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The Warwick Valley Railroad was organized March 8, 1860, by a group of local dairymen and business owners led by Grinnell Burt (1822–1901) as a means of connecting the mainline of the New York and Erie Rail Road at Greycourt, New York, southwest to Warwick, New York. It opened in 1862 and was operated as a branch of the broad-gauged Erie.
The first incarnation of the Warwick Railway was formed by charter in 1873 as the Warwick Railroad, with authorization to build from a connection with the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad (NYP&B) in Cranston, Rhode Island, to the coastal neighborhood of Oakland Beach, Rhode Island. [2]
But the coming of the Warwick Valley Railroad in 1862 changed that. It connected to the Erie Railroad's Main Line, which ran through the center of the county on its way to New York and other major cities, providing a market for the farmers around Warwick, particularly the nearby Black Dirt Region. Half of the district's buildings were built ...
Following a two year hiatus, St. Patrick's Day parades are returning to the Hudson Valley. Check out when local parades step off.
The railway operates 43 miles (69 km) of track and interchanges with the Norfolk Southern Railway in Middletown and Campbell Hall, and the New York Susquehanna and Western Railroad in Warwick. [11] A New York State Department of Transportation grant of $750,000 was expected in fall 2007, and an additional $2 million was slated for 2009, to ...
Warwick is a town in the southwestern part of Orange County, New York, United States. Its population was 32,027 at the 2020 census . The town contains three villages ( Florida , Greenwood Lake , and Warwick ) and eight hamlets ( Amity , Bellvale , Edenville, Little York, Wisner, New Milford, Pine Island , and Sterling Forest ).
A New York City map that displays the terminus of various railroads, including the NYS&W at Edgewater, circa 1900. In 1880, investors from the original NJM regrouped and reorganized the company as the Midland Railroad of New Jersey, with Hobart serving as their president, and the company regained their finances by serving New Jersey industrial firms. [10]
Greenwood Lake is an interstate lake approximately seven miles (11 km) long, straddling the border of New York and New Jersey. It is located in the Town of Warwick and the Village of Greenwood Lake, New York (in Orange County) and West Milford, New Jersey (in Passaic County). It is the source of the Wanaque River.