Lines in Operation Today
Much of the EL's extensive commuter railroad routes in New Jersey and New York remain in service, under operation by New Jersey Transit's train operations. New Jersey Transit's Hoboken Division, including the Main Line, Bergen County Line, Pascack Valley Line, Morristown Line, Gladstone Branch and Montclair-Boonton Line (which includes the Lackawanna Cut-Off, currently being rebuilt to Andover, NJ and is slated to re-open in 2014), comprises former EL lines. Metro-North's Port Jervis Line is the former main line between Suffern–Harriman and Guymard–Port Jervis. From Harriman to Guymard, the Port Jervis Line runs along the former Graham Line, a high-speed freight line.
Other portions remain in service as freight lines, particularly in New York, west of the last still-active passenger station at Port Jervis, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Most former EL trackage was sold to Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) as part of the Conrail split.
The former mainline between Hornell, New York, and Meadville, Pennsylvania, is operated by Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad, through lease agreement with Norfolk Southern Railway. The section of former mainline between Binghamton and Port Jervis is operated by Central New York Railroad, a subsidiary of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad (NYS&W), through lease agreement with NS. The former Northern Division is operated by NYS&W between Binghamton and Syracuse, while the Utica Branch from Chenango Forks to Utica, New York, is derelict due to washouts and little traffic. Most of the route eest of Youngstown was abandoned before 1980 in favor of parallel former PC lines. Short portions of the original western line continue to operate as various short line carriers. One section from Mansfield, Ohio, to Ashland, Ohio, operates as the Ashland Railway. Another short section connects a General Motors facility in Ontario, Ohio, with NS tracks in Mansfield. A section between Lima, Ohio, and Elgin, Ohio, operates as part of R.J. Corman Railroad's western Ohio lines. As of May 2010, a 12-mile section between Elgin and Glenmore was being removed and sold for scrap, at the discretion of the Allen County Port Authority.
The former DL&W main line between Scranton, Pennsylvania and Binghamton is now owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway, replacing a portion of the Delaware and Hudson Railway, while other former EL trackage in Pennsylvania is operated by the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad.
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