Early Harlem Line Timetables, and new timetable catalog
Quite a while ago I started up a minor project, what I called the Historical Archives. My goal was to collect as much old paper history of the Harlem Line and assemble a museum...
Tuesday Tour of the Harlem Line: Southeast
Not counting Grand Central, the Harlem Line has 37 different stations. Some of them, like Harlem-125th Street, and Fordham, are shared with other lines, but I still count them in that number. So far,...
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....
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...
Tuesday Tour of the Harlem Line: Harlem-125th Street
If you really want to argue it, you could say that Harlem-125th Street really isn’t a Harlem Line station. Sure, almost every Harlem Line train stops here, but the same goes for Hudson and...