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The maps and contemporary newspapers spell it Paulinskill, but the bridge web sites spell it Paulins Kill. It was spelled Paulin's Kill.
DL&W = Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
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shared) "When completed in 1910, it was the largest reinforced concrete structure in the world."
"Built 1908-1911 as part of the 28.5 mile New Jersey Cut-Off." The last train was in 1978, and the tracks were removed in 1984. The state of NJ now owns the right of way. But the only they do is pay for state troopers to try to keep people off of it. [
nj.com, Bridge Hunter] There is
a longer viaduct three miles east of here.
"The Paulin's Kill Viaduct is a reinforced concrete structure, 1100 ft. long, composed of five 120-ft and two 100-ft arches carrying the new double track cut-off of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad across the Paulin's Kill valley....The completed structure will contain 43,000 cu. yd. of concrete and about 500 tons of reinforcement steel....The base of the rail is about 110 ft. above high water and about 120 ft. above ordinary stages." The Cooper's loading is hard to read, but I think it is E50. [
eBook, p66]
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History's Canvas posted
A Lackawanna Railroad passenger train passes over the Hainesburg Paulinskill Viaduct in 1946. |
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Andrew Satkowski posted
Paulinskill/Hainesburg Viaduct along the Lackawanna Cutoff in Blairstown NJ. |
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| DL&W photo taken in 1911 via Bridge Hunter |
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| Geoff Hubbs, Dec 2019, via Bridge Hunter, License: Released into public domain |
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M'ke Helbing shared
Paulins Kill Viaduct seen from the former NYS&W Railroad bed. |
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nj.com
An eastbound freight train crossing the Paulinskill Viaduct en route to Hoboken in March 1952. John Treen, from the collection of Mike Del Vecchio / Tri-State Railway Historical Society
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Metrotrails posted two images with the comment:
Metrotrails Then and Now Series: Historic 1910 image by Watson Bunnel, from the Steamtown NHS Archives, showing the construction of the Paulins Kill Viaduct in Hainesburg, New Jersey, compared to the same scene on our 2021 visit.
At the time of its completion, the bridge was the largest concrete structure in the world.
In the background, Hainesburg Station on the New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railroad can be seen.
M'ke Helbing shared
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Metrotrails
posted two photos with the comment:
Then and Now Series: The Paulins Kill Viaduct in Hainesburg NJ, with the New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railroad's station below, historic image compared to the same scene on our 2019 visit. Unsure of the exact date, photographer unknown.
The Lackawanna Cutoff atop the viaduct is proposed to be reconstructed, and the NYS&W is now the Paulins Kill Valley Trail. The foundation of the station can still be seen in the weeds.
The NYS&W here was originally the Blairstown Railroad built in 1876. It became the main line of the NYS&W which utilized the Blairstown Railroad as a stepping stone in its east-west line from the Hudson River to Stroudsburg completed in 1881. The Lehigh and New England piggybacked on twenty miles of is through this area from 1886 to 1961.
After the 1961 abandonment of the L&NE, the NYS&W called it quits here in 1962.
The Lackawanna's New Jersey Cutoff was completed in 1911, and was abandoned in 1979.
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Bridges & Tunnels
posted six photos with the comment:
The Paulinskill Viaduct is a massive open-spandrel concrete arch viaduct in Warren County, New Jersey. It once carried the Lackawanna Cut-Off line of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W) between Port Morris, New Jersey, and Slateford, Pennsylvania. The high-speed short-cut opened to revenue traffic in 1911 and was abandoned by Conrail in 1979.
There are talks about resuming operations over the Cut-Off for passenger trains on a proposed Amtrak New York City to Scranton route, but for now, this bridge stands unused and deteriorating.
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