The line opened in 1876 as the Erie Railroad’s Watchung Branch, according to East Orange in Vintage Postcards, and connected suburban Essex County with Jersey City’s former Pavonia Terminal. Meanwhile, trains on the former Orange Branch traveled from a junction with the lower Boonton Line near the corner of Greenwood Lake Street and Highland Avenue in Newark’s North Ward before operating southwest through Belleville, Bloomfield, East Orange, Orange, and West Orange. Subsequently, the private New York & Greenwood Lake Railway proposed operating their own independent commuter rail service on the line, but those plans never came to fruition. In 2004, the Associated Press reported that NJT would not bring service back to the lower Boonton Line because it would cost $72 million for repairs and capital improvements, in addition to a $3 million per year operating cost.
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