11 Facts About Montclair-Boonton Line

Montclair-Boonton Line is a commuter rail line of New Jersey Transit Rail Operations in the United States.

The Montclair-Boonton line was formed when the Montclair Connection opened on September 30,2002.

Trains along the Montclair-Boonton Line heading eastward usually originate at Hackettstown, Mount Olive, Lake Hopatcong, Dover, or Montclair State University, bound for either Hoboken Terminal or New York Penn Station.

Truncated weekend service on the Montclair-Boonton Line began on November 8,2009, with service every two hours between Bay Street station in Montclair and Hoboken terminal, with the train making all local stops.

Service began on September 30,2002 and three stations on the old Boonton Montclair-Boonton Line were closed, Benson Street in Glen Ridge, Rowe Street in Bloomfield, and Arlington station in Kearny.

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The Montclair Branch was an electrified service; however, the Boonton Montclair-Boonton Line was a diesel line.

Three decades after the Erie's Main Montclair-Boonton Line was realigned out of Passaic, New Jersey Transit returned to the plan for the Montclair Connection.

Train service on the Montclair-Boonton Line begins at either Hoboken Terminal, which includes all weekend service, or New York Penn Station.

Bay Street is the newest station on the Montclair Branch portion of the Montclair-Boonton Line, built in 1981 to replace the nearby Lackawanna Terminal, which was becoming a "white elephant".

From this point, the Montclair-Boonton Line follows the alignment of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Boonton Branch.

At Port Morris Junction, the Montclair-Boonton Line turns to the southwest, while the right-of-way continues westward along as the Lackawanna Cut-Off.