Yes by the Pompton Plains Station. The tracks are still there, they're just overgrown. As far as I remember, they didn't even remove the grade crossing at Jackson Ave, they just paved over it years back. The rails have only been removed in a couple spots between here and Mountain View.. Behind Town Hall, over by where Pequannock Feed used to be, and one spot by Dorsa Rd. The rest of the ROW is still there. I don't see any reason to do the amount of clearcutting that they've been doing just to rip the rails out. The trail next to the tracks is more than wide enough to get whatever backhoe or front loader they use in there. Especially where they were just going at it by Quick Chek. There's plenty of access from Jackson Ave all the way to Woodland that they could've used without cutting down what they did. They're clearing the ROW.. There's something else going on here.
Yes, they ripped a few hundred feet of track up by PV park, but who's to say that isn't to re-grade the trackbed and replace the ties? It's been out of service for 40+ years, so one would think an overhaul would be in order before returning it to service.. We can hold out hope, can't we?!
And the bike path (which is going to parallel the ROW, basically a paved/lighted upgrade to the trail that's already there), while it has been in concept and wrapped in red tape for nearly 15 years, JUST literally a few weeks ago got approval for the federal grant to build it, with the projected start date sometime in 2012. This work has been going on for months, and there is NYS&W trucks and personnel involved, so one could safely assume that this activity is unrelated to the path.