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Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project
The Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project (or Lackawanna Cut-Off MOS Trackbed Restoration Project) is a New Jersey Transit project that will bring passenger service back to the Lackawanna Cut-Off rail line in northwest New Jersey, with NJ Transit's commuter rail service to be extended from Port Morris Junction, at the southern tip of Lake Hopatcong, to Andover. Midtown Direct trains would operate between Andover and New York City. Later phases would rebuild the tracks across the remainder of the Cut-Off and extend service into northeastern Pennsylvania, possibly as far as Scranton. The project to Andover (Phase 1) is currently on hold, awaiting resolution of environmental issues that are expected to be resolved in time for construction to restart on the line in October 2016, with the start of rail service to Andover projected to begin in October 2018.
==History (1908–79)==
(詳細はDelaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W) to speed service between Hoboken, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York, the Lackawanna Cut-Off was the last main line built in New Jersey. The line was considered an engineering marvel of its day, with deep cuts, tall fills, and two large viaducts that allowed a mostly straight route through the mountains of the state's northwest region. Although the DL&W was profitable for most of its corporate life, competition from trucks and other economic pressures after World War II forced it to merge with competitor Erie Railroad to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad (EL) in 1960.
EL initially shifted most freight traffic away from the Cut-Off, though it continued to run passenger trains over the line. The railroad's flagship passenger train, the ''Phoebe Snow'', traveled via the Cut-Off until it was discontinued in November 1966, and the last regularly scheduled passenger train ran over the line in early January 1970. In the early 1970s, freight traffic was revived on the line after the closure of a key junction with the Penn Central in Maybrook, New York. But the conveyance of EL into Conrail on April 1, 1976, gave Conrail excess east–west trackage, and service on the Cut-Off ended in January 1979. (Conrail officials later said they might not have abandoned the Scranton Route, including the Cut-Off, if the EL had not severed a section of the Boonton Branch near Paterson, New Jersey, in the early 1960s for the construction of Interstate 80.)
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