Editing River Line (Conrail) (section)

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{{Other uses|River Line (disambiguation)}}
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[[File:Current north Hudson County railroads.png|thumb|300px|right|A map of the River Line and former River Line at its south end; the River Line comes from the northwest corner, and used to turn east through the tunnel and then south along the river.]]

The '''River Line''' was a [[Conrail]] rail line located between [[Jersey City, New Jersey]] and [[Selkirk, New York]], United States. It ran along the west side of the [[The Palisades (Hudson River)|Hudson Palisades]] and, after passing through a tunnel at [[Haverstraw, New York]], along the west bank of the [[Hudson River]]. It was previously the [[New York Central Railroad|New York Central]]'s [[West Shore Railroad]] and Weehawken Branch. The River Line has since been split into several sections, following the 1999 division of Conrail assets between [[Norfolk Southern Railway]] and [[CSX Transportation]].

The majority of the line is now the [[River Subdivision (CSX Transportation)|CSX River Subdivision]], which runs from Control Point 2 (CP2) at the [[North Bergen Yard]] in [[North Bergen, New Jersey]] to Selkirk. The portion south of CP2, including the [[Weehawken Tunnel]], is now part of [[NJ Transit]]'s [[Hudson–Bergen Light Rail]]. Freight trains continuing south of CP2 now use the [[Northern Branch|Northern Running Track]], a portion of a former Erie Railroad line that has been upgraded to handle the traffic. At Selkirk, the River Subdivision ends at the [[Castleton Subdivision]], with the [[Port Subdivision]] continuing towards [[Albany, New York|Albany]]. The Castleton Sub was built in 1924 as part of a bypass for through freight trains around Albany.