Abandoned Railroad trail - Andover, NJ

The Lackawanna Cut-Off is a railroad line that was built by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W) between 1908 and 1911. When it opened, the Cut-Off was considered a "super-railroad", a state-of-the-art rail line, built upon large cuts and fills, and which included two large concrete viaducts that allowed for what was considered high-speed travel at that time. The line was part of a 400-mile main line between Hoboken, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York. The Cut-Off ran west for 28.5 miles from the south end of Lake Hopatcong in New Jersey, about 45 miles west-northwest of New York City — to the Delaware Water Gap in Pennsylvania. The Cut-Off remained in continual operation for 68 years, through the Lackawanna's 1960 merger with the Erie Railroad to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, and then into Conrail in 1976. Conrail ceased operation of the Cut-Off in January 1979 and filed for abandonment of the line in 1983, citing its excess east-west routes. It removed the track in 1984.
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