[6][7] The New York, Ontario and Western Railway (NYO&W) had running rights along the West Shore and sometimes stopped at Ridgefield Park.

[9] Northbound near Bogota the parallel NYSW and West Shore lines diverge and continue into northern New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and upstate New York.

In 1866, the Ridgefield Park Railroad (a predecessor to West Shore), was established to create a right of way (ROW) along foot the western slope of the Hudson Palisades parallel to the Hackensack River from Ridgefield Park to Marion Junction, where it could use the Bergen Hill Cut to the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot on the Hudson Waterfront in Jersey City.

[2][10][12][13] It joined the Erie Railroad Northern Branch at Granton Junction near Babbitt, and reached the community of New Durham.

With a similar intention to reach a terminal on the Hudson River, in 1873 it built the Hudson Connecting Railway which ran south to West End Junction, just north of Marion Junction, with access to Erie's Long Dock Tunnel and Pavonia Terminal.

[18][19] In 2015, the NYS&W Bridge 10.73 was slated for replacement due to its poor condition,[20][21][22] but as of 2017 work had not begun.