Lake Hopatcong station

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Lake Hopatcong
Lake Hopatcong Station - December 2014.jpg
Lake Hopatcong station in December 2014, looking west toward Bridge 44.53.
General information
LocationLanding Road
Landing, New Jersey 07849
Coordinates 40°54′15″N74°39′56″W / 40.90404°N 74.66565°W / 40.90404; -74.66565
Owned by NJ Transit
Platforms2 low-level side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsAiga bus trans.svg Lakeland : 80
Construction
Parking96 spaces
Other information
Station code46 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western) [1]
Fare zone19
History
Opened1882 [2]
Rebuilt1911 [3]
Previous namesHopatcong [4]
Key dates
May 1982Station overpass razed [5]
Passengers
201745 (average weekday) [6] [7]
Services
Preceding station NJT logo.svg NJ Transit Following station
Netcong
toward Hackettstown
Montclair-Boonton Line
limited service
 Mount Arlington
toward New York or Hoboken
Morristown Line
limited service
Andover
Terminus
 Lackawanna Cut-Off
Proposed
Former services
Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station
Greendell
toward Buffalo
Main Line Mount Arlington
toward Hoboken
Port Morris
toward Portland or Phillipsburg
Old Main Line Terminus
Lake Hopatcong Train Station
Lake Hopatcong station, Landing, NJ - information sign.jpg
Lake Hopatcong station in 2020
Location125 Ledgewood-Landing Road
Roxbury, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°54′14″N74°39′58″W / 40.90400°N 74.66605°W / 40.90400; -74.66605
Built1911 (1911)
ArchitectWilliam Hull Botsford, Frank J. Nies, and V. D. Steinbach
Architectural styleLate 19th & 20th Century Revivals, Tudor Revival
Part of Morris Canal Historic District (ID16000177 [8] )
NJRHP No.2251; 5503 [9]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPApril 19, 2016
Designated NJRHPJune 23, 2015
February 18, 2016
Location
Lake Hopatcong station

Lake Hopatcong is a commuter railroad station for New Jersey Transit. The station, located in the community of Landing in Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States, serves trains for the Montclair-Boonton Line and Morristown Line at peak hours and on holiday weekends. Service from Lake Hopatcong is provided to/from Hackettstown to New York Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal. The stop is located on the tracks below Landing Road (Morris County Route 631) next to the eponymous Lake Hopatcong. The station consists of one active platform with shelter, and an abandoned side platform. There is no accessibility for handicapped people.

Contents

Service through the Landing area began on January 16, 1854, for the Morris and Essex Railroad, but there was no stop at the shore of Lake Hopatcong. [10] [11] People who wanted to visit the lake had to get off at nearby Drakesville station and traverse from there to the lake. In 1882, after the Central Railroad of New Jersey built the Wharton and Northern Railroad to Charlotteburgh, there was added incentive to bring a station to the Lake Hopatcong area. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, which took over the Morris and Essex tracks, established a stop in Landing in 1882. [2] In 1910, service began by the Morris County Traction Company, an electric trolley railroad. [12]

The Lackawanna Railroad announced on July 15, 1910, that a new station would be built at Lake Hopatcong, just east of the nearby county bridge. [13] The new station opened on May 28, 1911, a new all-concrete structure with two elevators and a complete walkway on the south side of the Morris Canal. [14] Service on the Lackawanna Cut-Off, a new mainline just west at Port Morris, opened on December 24, 1911. [15] [16] The concrete overpass was demolished in 1982, after being condemned in 1978. The station depot on Landing Road continues to stand.

History

1882 DL&W station

A view, sometime before 1911, looking south over the Morris Canal to the first DL&W station at Landing In the background is Landing Road Bridge. Lake Hopatcong prior to 1911.jpg
A view, sometime before 1911, looking south over the Morris Canal to the first DL&W station at Landing In the background is Landing Road Bridge.

