Waltz & Reece Cut
 | It has been suggested that this article be merged with Armstrong Cut, Bradbury Fill, Colby Cut, Jones Cut, Vail Fill, Ramsey Fill, Pequest Fill, Lubber Run Fill, Slateford Junction, Wharton Fill and McMickle Cut (Lackawanna Cut-Off) to Lackawanna Cut-Off. (Discuss) Proposed since September 2024. |
Waltz & Reece Cut is the deepest cut on the Lackawanna Cut-Off railroad line in northwest New Jersey. The cut is 0.68 miles (1.09 km) long, has an average depth of 37 feet (11 m), and a maximum depth of 114 feet (35 m).
Located between mileposts 48.3 and 49.0 in Byram Township, it sits on a tangent (straight) section of right-of-way just west of McMickle Cut and just east of Bradbury Fill.[1]
It was built between 1908 and 1911 by Waltz & Reece Construction Company, which removed 822,400 cubic yards of fill material by blasting with dynamite or other methods.[2] The line was abandoned in 1983.
In 2012, a single track was relaid through the cut as part of NJ Transit's plans to restart rail service no earlier than 2021.
References
[edit]- ^ Map of Hopatcong-Slateford Cut-Off, dated September 1, 1906.
- ^ Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1980). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century 1, p. 35. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. ISBN 0-9603398-2-5.