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Summit Park Station
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What was there:
Single track line, small station. Grade crossing at Summit Park Road, overpass in Camp for the Blind.
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What is there now?
The station has been inactive since about 1940, although there were evidently local freights dropping off mail at the Pomona train station which also served as the post office up to about 30 years ago. The station building has been gone for a long time. The tracks are also gone, but the roadbed is still clearly visible on either side of the curve on Summit Park Road. An overpass still remains at the camp for the blind, which the NJ&NY passed through. Recently, a fence was put up blocking the ROW through the camp (in the direction of New Hempstead), but the ROW towards Pomona is simply blocked from traffic by some boulders and is presumably walkable (though it abuts private property).
An interesting note is a building just before Summit Park Station (now used by a landscaper) that was once a coal bunker. It is visible from Summit Park Road. It's about 4 stories high and looks like a barn. Gene Darvin wrote to me and added:
"The property appears largely unchanged from the 1930s... Only major difference of course is that there is no longer a railroad in front. The siding cut off slightly south (RR east) of the elevator, made a short radius cuve then ran straight up to the building. I don't recall what sort of conveyors took the coal from the bottoms of the hopper cars, but there must have been some type of bucket elevator equipment inside. Trucks could then be loaded underneath or in front by gravity. I would assume that a truck scale was on the property. A dealer had to stock at least three of four screen sizes of anthracite, with names like stove coal (2-4"), walnut, pea (for small hot water heaters), and buckwheat (like gravel) for automatic stokers."
See the reader contribution page for more on this.
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