Waltz & Reece Cut
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
- ↑ 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 Search this book on
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