Main Line (NJ Transit)

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Main Line
A Main Line train led by a GP40PH-2B at Ramsey.
Overview
Owner	NJ Transit Rail Operations
Locale	Northern New Jersey and Hudson Valley, New York, United States
Termini	Hoboken Terminal Suffern
Stations	18
Service
Type	Commuter rail
System	New Jersey Transit Rail Operations Metro-North Railroad
Operator(s)	NJ Transit Rail Operations
Rolling stock	F40PH-3C/GP40PH-2/ALP-45DP/PL42AC locomotives Comet V/Multilevel coaches
Daily ridership	9,160[1]
Technical
Line length	95 mi (153 km)
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map Legend Port Jervis Line to Port Jervis 30.6 mi 49.2 km Suffern Yard Piermont Branch 30.5 mi 49.1 km Suffern NY NJ border 29.1 mi 46.8 km Mahwah (limited service for MNRR) Route 17 27.9 mi 44.9 km Ramsey Route 17 26.5 mi 42.6 km Ramsey 24.6 mi 39.6 km Allendale 23.5 mi 37.8 km Waldwick Yard 23.2 mi 37.3 km Waldwick 22.1 mi 35.6 km Ho-Ho-Kus 20.9 mi 33.6 km Ridgewood 20.2 mi 32.5 km Ridgewood Junction BCL via Fair Lawn 19.4 mi 31.2 km Glen Rock–Main Line Route 208 17.7 mi 28.5 km Hawthorne New York, Susquehanna & Western RR Passaic River River Street 15.6 mi 25.1 km Paterson I-80 Erie Main Line South Paterson Boonton Branch G.S. Parkway Newark Branch US 46 12.2 mi 19.6 km Clifton 10.6 mi 17.1 km Passaic 9.3 mi 15 km Delawanna Route 3 Route 21 Lyndhurst Draw (Passaic River) 8.2 mi 13.2 km Lyndhurst Route 17 7.6 mi 12.2 km Kingsland Harrison Cut-off Kingsland Tunnel I-95 / N.J. Turnpike Western Spur Upper Hack Lift (Hackensack River) BCL via Fair Lawn I-95 / N.J. Turnpike Eastern Spur Northeast Corridor 3.5 mi 5.6 km Secaucus Junction former alignment New York & Greenwood Lake Boonton Line Morris & Essex Lines/M&E via Hackettstown Bergen Tunnels 0.0 mi 0 km Hoboken Terminal Hudson River This diagram: view talk edit

The Main Line (or Erie Main Line) is a commuter rail line owned and operated by New Jersey Transit running from Suffern, New York to Hoboken, New Jersey, in the United States. It runs daily commuter service and was once the north–south main line of the Erie Railroad. It is colored yellow on NJ Transit system maps, and its symbol is a water wheel.^[2]

The Bergen County Line splits off the Main Line just west of the Secaucus Junction transfer station and rejoins it at Ridgewood. Trains on both lines are push-pull, powered by diesel locomotives (ordinarily on the west end of the train).