MP 63.66 The L&NE crossed the Delaware River over to
New Jersey at Portland, Pennsylvania. - eastward view, October 1, 1961 -
William T. Greenberg, Jr.
Having just descended the steep grade into Portland,
L&NE No. 301 with an eastbound train rattles over the bridge to the New Jersey
side of the river at Columbia. The bridge crossed at
a fairly high elevation in order to clear the tracks of the New York,
Susquehanna & Western Railroad, which ran along the opposite bank. This bridge (masonry 1885
- new steelwork 1908 ) would be dismantled during May -
July 1966. - westward view, July 1,
1934 - Richard S. Loane
MP 64.3
Columbia, New Jersey, was across the river from Portland. The
L&NE skirted the north side of town and crossed over the NYS&W
track in its descent from the river bridge to its connection with the
NYS&W, approximately one-and-a-half miles eastward at Hainesburg
Junction. In this scene, viewed from south of the NYS&W's Columbia
Station, the L&NE mainline can be seen on the distant trestle. (Prior
to the planning and construction of Route I-80, the NYS&W's old New
York - Butler - Stroudsburg Division ran through the Delaware Water Gap on
the east bank of the river and crossed over into Pennsylvania northeast of
Delaware Water Gap, PA, a short distance eastward of the present Route I-80
bridge.) - northward view, July 8,
1937 - Howard E. Johnston
L&NE No. 703 closes the distance from the
Delaware River to the connection with the NYS&W at Hainesburg
Junction. Off to the far right the mountain prominence on the NJ side of the
Delaware Water Gap looms above the scenery. - northeast view -
William T. Greenberg, Jr., collection
Having barely departed Hainesburg Junction, westbound L&NE No. 306
spews out a pulsating column of billowing smoke as it hammers its train up the
grade to Columbia. The rear of the train is still on the Paulinskill River
bridge. The DL&W New Jersey Cut-Off's Paulins Kill viaduct at Hainesburg is barely discernable on
the horizon to the left of the locomotive. - northeastward
view, July 6, 1940 - Richard H. Young
After crossing the river and passing through Columbia,
the L&NE crossed the Paulins Kill on a single span of skew, riveted,
through, truss bridge in sight of the junction at Hainesburg (the L&NE
interchange yard and NYS&W freight house are visible through the truss in
this view). - eastward view, September 30, 1962 - William T.
Greenberg, Jr.
A westbound L&NE train picking up interchange
traffic from the NYS&W awaits clearance to depart
Hainesburg
Junction on its way to Pen
Argyl. - eastward view, June 23, 1940 - Richard S. Loane
MP 66.1 The L&NE mainline ran
into the NYS&W at Hainesburg Junction. In this scene
taken from the L&NE mainline and two-track interchange yard, what
remains of the NYS&W abandoned mainline to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, runs
behind the
freight house/train order station. - eastward view, October 1, 1961 - William T.
Greenberg, Jr.
Hainesburg Junction was a short distance south of the
DL&W's Hainesburg Viaduct. In this view taken from the NYS&W, the
junction with the L&NE is visible beyond the freight house. The train
order board behind the freight house is to signal L&NE trains. - northward view,
October 1, 1961 - William T. Greenberg, Jr.