


In August 2020, amidst the financial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said that it would shut down service on the line in Rockland County if federal bailout money were not available. By 1941, this was reduced to a single weekday trip in each direction. Into the 1930s there had been Erie passenger service from Spring Valley at the end of the Pascack line to Suffern station on the newer Erie Main Line. Part of the line (between Spring Valley and Nanuet) was once part of the main Erie Railroad line from Piermont, New York to Buffalo, New York. This portion of the line has been abandoned and most of the right-of-way has been sold off. The line used to continue north of Spring Valley to Haverstraw, New York. In 1983, after several years under operation by Conrail, operations of the Pascack Valley Line were transferred to NJ Transit Rail Operations. On Apthe Erie Lackawanna was merged with several other railroads to create Conrail. Passenger Timetable for the New York & New Jersey Railroad and Piermont Branch, effective
