by Snowmojoe
Hi All,
Who owns the tracks that head north from around Palisades Park through Englewood, Cresskill, Tenafly, Closter, Norwood, Northvale and then terminates up by the NY State line? I believe it becomes a rail trail up there. Not the CSX main line - the rails I am talking about are further east (the CSX main goes through Teaneck/Bergenfield/Dumont not Englewood.) It seems like they must originate off the CSX main somewhere but I haven't tracked them back to their origin.
I worked in Englewood for a while and every now and then a locomotive would show up in the center of town and move around the string of black tank cars that were always sitting on a siding just south of Englewood Ave. That was around 10 years ago now and I don't remember ever seeing the markings on the locomotive. Used to drive people nuts because it would mess up traffic real bad and it didn't seem like they were really doing anything productive. *Someone* was using the tracks for something back then - car storage at the very least.
What is the history behind those tracks? (Erie?) Is that CSX now? Are they still active at all? North of Englewood where the tracks closely parallel Dean St., they are very dodgy looking. They don't look to be in any kind of shape to support traffic.
Who owns the tracks that head north from around Palisades Park through Englewood, Cresskill, Tenafly, Closter, Norwood, Northvale and then terminates up by the NY State line? I believe it becomes a rail trail up there. Not the CSX main line - the rails I am talking about are further east (the CSX main goes through Teaneck/Bergenfield/Dumont not Englewood.) It seems like they must originate off the CSX main somewhere but I haven't tracked them back to their origin.
I worked in Englewood for a while and every now and then a locomotive would show up in the center of town and move around the string of black tank cars that were always sitting on a siding just south of Englewood Ave. That was around 10 years ago now and I don't remember ever seeing the markings on the locomotive. Used to drive people nuts because it would mess up traffic real bad and it didn't seem like they were really doing anything productive. *Someone* was using the tracks for something back then - car storage at the very least.
What is the history behind those tracks? (Erie?) Is that CSX now? Are they still active at all? North of Englewood where the tracks closely parallel Dean St., they are very dodgy looking. They don't look to be in any kind of shape to support traffic.
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