Chris in Rockaway Beach

I know I’m 2 replying 2 years after your post, but yes, the sign is still hanging from the roof of the Mount Kisco station (on the side facing the tracks). The station was refurbished into a restaurant 10-12 years ago and looks pretty good.

Steve,
I too grew up in Mahopac and remember a few of the last freight trains using the ‘Put’ before its demise. My grandparents still lived in Brooklyn and we would pick them up and drop them off at Croton Falls when they would come to visit for the weekend. By the time I was out of high school, the third rail was on the Harlem line up to Brewster North (now Southeast). I do remember seeing the Budd cars on the Harlem near Dover Plains. Too bad the Put and the Goldens Bridge branch are gone, for the area could use the mass transit.

Potrzebie, I wonder how many others here recognize where your screen name is from? They’d be mad not to! ;-)

Oh man, that is pretty awesome! Thanks for sharing!

But hey, here’s something cool — don’t know how much longer this will be up, but right now if you go to Street View on Google Maps to try and look at the old Chatham Station, there’s a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train parked there, blocking the view!

Chatham was also the last stop for a rail line that ran from Hudson to Chatham which shared the last mile or two south of Chatham with the Harlem line. This line later became part of the Boston & Albany line as freight only which became owned by the New York Central. This line now ends at the grain mill just outside of Hudson.