The railroad tracks through Landing were first laid in 1854 by the Morris and Essex Railroad, [17] which was extending its line from Newark westward to Hackettstown. The right-of-way parallelled the three-decade-old Morris Canal past Lake Hopatcong, the canal's leading source of water. At 900 feet (270 m) above sea level, the station marked the railroad's highest elevation in New Jersey, which was also the highest point on the canal, which flowed downhill to the Delaware River to the west and the Hudson River to the east. [18] But Landing itself, one of several hamlets that arose to serve the canal's boat crews and mule teams, [19] held no particular promise as a revenue stop, and so no station was built there for about 30 years.

That began to change in 1882, when the Central Railroad of New Jersey opened a station further up the lake and proved that there was money in direct passenger service to a promising vacation spot. [2] Around 1886, [17] the first station in Landing was built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, a CNJ rival that had taken over the M&E in 1868. [20] The small depot and platforms were sandwiched between the tracks and the canal, requiring most passengers to enter and depart via the steel, cable-stayed Landing Road Bridge. [21] This arrangement, however, did allow passengers to move easily between trains and the steamboats that would take them to lakeshore destinations. [19] [20] A steamboat company, the Black Line, was founded that same year by "the same financial syndicate that owned the Lackawanna Railway and the Morris Canal." [17]

The station also prompted one of several manmade reshapings of Lake Hopatcong. In 1891, [17] when the new White Line steamboat company failed to secure the right to ply the canal, it dredged the swampy, non-navigable southern tip to create Landing Channel and erect a pier a block or so away from the tracks. [22]

1911 DL&W station

A 1911 postcard view of the brand-new station. The Morris Canal runs along the southern edge of the Scranton-bound platform. Hopatcong station.jpg
A 1911 postcard view of the brand-new station. The Morris Canal runs along the southern edge of the Scranton-bound platform.

By 1906 or so, several factors led the DL&W to plan a new station. First, the area's summer tourist trade was growing as visitors flocked to the lake. [23] Second, the railroad was preparing to begin one of the most ambitious mainline construction projects in the world: the Lackawanna Cut-Off. This new, 28 miles (45 km) route through the hills of northern New Jersey, designed to slice an hour off journeys to Scranton and points west and north, would begin at Port Morris Junction, less than a mile to the west.

So in 1910, as work proceeded on the Cut-Off, the DL&W began building a new station at Landing. [24] The main building was of native rough stone with cement trimming and a green glazed tile roof. Its oak interior had a ticket office, waiting room and baggage room. Because this depot sat up a hill on Landing Road, perhaps 20 feet (6.1 m) higher than the tracks, the station complex also included long stairs down to the Hoboken-bound platform and elevated walkways with large elevators to transport passengers and baggage. [23] The Morris County Traction Company trolley line took passengers onward to Bertrand Island. [25]

The station itself cost $28,500 (equal to $931,950 today) [26] [ page needed ] and the railroad was said to have spent $75,000 (equal to $2,452,500 today) to build the accompanying structures. [23] The new station opened on May 28, 1911, [14] six months before the first trains rolled on the Cut-Off. [27]

In 1912, the DL&W built a similar station at Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. [25]

The elevated walkways rendered the old bridge completely redundant (its duties for vehicular traffic had already been assumed by a parallel bridge of stone built in 1907), [28] [29] and it was eventually demolished. [30]

In the 1920s, the DL&W's station became the preeminent rail link to Lake Hopatcong, surpassing the CNJ's station at Nolan's Point. But change was afoot: In 1924, the canal was closed, its cargo business long since gone to railroads, and the steamboat dock removed. [17] Within five years, much of the canal was filled with new structures.

During its operation by the DL&W and its successor, the Erie Lackawanna, the Lake Hopatcong station provided transfers between trains using the Cut-Off and those headed to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and Portland, Pennsylvania, via the Old Main line. In 1960, the DL&W merged with the Erie Railroad and the Lake Hopatcong station and tracks passed to the new Erie Lackawanna.

