Pocono Mountain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 The station site of Mount Pocono station in October 2020. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Route 611, Coolbaugh Township, Pennsylvania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°07′03″N 75°21′16″W / 41.1175°N 75.3545°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Privately owned[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Pocono Mainline | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | 1,000 spaces (proposed)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pocono Mountain is a proposed New Jersey Transit Rail Operations (NJT) station located in Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania and is part of a site that was formerly utilized as a summer camp.[2][3] The proposed station site, which will include a 1,000-space surface parking lot, is located northwest of a multi-phased planned development for this area. Access will be from Pennsylvania Route 611 via Pocono Municipal Road/Mount Pocono Road and a local access road and the platform would be situated east of the track.[1]
Rail service from this station to New Jersey and New York City would be provided by NJ Transit if Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project is completed. In spring 2021, Amtrak announced plans for potential New York-Scranton route.
- ^ a b c "New Jersey – Pennsylvania Lackawanna Cut-Off Passenger Rail Service Restoration Project Environmental Assessment" (PDF). U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, and New Jersey Transit in cooperation with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. June 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 19, 2019. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
- ^ Pierce, David. "Poconos residents to get a look at commuter rail plans." Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Pocono Record, July 13, 2008.
- ^ Pierce, David. "Rail project presented in Stroudsburg." Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Pocono Record, July 16, 2008.