Editing Main Line (NJ Transit) (section)

==History==
The [[Erie Railroad]]'s main line ran from [[Jersey City]] to [[Chicago]] via [[Binghamton, New York|Binghamton]] and [[Jamestown, New York]], [[Akron, Ohio|Akron]] and [[Marion, Ohio]], and [[Huntington, Indiana]], with branches to [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]], and [[Dayton, Ohio|Dayton]]. The section in New Jersey and lower New York State saw frequent commuter service to the waterfront [[Pavonia Terminal]], Jersey City, with connections to the [[Pavonia Ferry]] to [[Lower Manhattan]].

The Erie Railroad's major long-distance passenger trains to [[Chicago]], the ''[[Atlantic Express and Pacific Express]],'' the ''[[Erie Limited]]'', and the ''[[Lake Cities (Erie Railroad train)|Lake Cities]],'' ran along this section, through Passaic, [[Paterson, New Jersey|Paterson]], Ridgewood, on to [[Port Jervis]], northwest to [[Binghamton]], New York State's [[Southern Tier]], [[Jamestown, New York|Jamestown]], and west to Chicago. The final long-distance train along this route was the ''Atlantic Express and Pacific Express'' in 1965.<ref>'Official Guide of the Railways,' June 1961, Table 3</ref> 
[[File:Roger Puta took these 5 during a cab ride on from EL freight NY-97 on April 25, 1970 (23777886193).jpg|thumb|left|Trains at the Erie Lackawanna rail yard in Waldwick on April 25, 1970]]

In 1963, the Erie Main Line south of [[Paterson, New Jersey|Paterson]] to its connection with the Bergen County Line south of [[Carlton Hill (Erie Railroad station)|Carlton Hill]] in [[Rutherford, New Jersey|Rutherford]] was abandoned and service began using the former [[Lackawanna Railroad|Lackawanna]] [[Boonton Branch]] south of Paterson via the [[Lyndhurst Draw]] and [[Upper Hack Lift]] bridges as the route through downtown [[Passaic, New Jersey|Passaic]] was abandoned. Nominal Boonton Line service began using the Erie's [[New York and Greenwood Lake Railway (1878–1943)|Greenwood Lake division]] up to its junction with the Lackawanna Boonton Branch at Mountain View in [[Wayne, New Jersey|Wayne]] as the Lackawanna right-of-way in Paterson was used for the construction of [[Interstate 80]] and [[New Jersey State Highway 19]]. The Erie Jersey City terminal was abandoned circa 1959 after all Erie service had moved to the Lackawanna Hoboken Terminal.

Service under Erie Lackawanna introduced new [[GE U34CH]] diesels and Comet I cars in 1970 which lasted under NJ DOT and Conrail into the NJ Transit era. Metro-North took over service north of Suffern in 1983. Effective April 18, 1983, [[Metro-North Railroad]] shifted its [[Port Jervis Line]] service to run on the [[Graham Line]] freight bypass, thus ending the direct passenger route from [[Harriman, New York|Harriman]] through Monroe and Goshen to Middletown. Service was increased along with the opening of the [[Secaucus Junction]] station in late 2003.

=== 1996 Secaucus collision ===
On February 9, 1996, a Main Line train was involved in a [[1996 Secaucus train collision|collision]] with a Bergen County Line train in Secaucus.