You can walk along a rail trail for miles without the You don't need a whole lot of hiking know-how or aerobic virility toĮnjoy rail trail. Because railroad grades traverse such varied terrain,Ī walk along them can be just as rewarding as hiking on conventional Passing the occasional building foundation from atop high fills, to deepĬuts through rock. Because the trains went just about everywhere, the sceneryĬonstantly changes along these paths through towns, woods and farmland, Walking along these paths I cannot helpīut imagine how it once looked, and the people whose lives depended on Level paths of black cinder dirt or ballast stone connecting towns and Nearly all the railroads have, of course, been abandoned tracks removed,īuildings demolished. Washington, Blairstown, Oxford, Sparta, Bound Brook, Netcong, Port Morris,Īnd others, were all key locations for the railroads. The hills and valleys of the Northwest New Jersey Skylands. Each had its own characterĪnd personality, and shared one thing in common-they regularly worked Western (NYS&W) Lehigh and New England (L&NE) Pennsylvania Lackawanna and Western (DL&W) Lehigh New York, Susquehanna and Larger companies like the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) Delaware, (Bel-Del), Morris & Essex, Warren, Sussex & Warren gave way to Early steam train lines like the Belvidere-Delaware
Lives focused on the railroad, relying on it for industry, food, employment,Īnd transportation. At one time, nearly every town in New Jersey was servedīy rail, despite the great effort they took to construct. Wonder of how such a bold piece of our area's history could fade into On the old DL&W line through Warren County, I have had an affinityįor exploring the paths left along these rights of way, always in absolute Since my grandfather first took me hiking
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