Wireless Connection.
A pair of NJ Transit 3 section LRVs - 112 and 115 - (Kinki Sharyo, 1999-2004) are seen making their station stops at Silver Lake Station on the Newark Light Rail. The keen viewer will notice that the crossover between the two staggered platforms does not have overhead wires; this crossover was not installed for use by the light rail, but rather for Norfolk Southern freight trains! The Bloomfield Extension of the City Subway branch was built along the former Erie Railroad's Orange Branch, with infrastructure and operating agreements allowing NS to continue to serve remaining industries on the branch west of Franklin Ave. Nowadays freight operations on the branch have ceased, with the branch and much of the former New York and Greenwood Lake's Boonton Line being abandoned east of the Montclair Connection, which was completed in 2002 and merged the Montclair Branch and the Boonton Line into the Montclair-Boonton Line.
