Editing Pascack Valley Line (section)

==History==
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The line was originally chartered as the [[Hackensack and New York Railroad]] in 1856. It later became the [[New Jersey and New York Railroad]], which was bought by the [[Erie Railroad]] in 1896. The New Jersey and New York Railroad continued to exist as an Erie subsidiary until October 17, 1960 merger that created the [[Erie Lackawanna Railroad]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 2, 2006|url=http://trn.trains.com/railroads/railroad-history/2006/06/conrail-merger-family-tree|title=Conrail merger family tree|work=Trains Magazine|access-date=September 30, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002202914/http://trn.trains.com/railroads/railroad-history/2006/06/conrail-merger-family-tree|archive-date=October 2, 2016}}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}}

[[File:PiermontBranch 19310927.png|thumb|Passenger Timetable for the New York & New Jersey Railroad and Piermont Branch, effective 1931-09-27]]

On April 1, 1976 the Erie Lackawanna was merged with several other railroads to create [[Conrail]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.erielackhs.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=17|title=Erie Lackawanna Historical Society|website=www.erielackhs.org|access-date=September 30, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/erielackawannade0000gran|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/erielackawannade0000gran/page/208 208]|quote=erie lackawanna conrail 1976.|title=Erie Lackawanna: The Death of an American Railroad, 1938-1992|last=Grant|first=H. Roger|date=October 1, 1996|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=9780804727983|language=en}}</ref> In 1983, after several years under operation by Conrail, operations of the Pascack Valley Line were transferred to NJ Transit Rail Operations.

The line used to continue north of Spring Valley to [[Haverstraw, New York]]. This portion of the line has been abandoned and most of the [[Right-of-way (transportation)|right-of-way]] has been sold off. Part of the line (between Spring Valley and Nanuet) was once part of the main [[Erie Railroad]] line from [[Piermont, New York]] to [[Buffalo, New York]].<ref>{{cite news |title=RAILROADS CENTERING IN NEW-YORK.; Time Tables, &c., of the New-York, Harlem and Albany, Hudson River, New-York and New-Haven, New-York and Erie, New-Jersey Central, New-Jersey, Long Island, Flushing, Hackensack and New-York, Morris and Essex, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Jamaica, Perth Amboy and Woodbridge, Millstone and New-Brunswick, Hackensack and New-York Railroads. NORTH. SOUTH. EAST. WEST. THE LOCAL RAILROADS |id={{ProQuest|92284310}} |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1866/01/21/archives/railroads-centering-in-newyork-time-tables-c-of-the-newyork-harlem.html |work=The New York Times |date=21 January 1866 }}</ref> Into the 1930s there had been Erie passenger service from Spring Valley at the end of the Pascack line to [[Suffern station]] on the newer [[Erie Main Line]].<ref>'Official Guide of the Railways,' August 1936, Erie Railroad section, Table 47</ref> By 1941, this was reduced to a single weekday trip in each direction.<ref>'Official Guide of the Railways,' June 1941, Erie Railroad section, Table 38</ref>

In August 2020, amidst the financial repercussions of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said that it would shut down service on the line in Rockland County if federal bailout money were not available.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zambito |first1=Thomas C. |title=MTA could eliminate Pascack Valley, Port Jervis lines if federal bailout doesn't come through |url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/transit/2020/08/26/mta-cut-pascack-valley-port-jervis-lines/5634142002/ |access-date=25 April 2021 |work=Rockland/Westchester Journal News |publisher=Gannett |date=August 26, 2020}}</ref>