Talk:River Subdivision (CSX Transportation)

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Merge proposal

I propose creating a single article, West Shore Railroad main line, to document the full history of that line, including all abandoned segments. The following articles would be merged into it: River Subdivision (CSX Transportation), River Line (Conrail), Selkirk Subdivision, and West Shore Subdivision. Mackensen (talk) 22:58, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support: One well-written article would be a vast improvement over four disconnected articles. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 03:36, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Seconded. --Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 12:42, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support I'm a strong proponent of writing the articles that make the most sense and cover the broadest length of the line as practical. Subdivisions are not necessarily the same divisions we should use. Sometimes they coincide, but othertimes we should be discussing a larger rail line instead of arbitrarily dividing it. This is one of those cases. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 19:18, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious about River Line (Conrail), only part of which (the Weehawken Tunnel from Weehawken Terminal) was part of the proposed main line article. The West Shore did not go into Hoboken or Jersey City. Djflem (talk) 22:18, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Djflem per our article and the employee timetables I've seen, what Conrail called the River Line ran up to Selkirk. Can you please elaborate? Mackensen (talk) 22:22, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But the West Shore Railroad main line terminated in Weehawken. It did not run south to Hoboken or Jersey City, as did Conrail's River Line did. Djflem (talk) 22:34, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, under Conrail the south end of the River Line was CP Waldo. I believe that's ex-New Jersey Junction Railroad, later the Weehawken Branch under CSX, and now the right-of-way for the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail. We don't need a separate article to cover the Conrail period. Mackensen (talk) 23:19, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that is true. But you would re-direct the Conrail period article to the new article even tho that would be untrue/incorrect?Djflem (talk) 17:03, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]