Saw them last Saturday.

From Pequest Furnace Road to the Route 31 intersection there are actually 2 railroads. The one closest to the Pequest River is the L&HR, the one about 50 feet up the hill is the DL&W Old Road. Actually at Pequest Furnace Road there are three railroads, the third being the Pequest Furnace RR. You can see its bridge abutments just beyond the L&HR bridge over the Pequest at that point.

There's also an embankment along the east side of Route 46, north of Delaware NJ for the Old Road. The embankment extends down to Manunka Chunk. On the north end, it accesses the rail bridge to the power plant at Portland, and the B&P connection

actually, it is even more interesting -- North of the old DLW bridge to
PA just north of Delaware, up to COlumbia, the modern route 46
sits on top of the old ROW of the Blairstown Railway, I think, later
NY Susquehanna and Western. I think the southern terminus
was Delaware to interchange with DLW, and the tracks went north
to columbia and then east on the south side of Paulins Kill creek to the delaware and then up to and through Blairstown.

Later NYSW built a line down to the delaware on the north side of
the creek, up through Columbia and through the watergap on the NJ
side, and then over to stroudsburg to interchange with DLW near there.
Route 80 is on top of the RoW in NJ north of COlumbia now.

http://www.historical.maptech.com/getIm ... g&state=PA

JS

...the PRR BEL-DEL that crossed 46 and met the DL at the west face of Manunka Chunk tunnel!

henry6 wrote:...the PRR BEL-DEL that crossed 46 and met the DL at the west face of Manunka Chunk tunnel!

Yes. It was a two level station, with the Pennsy about ten feet lower than the Lackawanna

The PRR and DL&W ran thru service from Trenton to Scranton via Stroudsburg for many years.

The Oxford Furnace RR was not very far from here as well, being only a short drive up Rt. 31. The wholearea has made for some very interesting exploration.