Edgewater Branch

The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad handled passenger and freight traffic from the coal mining region in the Wyoming Valley in and around Scranton, Pennsylvania through northern New Jersey.

While it had a right-of-way along the foot of the western slope of Hudson Palisades that terminated in Jersey City north of Marion Junction, it did not own a line through Bergen Hill.

[9][10] Extensive railyards and car float operations supported the development of industries which dominated the shoreline for much of the 20th century.

[12] The closure of Ford's Edgewater Assembly Plant in 1955 cost the NYS&W one of their primary sources of income.

[22] In 1976, the NYS&W was forced into bankruptcy, after they experienced multiple financial problems and defaulted on New Jersey state taxes, and by that time, the Edgewater Branch was no longer profitable.

[23] In October 1989, the Edgewater Branch was embargoed on the basis of unsafe conditions of the tunnel, where chunks of the ceiling occasionally fell.

[34][25] The Hudson Waterfront/River Road corridor has seen extensive residential and commercial development and subsequent congestion since that time, and further studies of a more comprehensive transportation strategy have been conducted.