Port Jervis Line

Port Jervis Line
Port Jervis train #75 in Woodbury, New York, heading towards Salisbury Mills–Cornwall station
Overview
Owner	Norfolk Southern Railway (leased to Metro-North Railroad)
Locale	Northern New Jersey and Hudson Valley, New York, United States
Termini	Hoboken Terminal Port Jervis
Stations	12 (express service) 24 (local via Bergen County Line) 26 (local via Main Line)
Service
Type	Commuter rail
System	New Jersey Transit Rail Operations Metro-North Railroad
Operator(s)	NJ Transit Rail Operations (under contract to Metro-North Railroad)
Rolling stock	F40PH-3C/GP40PH-2/GP40FH-2/PL42AC/ALP-45DP locomotives Comet V
Daily ridership	2,613 (2018)
Ridership	571,368 (annual ridership, 2023)[1]
Technical
Line length	87.5 mi (140.8 km)
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map Show interactive map Legend NS Southern Tier Line Port Jervis Yard 87.5 mi 140.8 km Port Jervis Fmr. NYO&W Port Jervis Branch to Summitville (abandoned) Otisville Tunnel 73.8 mi 118.8 km Otisville Erie Main Line Graham Line NY 17 71.6 mi 115.2 km Middletown–Town of Wallkill Middletown (closed) Wallkill River Goshen (closed) 65.6 mi 105.6 km Campbell Hall Chester (closed) NYSW | L&HR Greycourt (closed) Greycourt Yard (abandoned, fmr. jct. of Newburgh Branch) 55.5 mi 89.3 km Salisbury Mills–Cornwall Moodna Viaduct over Newburgh Branch Moodna Viaduct over Moodna Creek Monroe (closed) Harriman (closed) 44.9 mi 72.3 km Harriman Arden (closed) 37.2 mi 59.9 km Tuxedo 34.6 mi 55.7 km Sloatsburg Suffern and Hillburn Yards Suffern Industrial Track (original Erie Main Line) 30.5 mi 49.1 km Suffern NY NJ 29.1 mi 46.8 km Mahwah 27.9 mi 44.9 km Ramsey Route 17 MAIN BCL 3.5 mi 5.6 km Secaucus Junction (NEC) M&E GLAD Bergen Tunnels Hoboken Yard 0.0 mi 0 km Hoboken Terminal Hudson River This diagram: view talk edit Show route diagram map

The Port Jervis Line is a predominantly single-track commuter rail line running between Suffern and Port Jervis, in the U.S. state of New York. At Suffern, the line continues south into New Jersey on NJ Transit's Main Line. The line is operated by NJ Transit Rail Operations under a contract with Metro-North Railroad (MNRR).

During weekday rush hours trains operate in express service, making stops only at New York state stations and at major stations in New Jersey where transfers can be made to services into New York City.

The line runs through some of the most remote and rural country found on the Metro-North system, and includes both its longest bridge, the Moodna Viaduct, and longest tunnel, the Otisville Tunnel.

Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) shares the use of the track for local freight operations between Suffern and Port Jervis. The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway operates over the line between Hudson Junction (east of Campbell Hall) and Port Jervis, and onward to Binghamton over the former Erie Railroad Delaware Division (now the Central New York Railroad). The tracks have been owned by NS since the 1999 split of Conrail, but were built by the Erie and incorporated into Conrail on its formation on April 1, 1976. Metro-North leased the entire line from NS in 2003, with the possibility of outright purchase after 2006. Since 2003, MNRR immediately began a substantial track and signal improvement program in order to provide a more reliable and comfortable service, for $183 million.