69th Street station

69th Street is a proposed interchange station in North Bergen in Hudson County, New Jersey. It would serve passengers on two lines under consideration by NJ Transit, the Passaic–Bergen–Hudson Transit Project and the Northern Branch Corridor Project, the latter of which is an extension of the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail. The station would located at-grade west the North Bergen Yard and Tonnelle Avenue. 69th station would be located just west of railroad right-of-way (ROW) at the foot of the western slope of the lower Hudson Palisades which had once been used for passenger service provided by the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway (NYSW), Erie Railroad and West Shore Railroad. At one time the Erie and NYSW shared a station at Babbitt (below 83rd Street). They both later used the Susquehanna Transfer under the Lincoln Tunnel Approach (at 31st Street). The ROW is now a primary freight corridor for the NYSW Main Line and CSX Transportation (CSXT). The West Shore Railroad line has become CSX River Subdivision of CSX Transportation (CSXT), which also operates former Erie Northern Branch. The CSX North Bergen Yard is at the northern border of Conrail Shared Assets Area (CSAO). The West Shore's former Weehawken Tunnel has become part of the HBLR. The West Shore Region Study was initiated in 1996 by NJ Transit and other stakeholders and examined multiple modal opportunities in the region that had once been served by the West Shore and the other railroads in Bergen, Hudson and Passiac counties. An alternatives analysis report published December 1999 identified three projects: Northern Branch light rail, Bergen Passaic light rail, and West Shore commuter rail, the last of which did not advance. Self-propelled diesel multiple unit DMU trains that meet Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) structural requirements for vehicles operating in mixed freight were introduced in 2002. They were eventually eliminated for consideration the Northern Branch HBLR extension, but determined appropriate for the Passaic-Bergen line. In 2004, NJ TRANSIT proposed the Tri-County Rail Concept Plan, a passenger rail initiative designed to combine existing rail infrastructure, the majority o

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