The Life of a Railroad Shop Cat…
Have you ever wondered what a railroad shop cat does all day? I (finally) made a visit to see Turbo, the Naugatuck Railroad’s resident shop cat to see what he had to say about...
An Unexpected Adventure: PeruRail’s Ferrocarril del Sur
As evening descends upon the Peruvian mountainside, I find myself aboard the lone evening Urubamba branch train, where I pepper our train’s conductor, Daniel, with questions. Sitting alongside the cab of this DMU, with...
Legends of the ‘dales – Art on the Harlem Line
For more than thirty years Tom Nussbaum’s Workers and Travelers have adorned the Harlem Line stations of Hartsdale and Scarsdale. Born of the long American tradition of placing sculpted weathervanes atop barns and churches,...
The railroad prints of Joseph Pennell
Every now and again I think back to my time in art school and some of the more interesting classes I attended while there. All students were required to take classes in disciplines like...
Building the Harlem Railroad’s first suburb and branch: New Village and the Morrisania Branch Railroad
The earliest days of the New York and Harlem Railroad were ones fraught with hardship. As one of the earliest railroads in the United States, it was a guinea pig of sorts, a case...
Rules of the road: the Harlem Line in 1878
In my previous story about the Jerome Park Branch, I mentioned that the next few articles would focus on the changes in the Bronx in the late 1800s. Not only is the time period...
Dark horse: The forgotten branch of the Harlem that everyone loved to hate.
The last three decades of the 1800s were an interesting time for railroads running through the Bronx. With the Hudson River Railroad making moves to finally enter the east side of Manhattan, along with...