Belvidere and Delaware River Railway

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Belvidere and Delaware River Railway

Overview
Headquarters	Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Reporting mark	BDRV
Locale	Hunterdon County, New Jersey
Dates of operation	1995–present
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length	16 miles
Other
Website	https://www.cadrailroads.com/

The Belvidere & Delaware River Railway Company (reporting mark BDRV) also known as Delaware River Railroad is a class III railroad in the United States.^[1] It was formed in 1995 when the Conrail Delaware Secondary line was purchased by the Black River Railroad System, which operates several railroad services in western New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. The Black River Railroad System also owns and operates the Black River & Western Railroad (BR&W). BR&W leases 10 miles of track to BDRV since 2004.^[2] Trackage purchased was a segment of the original Belvidere Delaware Railroad, later controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Penn Central, then Conrail.

The main freight service on the BDRV is south along the Delaware River from Phillipsburg to Carpentersville, a distance of 5 miles along the scenic Delaware River in New Jersey. Much of the industry currently is lumber and stone. BDRV originally served the James River Paper plant in Milford, New Jersey, assuming the task from Conrail: service to the plant ended in July 2003 when the plant closed. Rail service to a lumber transload continued serving Milford into 2004 when service on this part of the line was finally terminated. Freight service to Corrugated Paper Group (now Georgia Pacific) in nearby Riegelsville, New Jersey terminated in 2005 when the firm switched from railroad to trucking for product shipment.

BDRV interchanges with Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) in Phillipsburg, which provides connections to the national rail network. Commercial agreements also provide a connection with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) at Allentown, Pennsylvania. BDRV is a NS handling carrier, meaning NS haulage rates include delivery to BDRV customers by BDRV.

The BDRV, along with BR&W, is part of the Chesapeake and Delaware^[3] system, which also includes the newly formed Delaware and Raritan River Railroad out of Jamesburg, New Jersey.