In 1976, the station and tracks passed to Conrail, which soon sold off the stone depot. [31] The overpass was declared unsafe in 1978, the station was declared a safety hazard by Morris County. Plans were made to demolished the aging overhead structure, which would involve new platforms being constructed. [32] The demolition of the structure began in May 1982. [5]

Post-railroad use of the 1911 depot

The stone station building, whose address became 125 Landing Road, served as a real estate office and a hardware store. Next, it was purchased by an interior design business whose proprietors restored the marble floor and other original features. [23] In 2012, the building was occupied by a role-playing games store.

On November 6, 2014, the building was purchased by the Lake Hopatcong Foundation, [33] which aimed to use part of the structure as office and meeting space, and open the rest to the public as an environmental and cultural center. [34] [35]

In 2016, the foundation commissioned a new roof of glazed clay tiles from Lodowici Roof Tiles, the New Lexington, Ohio, company that supplied the building's original tiles in 1911. The preparation for the new roof revealed deterioration in the structure's stone parapets. A grant from the Morris County Historic Preservation Trust funded the $215,000 job. [36] That year, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places and New Jersey's similar state register. [36] [37]

By 2021, the foundation's effort to restore and preserve the building had received a total of $1,129,143 from the Morris County Historic Preservation Trust Fund and two grants, or $150,000 and $254,879, from the New Jersey Historic Trust. That year, the foundation's work on the building was recognized in 2021 with an award from Preservation New Jersey, a non-profit historic preservation organization. [25]

Station layout

Today, the New Jersey Transit station consists of little more than two low-level asphalt side platforms, a small shelter on the westbound side, and a parking lot. [38] A shelter on the eastbound platform was demolished sometime after 2005. [18]

Future service

Since 2008, New Jersey Transit has relaid tracks and undertaken other preparations to restore service to a 7.3-mile (11.7 km) segment of the Lackawanna Cut-Off route between Port Morris Junction and a planned station at Andover in Sussex County. It plans to launch service on the segment in 2025. [39] A further extension to Scranton has also been proposed. [40] Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) has proposed extending service to Binghamton, New York. [41]

