Lots of photos from Danbury Railway Day
Saturday’s Danbury Railway Day was a great event, and had perfect weather… hopefully you were all able to make it! I know I saw a few people I knew there :D I spent the...
Monthly Archive: August 2010
Tuesday Tour of the Harlem Line: Hartsdale
When it comes to beautiful stations located on the Harlem Line, Hartsdale is definitely high on my list. Scarsdale’s station was built in 1902, and designed by Reed and Stem, in a neo-Tudor style....
4th Annual Danbury Railway Day is this Saturday
Although I mention the Transit Museum in Brooklyn a bit more often, I am also a member of the Danbury Railway Museum. I just figured I’d let you all know that this Saturday there...
Dear Amtrak: I hate you. The contest entry you’ll never see.
If you follow me on twitter, earlier this week I was rather bitter about being disqualified from Amtrak’s contest for no apparent reason. I’ve debated posting about this for a few days, but considering...
Lettie Carson, and Old Posters from the Harlem Valley Transportation Association
Reading all about the history of the Harlem Line intrigues me. It was New York City’s first railroad, chartered in 1831, and an early example of a rail horsecar in the United States. As...
Tuesday Tour of the Harlem Line: Dover Plains and Mount Pleasant revisited
76 miles north of Grand Central lies a station on the Harlem Line called Dover Plains. From March of 1972, until Metro-North resurrected the stations of Tenmile River and Wassaic in July 2000, Dover...