Comments on: Tuesday Tour of the Harlem Line: Appalachian Trail

By: Roundabout

Roundabout — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:54:41 +0000

I live in Mt. Kisco right now, but I lived in the city for about ten years. This station was my life-saver when I needed a break from the city. Memorial Day through Labor Day the train made three northbound stops in the morning and three southbound stops in the late-afternoon/evening on Saturday and Sunday. When you transfer to the deisel train at the Southeast station you have to tell the conductor that you’re getting off on the AT or the train doesn’t stop. Likewise, when you’re heading back south you actually have to flag the train down or it won’t stop. There are two shelters to the north and two shelters to the south within a days hike (depending on how ambitious you are.) Taking a train up Saturday morning, putting in a proper day’s miles, camping out, then heading back to a Sunday evening train was just GREAT. A station that offers more than just a way to get to work in the morning.

By: mmm

mmm — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:10:34 +0000

should have enabled myself to cancel all expenses and walked this path before my leg went bad as there are some beautiful views….

By: Manhattan Hillbilly

Manhattan Hillbilly — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:31:04 +0000

Love this station! It cracks me up every time I see it. Worth mentioning the train only stops here once a day — and you have to be in the front car. Have never seen a backpacker get on or off, but really want to see it before I die.

Oh, and Pawling is a great little community.

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:41:26 +0000

In reply to Brett. Whoever they got to construct the station probably took their sweet time to milk the project for all it was worth. I'm sure they skip the paint job since not too many people use the station. They day they give it a paint job will probably be the day they finally wash the windows at Goldens Bridge. The windows that have had profanities/slurs/homophobic messages written in the dust for as long as I've been commuting.

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:35:54 +0000

In reply to Shane. Thanks. In going south it is obvious where the trail leads, though north is a little less obvious because you need to cross the street and walk up. There are supposed to be white markers further up on the north side, but I didn't go that far.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:27:46 +0000

Was it obvious where to pick up the App. trail from the train stop?
Great shots btw.

By: Al Cyone

Al Cyone — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:15:51 +0000

In reply to Brett.

I used a handy online calculator to find that, in 2009 dollars, $10,000 from 1991 is worth:

$15,800 using the Consumer Price Index
$14,700 using the GDP deflator
$16,700 using the unskilled wage
$17,500 using the Production Worker Compensation
$19,600 using the nominal GDP per capita
$23,800 using the relative share of GDP

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:18:56 +0000

It’s hard to believe that it actually cost 10k to build! Looks like something I could have built in my backyard for $500! Since I haven’t ridden north of Pawling I’ve never seen the station myself, but it certainly looks like it could use a coat of paint.

Although, that the MTA actually built a bench here is a vast improvement over the set of stairs that they built at Breakneck Ridge on the Hudson Line…