The Stourbridge Railroad Company in Pennsylvania met last month with several eastern Pennsylvania business and tourism officials to discuss the possibility of a passenger train running between Hoboken, N.J. and Honesdale, Pa. (in the Pocono region) on weekends, a 130-mile trip. Honesdale is in northeastern Pennsylvania, surprisingly as close to the Catskills and Route 17 in upstate New York as it is to western New Jersey.
According to a newspaper article posted Wednesday evening in the Wayne Independent in Pa.: “The Erie Railroad conducted the last regular passenger train to New York from Honesdale in 1942.”
The idea is that this region of Pennsylvania would like to increase access to and from New York City, both for business and tourism purposes.
According to the article: “Al Siebold, director of safety and security for Morristown & Erie Railway, Inc., says passenger train service [to and from the New York metro area] is a ‘very viable’ future endeavor, something Wayne County could see in the coming three years.”
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