Notes

  1. ↑ List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 1.
  2. 1 2 3 Parsekian, Ann; Armstrong, Janice; Bertland, Dennis (June 2012). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ledgewood Historic District". National Park Service. p. 38.
  3. ↑ "Lackawanna's Big Cutoff Completed; New Double-Track Line Cost Millions, Moved Mountains, and Filled Valleys" (PDF). The New York Times . New York, New York. December 16, 1911. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
  4. ↑ Taber & Taber 1981, p. 742
  5. 1 2 "Rail Station Work Begins with Crash". The Daily Record. May 16, 1982. p. 21. Retrieved October 21, 2017– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  6. ↑ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
  7. ↑ "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  8. ↑ "National Register Information System – Morris Canal Historic District (Boundary Increase) (#16000177)". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  9. ↑ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Morris County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. March 23, 2022. pp. 22–3.
  10. ↑ Davis, J.M. "Letter to the New York Chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society" (PDF). The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. p. 8. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  11. ↑ New Jersey Comptroller of the Treasury (1856). Annual Statements of the Railroad and Canal Companies:Morris and Essex Railroad Company. pp. 29–32.
  12. ↑ "Lake Hopatcong in Northern New Jersey". The Evening Star. Washington, D.C. June 26, 1910. p. 77. Retrieved May 1, 2020– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  13. ↑ "New Station at Lake Hopatcong". The Paterson Morning Call. July 16, 1910. p. 11. Retrieved May 1, 2020– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  14. 1 2 "Places on Lake Hopatcong, Part 4: The Train Station at Landing | Lake Hopatcong News". lakehopatcongnews.com. Archived from the original on February 2, 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Cut-Off to Reduce Train Schedule to New York Half Hour". The Binghamton Press. December 7, 1911. p. 3. Retrieved May 1, 2020– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  16. ↑ "Lackawanna's Cut-Off Benefit". The Wall Street Journal . December 29, 1911. p. 2. Retrieved May 1, 2020– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 Balston, Mottel (December 2002). "A HISTORY OF LANDING, MORRIS COUNTY, NEW JERSEY". LandingNewJersey.com. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
  18. 1 2 Savino, Robert E. (June 28, 2005). "Port Morris and Landing". The Lackawanna Cutoff - Then & Now. The Garden State Model Railway Club. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
  19. 1 2 Balston, Mottel. "The Morris Canal in Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey". roxburynewjersey.com. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
  20. 1 2 Kane, Marty (February 25, 2010). "THEN AND NOW: LANDING TRAIN STATION". Lake Hopatcong: Then and Now. Lake Hopatcong News & Review. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
  21. ↑ "Postcard of Lackawanna R.R. Station - Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey". Unknown photographer. Landing, New Jersey: Unknown. c. 1895. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
  22. ↑ Kane, Martin (1999). Hopatcong: A Century of Memories. Arcadia Publishing. p. 36. ISBN   9780752412580.
  23. 1 2 3 4 Kane, Marty. "PLACES ON LAKE HOPATCONG, PART 4: THE TRAIN STATION AT LANDING". Lake Hopatcong News & Reviews. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
  24. ↑ Rutan, Dave. "Lake Hopatcong". DL&W Old Main. Dave Rutan. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
  25. 1 2 3 "Rehab of Former Lackawanna Station in Roxbury Wins Award". TAPinto. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  26. ↑ Taber & Taber 1981
  27. ↑ "Inspects Improvements Completed on D.L.&W". The Reading Eagle. December 21, 1911. p. 27. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
  28. ↑ Inventory, National Bridge (2008). "Structure Number: ++++++++1400073". 2008. Washington D.C.: United States Department of Transportation.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  29. ↑ "The Viaduct at Landing". Unknown photographer. Landing, New Jersey: Unknown. 1910. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
  30. ↑ "The New Lake Hopatcong Station". Unknown photographer. Landing, New Jersey: Unknown. 1911. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
  31. ↑ Yanosey, Robert J. (2007). Lackawanna Railroad Facilities (In Color). Vol. 2: Dover to Scranton. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc.
  32. ↑ Mitkowski, Michelle (April 18, 1972). "'Ugly' Train Station to be Restored". The Daily Record. p. 31. Retrieved October 21, 2017– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  33. ↑ "Lake Hopatcong Foundation | Lake Hopatcong Foundation". www.lakehopatcongfoundation.org. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  34. ↑ "Lake Hopatcong Foundation Purchases Lake Hopatcong Train Station". Lake Hopatcong Foundation. November 7, 2014. Archived from the original on November 13, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
  35. ↑ Redmond, Kimberly (November 17, 2014). "Lake Hopatcong train station will be restored, become non-profit's HQ (historic photos)". NJ Advance Media for NJ.com. Retrieved November 18, 2014.
  36. 1 2 Aun, Fred (October 23, 2016). "Tile Plant Snafu Delays Clay Roof at Historic Roxbury Station". TapIntoRoxbury. TapInto. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  37. ↑ Hickey, Margaret M.; Bjorklund, Beth A. (January 2016). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Morris Canal Historic District (Boundary Increase); (a.k.a. the Lake Hopatcong Train Station)". National Park Service. With accompanying 18 photos
  38. ↑ Adam Moss (January 2 – September 28, 2010). "Lake Hopatcong (New Jersey Transit station)". Collections > The Railroads > Fallen Flag Railroads > Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad · The Railroads > New Jersey Transit stations. Roadgeek Adam via Flickr. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
  39. ↑ "Andover train station delayed again". New Jersey Herald. December 7, 2015.
  40. ↑ "2007-2008 Annual Report" (PDF). New Jersey Association of Railroad Passengers. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 1, 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2010.
  41. ↑ "Poconos train to New York City is on track", "Morning Call", June 9, 2009 http://articles.mcall.com/2009-06-09/news/4387213_1_rail-line-rail-stations-new-york-s-penn-station

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