Now on the Pascack Valley Lline, Oradell’s Victorian station was originally constructed in 1890 on the former Erie RR’s New Jersey-New York Line..

The Victorian station was a train register station (telegraph call CD), located at the end of the double track from Hackensack.

Many stations on this line are located quite close together, sometimes as close as a mile or less apart in the more densely populated areas. Pre-automobile, turn of the century Manhattan commuters would board steam trains pulling open platform coaches for the ride to Jersey City.

In 1918 commuter trains ran almost every 20 minutes during the morning and evening rush hours. A trip from Oradell to the ferry dock at Chambers St., Manhattan took approximately one hour, not bad considering the number of stops: New Milford, River Edge, North Hackensack, Hackensack (four stops at various street’s stations in the city limits), Hasbrouck Heights (two stops), Wood-Ridge, Carlstadt, and finally Jersey City. Then a ferry trip across the Hudson to the City would complete the commute.

More on the historic Oradell Station - http://www.trainweb.org/rshs/GRS%20-%20Oradell,%20NJ.htm