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Norfolk Southern rail line in New York and Pennsylvania
Southern Tier Line
Overview
StatusActive
OwnerNorfolk Southern Railway
LocaleUpstate New York, Delaware Water Gap
Termini
Service
TypeFreight rail
SystemNorfolk Southern
Operator(s)
Technical
Number of tracks1-2
Track gauge4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map

Legend
mi
Buffalo Terminal Subdivision
421.8 Ebeneezer Industrial Track
CPR Buffalo Yard
Black Rock branch
415.6 Bison Yard
415.4
Depew, Lancaster and
Western Railroad
414.5 Depew
413.2 Lancaster
398.8 Darien Center
392.6 Attica
371.2 Rock Glen
Rochester and Southern Railroad
368.3 Silver Springs
365.3 Castile
Genesee Arch Bridge
355.3 Dalton
337.0 Arkport
Western New York and
Pennsylvania Railroad
331.2 Hornell
301.2 Addison
Wellsboro and Corning Railroad
292.9 Gang Mills
Corning Industrial Track
Cohocton River
290.8 B&H Rail Corporation
292.0 Painted Post
290.9 Corning
290.5 Corning Secondary
283.2 Big Flats
Horseheads Industrial Track
276.9 Horseheads
272.6 Elmira
Chemung River
260.0 Chemung
Chemung River
255.2 Waverly
Lehigh Secondary
Ithaca Secondary
Owego and Harford Railway
236.0 Owego
227.8 Campville
222.6 Endicott
Vestal Industrial Track
214.0 Binghamton
Syracuse Main Line
Sunbury Line
213.0
Norfolk Southern Railway
Central New York Railroad
205.5 Kirkwood
199.8 Great Bend
Susquehanna River
191.5 Susquehanna
189.8
189.5 Starrucca Viaduct
Delaware and Hudson Railway
176.0 Deposit
West Branch Delaware River
163.0 Hancock
East Branch Delaware River
135.2 Callicoon
130.0 Cochecton
121.4 Narrowsburg
117.8 Delaware River
110.5 Lackawaxen River
The Stourbridge Line
110.0 Lackawaxen
106.1 Shohola
90.8 Delaware River
88.0
Central New York Railroad
Metro-North Railroad
87.5 Port Jervis [REDACTED]
87.2 Port Jervis
86.4 Neversink River
Original line
Otisville tunnel
73.8 Otisville [REDACTED]
69.3 Original line
76.4 Old main line
74.2 Crawford Industrial Track
71.6 Middletown–Town of Wallkill [REDACTED]
67.1 Wallkill River
Walden Secondary
65.6 Campbell Hall [REDACTED]
65.5 Otter Kill
63.1 Hudson Secondary
61.6 Otter Kill
55.5 Salisbury Mills–Cornwall [REDACTED]
55.1 Moodna Viaduct
45.0 Old main line
44.9 Harriman [REDACTED]
37.2 Tuxedo [REDACTED]
34.5 Sloatsburg [REDACTED]
Hillburn Yard
31.3
Metro-North Railroad
NJ Transit
Suffern Industrial Track
30.5 Suffern [REDACTED] [REDACTED]
NJ Transit Main Line
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The Southern Tier Line is a railroad line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. The line was built by the Erie Railroad and its predecessors and runs from Buffalo, New York, to Suffern, New York. From its east end, NS has trackage rights south on the New Jersey Transit Main and Bergen County Lines to Conrail's North Jersey Shared Assets Area.

From Port Jervis to Binghamton, the line is leased to and maintained by the Central New York Railroad, part of the Delaware Otsego Corporation. It junctions with the Lake Erie District at its west end. Along the way it meets the Corning Secondary at Corning, New York. The Metro-North Railroad leases the line from Suffern to Port Jervis and operates the Port Jervis Line commuter rail service.

History

The oldest piece of the line, from Suffern to Newburgh Junction in Woodbury, New York, opened in 1841 as part of the New York and Erie Rail Road. Extensions opened to Port Jervis and Binghamton in 1848, Owego in 1849, and Dunkirk (leaving the Southern Tier Line at Hornell) in 1851. At the Buffalo end, the Attica and Buffalo Railroad opened from Buffalo east to Attica in 1842, but was part of the New York Central Railroad system until 1852, when it was sold to the Buffalo and New York City Railroad east of Depew. Also in 1852, the Buffalo and New York City Railroad built southeast from Attica to Hornell and west from Depew to Buffalo. The entire line became part of the Erie Railroad through leases and mergers.

Norfolk Southern leased the section between Suffern and Port Jervis to the Metro-North Railroad on March 31, 2003. It leased the section between Port Jervis and Binghamton to the Central New York Railroad on December 31, 2004.

References

  1. "PRR Chronology, 1841" (PDF). (60.7 KiB), May 2004 Edition
  2. "PRR Chronology, 1848" (PDF). (38.1 KiB), April 2005 Edition
  3. "PRR Chronology, 1849" (PDF). (43.2 KiB), April 2005 Edition
  4. "PRR Chronology, 1851" (PDF). (67.7 KiB), March 2005 Edition
  5. "PRR Chronology, 1842" (PDF). (70.6 KiB), May 2004 Edition
  6. "PRR Chronology, 1852" (PDF). (83.5 KiB), March 2005 Edition
  7. "Abandonments & Acquisitions". Trains. Vol. 63, no. 7. July 2003. p. 15. ISSN 0041-0934.
  8. Hartley, Scott A. (April 2005). "A stretch of the old Erie has another new operator: CNY". Trains. Vol. 65, no. 4. p. 16. ISSN 0041-0934.
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