[2] The line cost $300,000 per mile, unprecedented at the time, earning it the sobriquet "the country's costliest railroad".

[4][5][6] The route travelled west from the Hudson and crossed Bergen Hill where a cut had been excavated for a right of way (ROW).

[7][8] It then crossed the Hackensack to Kearny Point, the tip of a larger peninsula formally known as New Barbadoes Neck, to the Passaic River.

[3] After a boat collided with the Hackensack Drawbridge in 1946 causing severe damage,[11] the through line was discontinued, and the bridge was dismantled.

While the Newark terminal building is still standing and is part of the Four Corners Historic District the trackage and train shed which served it are now the site of the Prudential Center.