Early photograph of a New York and Harlem Railroad horsecar. New York & Harlem transfer tokens from the American Numismatic Society. I’m not sure how many of you frequent twitter, but I think it seems to be a running joke that every day there is some sort of “national holiday”...
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Every morning I start out my day taking Metro-North down to White Plains. Now one would probably assume that White Plains is the closest train station to my work, but the fact is that it is not. Mount Pleasant is actually the closest, but as it isn’t a regular stop,...
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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 of sorts – timetables, maps, tickets, photos, and news articles – digitize it, and put it...
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[pdf-ppt-viewer href=”http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/1895_harlemdivision2.pdf” width=”600″ height=”500″] Excerpt from Health and pleasure on “America’s greatest railroad.” By New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company Found on Google Books
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