 There it connects with the former Wilkes-Barre Connecting Railroad; the Wilkes-Barre Connecting Railroad extended from Hanover Township to Hudson, Pennsylvania.In 1976, the Pennsylvania Railroad Wilkes-Barre Branch and the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad main line was taken over by Conrail due to Penn Central and the Erie Lackawanna Railway being converted into Conrail, with trackage rights assigned to the Delaware and Hudson Railway.The D&H acquired the majority of the PRR Wilkes-Barre Branch and the Scranton to Binghamton trackage of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western main line (which contains the Nicholson Cutoff) in the early 1980s and combined it with part of their main line from Binghamton to Schenectady, New York to form the new Delaware and Hudson South Line, the D&H main line continues in existence now running from Schenectady to Montreal.