Greenwood Lake Line

From Pompton Junction and North to Ringwood and Greenwood Lake




Photo: Wanaquehistory.com Collection.

The line in it's various incarnations ran from Jersey City and north, terminating in Ringwood and Greenwood Lake (Sterling). For our purposes, these views will be from Pompton Junction (Pompton Lakes) and north, stopping at various stations, including, in order, Haskell, Midvale, to the Greenwood Lake main line to Boardville, Monks, Hewitt, Awosting, Glens and Sterling (the latter two on the shore of Greenwood Lake). At Sterling passengers would connect with any of a number of lake steamers that would take them to their final destinations, the assorted hotels around the lake. The Ringwood branch turned just before Boardville and stopped at Erskine and Ringwood. At Ringwood it would connect with the iron mines.

In this section of the site, you will find images of the various locales, the stations, people and railroad equipment.

Heading towards Greenwood Lake, the line would pass the Hewitt Station. This station had been located near what is now the intersection of Greenwood Lake Turnpike and the East Shore Road, West Milford, adjacent to the Long Pond Iron Works site. The East Shore Road was originally the rail bed.




Photo: Bill Trusewicz Collection.



Photo: Unofficial.Net Collection.


Photo: Unofficial.Net Collection.
Further north, the railroad would pass through a section known as the Glens. There the roadbed would hug the east coast of Greenwood Lake until it reached Sterling Forest station, the end of the line.




Photo: Unofficial.Net Collection



Photo: Unofficial.Net Collection

The postcard photo on the right has a 1907 cancelation. At the station, transport by steamer was available to take travelers to their destinations around the lake. The steamer Milford, below, was one of a number of those steamers.




Photo: Unofficial.Net Collection.

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