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Showing posts with label New Haven Branch Line. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Haven Branch Line. Show all posts

Monday, April 26, 2010

Public Service Commission Couldn't Find Marshall's Corners in 1909

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Marshall's Corners once was an area in the Town of Pelham near the Marshall Mansion known as Hawkswood on the mainland near the City Island Bridge.  Marshall's Corners was a stop on the horse railroad where the Pelham Park Railroad once joined the City Island

Friday, April 9, 2010

The Closing of the "Eastern Railroad" of the Westchester Model Club, Inc. in the Pelham Manor Depot in 1953

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I have written before about the Westchester Model Club, Inc. that once ran a massive model railroad inside the old Pelham Manor Depot before the demolition of that station on the New Haven Branch Line to make way for I-95 during the 1950s.  See Tue., October 13,

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Apparent Effort in 1884 to Develop Portions of Pelham Neck as "Villa Sites"

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Shortly before efforts increased to develop a new "Pelham Bay Park" using lands located within the Town of Pelham in the 1880s, there were a number of initiatives to develop residential hamlets in the area.  Perhaps the best-know such area was Bartow-on-the-Sound

Friday, February 20, 2009

Train Schedule for the New Haven Branch Line Through Pelham Manor in April 1886

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.The New Haven Branch Line once carried passengers through Pelham Manor where there stood a little Depot at the end of the Esplanade on land now covered by I-95. The commuter schedule for the so-called Harlem River Branch line periodically appeared in New York City

Monday, January 28, 2008

1884 Burglary and Gun Fight at the Pelham Manor Depot

Please Visit the Historic Pelham Web SiteLocated at http://www.historicpelham.com/.Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.The population of Pelham grew quickly after the Civil War. With development came problems, particularly as so-called “tramps” found the area enticing and hitched rides to Pelham on trains running on the New Haven Main Line and the Branch Line. Before the Village of