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mi Niagara Subdivision 424.8 East Buffalo Belt Subdivision Black Rock branch Frontier Yard to Rochester Subdivision Niagara Falls branch 417.3 Bowmansville 411.7 Clarence Tonawanda branch 406.5 Akron 400.2 Alabama 394.0 Oakfield 389.7 Elba 383.4 Byron Centre Rochester Subdivision 376.4 Bergen 374.1 Churchville Chili Junction Rochester Subdivision 365.4 Chili Centre Rochester and Southern Railroad Genesee Valley Greenway Genesee River Rochester branch (LVRR) Rochester branch (ERIE) 359.8 Mortimer 355.8 Edgewood Auburn and Rochester Railroad Rochester Subdivision 349.0 Fairport 341.4 Macedon 337.6 Palmyra 332.8 Port Gibson 329.2 Newark Elmira and Lake Ontario Railroad Erie Canal 324.1 Lyons Erie Canal Corning Secondary 316.7 Clyde Clyde River 310.8 Savannah 307.2 Montezuma Erie Canal 303.0 Port Byron 299.9 Weedsport Auburn Branch 295.2 Jordan 289.9 Memphis 278.8 Warners 285.2 Amboy 278.3 Syracuse (Washington Street) 277.1 Syracuse Yard Original NYC routing Chenango Branch 270.3 Manlius Centre 267.6 Kirkville Kirkville Junction 263.7 Chittenango Elmira and Cortland Branch 257.4 Canastota Mohawk Subdivision 255.2 Wampsville New York, Ontario and Western Railway 251.8 Oneida Castle 246.6 Vernon 241.7 Hecla New York, Ontario and Western Railway 238.0 Clark Mills New York Mills branch 233.1 New York Mills New York, Ontario and Western Railway New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway 229.5 East Utica Mohawk Subdivision Schuyler Junction Mohawk Subdivision 226.1 Harbor 220.9 Frankfort 218.7 Ilion 216.5 Mohawk 212.9 Jacksonburgh 209.1 Little Falls 204.2 Indian Castle 200.9 Mindenville 199.0 St. Johnsville 193.8 Fort Plain 190.3 Canajoharie 187.1 Sprakers 183.1 Downing 178.4 Fultonville 174.7 Auriesville 172.9 Fort Hunter 168.1 South Amsterdam 161.3 Pattersonville 160.1 Central Junction (Hudson Subdivision) 159.5 Rotterdam Junction (B&E) Freight Line Delaware and Hudson Railway 152.6 South Schenectady Carman Subdivision 147.2 Fullers 145.8 Guilderland Center Industrial park Voorheesville Line 142.2 Voorheesville 140.2 New Scotland 136.2 Feura Bush Selkirk Yard 132.6 South Bethlehem Port Subdivision Selkirk Junction (Castleton Subdivision) 127.93 Ravena 124.91 New Baltimore 120.14 Coxsackie 114.72 West Athens 110.03 Catskill 104.83 Alsen 101.00 Malden-on-Hudson 99.06 Saugerties 95.82 Mount Marion 92.35 Lake Katrine Ulster and Delaware Railroad 88.15 Kingston Wallkill Valley Railroad 85.49 Port Ewen 82.60 Ulster Park 80.44 Esopus 78.36 West Park 73.32 Highland Maybrook Line 68.02 Milton 64.62 Marlborough 63.39 Cedarcliff 60.97 Roseton 56.68 Newburgh Newburgh Branch Cornwall branch 52.27 Cornwall West Point tunnel 47.32 West Point 46.42 Highland Falls 42.83 Fort Montgomery 41.91 Bear Mountain 41.01 Iona Island 39.03 Jones Point 36.72 Tomkins Cove 34.94 Stony Point 33.29 West Haverstraw New Jersey and New York Railroad 32.15 Haverstraw Haverstraw tunnel 28.50 Congers 26.25 Valley Cottage 24.17 West Nyack 21.88 Blauvelt Piermont Branch 20.53 Orangeburgh New York New Jersey 19.08 Tappan 17.21 West Norwood 16.03 Harrington Park 14.26 Haworth 12.89 Dumont 11.98 Bergenfield 10.14 West Englewood 8.99 Teaneck 7.90 Bogota 7.27 West View New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway 6.54 Ridgefield Park 5.96 Little Ferry Overpeck Creek Little Ferry Yard Northern Branch Northern Branch 1.51 North Bergen Weehawken Tunnel New Jersey Junction Railroad 0.00 Weehawken Terminal Ferry to Manhattan

The main line of the West Shore Railroad is a partially-abandoned railway line in the states of New Jersey and New York. At its fullest extent, it ran from Weehawken Terminal on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York. It runs roughly parallel to the former main line of the New York Central Railroad and was originally built as a competitor to that line, but was acquired by the New York Central Railroad and used as primarily as a freight line. Much of the line has been abandoned but several sections remain in use, including most of the line on the west side of the Hudson between Weehawken and Albany.

History

See also: West Shore Railroad § History

The Ridgfield Park Railroad began constructing a 13-mile (21 km) line between Tappan, New York, on the New York/New Jersey border, and Ridgefield, New Jersey, in 1867. The Jersey City and Albany Railroad acquired the Ridgefield Park Railroad in 1873 and completed the line that same year. At Ridgefield Junction it connected with the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad. The line was pushed a further 13 miles (21 km) north to Haverstraw, New York, in 1879.

References

• Interstate Commerce Commission (1929). Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office.

Further reading

• Ham, John (2017). Along the Old West Shore: Weehawken to Buffalo. Stony Clove & Catskill Mountain Press. ISBN 978-0-9720709-9-7.
• Metzger, Bill (February 2013). "Map of the Month: Heart of the Water Level Route". Trains. Vol. 73, no. 2. p. 38. ISSN 0041-0934.