Seacacus JCT.

Could you be a bit more specific, i.e. what city & state were you in?

The only "Seacacus"(sic) I can recall from my youth, was the famous Erie railroad yards and hog pens in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Secaucus Junction is in New Jersey. It is the station after New York Penn and before Newark Penn. The Northeast Corridor is on the top level and the former Erie commuter lines are on the lower level. It is a fairly new station, about 15 years old. It is named after Frank Lautenberg (SP?), the former senator from NJ. He was a big rail advocate

Tracks in question used to be a feed from the ConRail yard just to the north/east of the "junction".  The yard is still used as an intermodal transfer site.  The track heading south/west is abandoned.  It used to be a two track like but only one track is still in place and that seems to end at Schuyler Ave in Kearny.  It's an old part of Erie/Conrail line that went from Kearny to North Newark.

Cincytrains, was the bridge you saw just beyond the NJ Turnpike overpass?  If so, the track is the former Erie-Lackawanna Greenwood-Boonton Line, originally the Erie Greenwood Lake Branch.  It was taken out of service by NJT when the Montclair connection was completed.  

The old Erie Greenwood Lake Branch (EL/NJT Booton Line).  The railroad heads from West End to DB draw(what you saw), which was the junction with the Newark Branch, then through North Arlington, over the Passaic River and through the Montclairs.  The line is still in service and electrified in the Montclair via a connection to the Montclair Line at Bay Street.  I was fortunate enough to get a cab ride over the currently abandoned section before service ended in the early years of this century.

Here are some good pictures of the bridge.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/j...s/72157621790071027/

See it every day on the way to work while sitting in the train!

Thanks for the info, I like finding this info out..

NJ Transit operated regular passenger service over this line until a few years ago. 

It is the most recent part of NJ's rail network to be abandoned. 

Rob

How long is a few? LOL I have been passing it every day for over 7+ years and the swing bridge was always open and nothing but freight cars if any east of the bridge.

Was this taken out of service when some new connection was put into place, Montclair connection, or something like that. I also remember some stations were closed because of it. I think I read it in Railpace.

Yes, NJT stopped using the east end of the former Greenwood Lake Branch of the Erie (east of Walnut Street in Montclair) when the line was connected to the former Lackawanna Montclair Branch at Bay Street Montclair.  This was accomplished around 10 years ago, so it has been more than a few years since passenger service ended.  The out of use portion of the line was not abandoned, but was returned to Norfolk Southern ownership via an agreement with Conrail (not sure of the details.

Of course, NS didn't really want this double track railroad through one of the highest property tax areas in NJ, especially since the line only recived a few carloads of freight a week.  Thus, the signals and one track were taken out of service, with the reamining track downgraded to running track status.  Since there was not freight on the line over the WR (Passaic River) and DB (Hackensack River) draw bridges, both of them were removed from service; NJT was not willing to spend the money to rebuild these badly deteriorated bridges, so NS certainly was not.  So, that brings us to the present day, where the line east of DB in the Meadowland is used to store cars, and the line east of Walnut Street is used for local freight - although I'm not sure if that even occurs today.

More pictures of the line:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...Thumbs.aspx?id=52246