New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway

New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway

Map of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway routes in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
NYS&W freight train No. SU-99 at Bogota, New Jersey, on June 2, 2021
Overview
Headquarters	Cooperstown, New York, U.S.
Reporting mark	NYSW
Locale	New Jersey New York Pennsylvania, U.S.
Dates of operation	1881–present
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Other
Website	www.nysw.com
Route map v t e New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway Legend Conrail Northern Branch CSX Bergen Subdivision I-495 Susquehanna Transfer 6.0 North Bergen 6.8 New Durham Babbitt Hudson–Bergen Light Rail CSX North Bergen Yard 8.0 CSX Northern Branch 9.8 Edgewater Branch Little Ferry Yard 10.9 Little Ferry 11.6 Ridgefield Park CSX River Subdivision 13.1 Bogota 13.7 Hackensack NJT Pascack Valley Line 14.6 Prospect Ave Lodi Industrial 15.2 Maywood 15.9 Rochelle Park Route 17 I-80 Passaic Junction Yard 17.4 NJT Bergen County Line Passaic Branch G.S. Parkway I-80 18.5 East Paterson 19.1 Vreeland Ave 20.3 Paterson NJT Main Line 22.6 Hawthorne 23.2 North Hawthorne Route 208 25.0 Midland Park 26.3 Wortendyke 27.7 Wyckoff 29.4 Campgaw 30.5 Crystal Lake Route 208 31.8 Oakland West Oakland 34.8 Pompton Lakes 35.4 Pompton Junction New York & Greenwood Lake Ry I-287 36.6 Bloomingdale 37.7 Butler 39.6 Smith's Mills Route 23 CNJ High Bridge Branch 42.7 Green Pond Jctrdt 43.2 Charlotteburg 44.9 Newfoundland 46.8 Oak Ridge Route 23 50.2 Stockholm 53.7 Beaver Lake Route 23 Hanford/Middletown Branch 56.7 South Ogdensburg 60.7 Sparta Lehigh & Hudson River Limecrest Industrial 62.9 Paulinskill Valley Trail (former Mainline) Franklin Route 23 Hamburg 73.2 McAfee 76.8 Vernon New Jersey New York Warwick 13.0 Sugar Loaf NY 17 12.6 Chester Orange Heritage Trailway former Erie Main Line Campbell Hall Junction I-84 Middletown NY 17 Otisville Tunnel Otisville Port Jervis New York Pennsylvania Mill Rift Shohola Lackawaxen Stourbridge Railroad Pennsylvania New York Narrowsburg Cochecton Callicoon Hancock NY 17 Deposit NY 17 Gulf Summit New York Pennsylvania Starrucca Viaduct Susquehanna I-81 Great Bend Pennsylvania New York Conklin Yard Binghamton Binghamton Yard v t e New York, Susquehanna and Western Legend Passenger service 1939–1966 Butler Yard Butler Bloomingdale I-287 New York & Greenwood Lake Pompton Junction Pompton Lakes West Oakland Ramapo River Oakland Crystal Lake Campgaw Wyckoff Goffle Brook Wortendyke Midland Park Goffle Brook Route 208 North Hawthorne Hawthorne Erie Main Line Passaic River Riverside – Paterson Paterson City Branch Broadway–Paterson Vreeland Avenue – Paterson Passaic River I-80 Route 17 East Paterson Passaic Branch Norfolk Southern / NJT Bergen County Line Passaic Junction Passaic Junction Yard I-80 Rochelle Park G.S. Parkway Maywood Lodi Branch Prospect Avenue Erie New Jersey & New York RR (NJT Pascack Valley Line) Hackensack River Street Hackensack River Bogota West Shore RR/ CSX River Subdivision US 46 Ridgefield Park CP5 Overpeck Creek Little Ferry Yard N.J. Turnpike Western Spur N.J. Turnpike Eastern Spur Edgewater Branch Erie Northern Branch Babbitt Granton Junction West Shore RR/ Hudson–Bergen Light Rail New Durham North Bergen Susquehanna Transfer I-495 Lincoln Tunnel approach Pennsylvania RR Northeast Corridor (NJT Northeast Corridor Line) West End Yard (Landbridge Terminal) end of Erie trackage rights to Croxton Yard Erie Main Line/ NY&GL Newark Branch Marion Junction: Northern Branch and PRR Passaic & Harsimus Line US 1/9 DL&W Montclair/ Morris & Essex RR (NJT Montclair/M&E/Main Lines) to Long Dock Tunnel & National Docks Secondary Bergen Arches Erie Yards Pavonia Terminal

The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway (reporting mark NYSW), also referred to as the Susie-Q or the Susquehanna, and formerly referred to as the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad, is an American Class II freight railway that operates over 400 miles (640 km) of trackage in the states of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

The NYS&W was formed in 1881 out of a merger of multiple smaller companies, and their original primary source of income was shipping anthracite coal out of Pennsylvania. From 1898 to 1940, the NYS&W operated as a subsidiary of the Erie Railroad. They emerged from the Erie's control, as part of their bankruptcy reorganization, and they discontinued their coal operations.

The NYS&W changed their primary source of income to providing commuter and bus services around the New York City-area, but by 1955, the services were losing money for the company. All of their commuter services were discontinued in 1966, and by that time, railroad experienced additional financial troubles from a loss of freight customers and interchange partners.

In 1980, the NYS&W was purchased by the Delaware Otsego Corporation (DO), and they reorganized and expanded the railway's operations and finances. They also benefited from Conrail's monopoly in the northeastern U.S., by operating competing intermodal trains until 1999, when Conrail was split between Norfolk Southern (NS) and CSX.

The NYS&W obtains a southern division, which runs from Jersey City, New Jersey to Binghamton, New York, and they obtain a northern division, formed by two branches north of Binghamton, which serve Utica and Syracuse. The two divisions are connected via trackage rights over the Southern Tier Line.