MOODNA VIADUCT
Built between 1906 and 1908 for the Erie Railroad’s Graham Line and opened in January 1909, the Moodna Viaduct stretches 3,200 feet across the Moodna Creek valley, rising 193 feet above the landscape.
Its open steel framework was engineered to minimize wind resistance. Built to carry freight around the steep grades and sharp curves of the old Erie main line, the viaduct outlived the railroad that built it.
Erie became Erie Lackawanna in 1960, then part of Conrail in 1976. Today, Metro-North’s Port Jervis Line carries commuter trains across the same steel structure, more than 117 years after it opened.
Photographed with moonlight only. October 2026.