New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway

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Bond for $ 5,000 from the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad dated May 21, 1902

The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway (NYSW) - also known as Susie-Q or The Susquehanna - is an American rail company for freight transport. The company operates on a route network of over 800 km (500 miles) in the northeastern US states of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

In 1881, the New York, Susquehanna and Western Rail road (NYS & W) was created from a merger of various small railroad companies. The result was a main route from Croxton near Jersey City to the west, which ended shortly after the border between the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania in Gravel Place north of Stroudsburg . In Stroudsburg, the Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad , a subsidiary of NYS & W, joined from 1894 , which led to the anthracite-coal mining area around Scranton and Wilkes-Barre . There the NYS & W owned five short branch lines and from 1896 with the Susquehanna Connecting Railroad another subsidiary with its own route.

Until 1966, the NYS & W also carried passengers, u. a. a commuter service was offered in northern New Jersey.

Due to route closures, the route network gradually shrank to a 96.4 km (59.9 miles ) stretch from Croxton via Little Ferry , Hackensack , Rochelle Park , Paterson and Butler to Sparta with branch lines from Little Ferry to Edgewater ( by the end of the 1970s ) 9.66 km), Hackensack to Lodi (3.86 km) and Rochelle Park to Passaic (4.99 km). The approximately 35 km long section from Butler to Sparta was out of service. The Susquehanna Connecting Railroad also had a 8.04 km long route in Pittston Township near Wilkes-Barre , on which the goods traffic was provided by the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail).

NYS & W filed for bankruptcy on January 20, 1976 . As part of a reorganization under insolvency administration, operations were initially continued independently before an application was made to cease operations on January 2, 1980. Several interested parties applied to acquire parts of NYS & W. The competent bankruptcy court at the United States District Court of the District of New Jersey ruled on May 28, 1980 in favor of the offer of the Delaware Otsego Corporation (DO). For this purpose, the DO founded a subsidiary called New York, Susquehanna and Western Rail way (NYSW) on March 17, 1980 , which on July 14, 1980 received approval from the Interstate Commerce Commission to take over the routes of the previous NYS & W and SC at a purchase price applied for five million dollars. Approval for the takeover was granted on December 22, 1980. The NYSW of the DO had already taken over the operation of the NYS & W in September 1980 on a rental basis and completed the acquisition of the infrastructure by 1982. The previous company New York, Susquehanna and Western Rail Road was liquidated .

Map of the NYSW (Delaware Otsego) route network since 1986

In 1982 the DO acquired from Conrail the routes from Binghampton to Jamesville south of Syracuse (99.3 km) and Binghamton to Utica (154.5 km) with the Fay Street Branch (0.68 km) in Utica. The new acquisitions were organized as the Northern Division of NYSW. Until 1985, the DO also gradually bought the Warwick –Sparta section of Conrail, which is part of the main line of the former Lehigh and Hudson River Railway . At the end of 1986 the NYSW reactivated the Butler – Sparta section. Since another DO subsidiary, Central New York Railroad , agreed trackage rights to the Conrail infrastructure between Binghamton and Warwick, DO was able to create a connection from northeast New Jersey to upstate New York.

The New York, Susquehanna and Western Rail way grew into a regional player in the transport of freight by various modes of transport: NYSW transported containers (including Sealand and Hanjin) as part of a land bridge between the US state of Delaware, the Hudson River and the railroad company CSX Transportation . After losing that role to railroad companies CSX and Norfolk Southern in the late 1990s , NYSW continues to move freight by moving commercial waste and other goods. At the end of 2006, moving construction debris represented the largest portion of NYSW's long haul trips.

Web links

Commons : New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Finance Docket 28098 - The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Company, Debtor (Walter G. Scott, trustee) - Plan of Liquidation (1980-12-22) . In: Interstate Commerce Commission (Ed.): Interstate Commerce Commission Reports, April 1980 - October 1981 . tape 363 , p. 794-807 (English).
  2. ^ A b Edward S. Kaminski: Maywood: The Borough, the Railroad, and the Station . Arcadia Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7385-7234-5 , pp. 9; 119 (English): “When the line was purchased by Delaware Otsego Corporation in 1980, about 38 miles of the original track [of the main line] was in service [...] to Butler. [...] in late 1986, it reopened [the] dormant track between Butler and Sparta. "
  3. ^ Edward A. Lewis: American Shortline Railway Guide (5th Edition) . Kalmbach Publishing, Co., 1996, ISBN 978-0-89024-290-2 , pp. 222-223 (English).