Musings on Station Names
You would think that the naming of a train station would be a rather simple and straightforward process… alas this seems to be far from true. If history has shown us anything, station namings...
Remembering Metro-North in 1986…
Back in February of 1986 I had not yet reached my second birthday… I’m not too familiar with the milestones of an aging child, so for all I know I could have still been...
Tuesday Tour of the Harlem Line: Patterson
When I first began riding Metro-North to the city I was fairly young… and at the time I had always assumed that Brewster North was the end of the Harlem Line. It was my...
Tuesday Tour of the Harlem Line: Purdy’s (and bonus Copake Falls)
Several months ago I wrote about some of the names of the towns located along the Harlem Line, and how they have evolved over the years. Many of the names were taken from the...
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,...