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The Harlem Line is an 82-mile (132 km) commuter rail line owned and operated by the Metro-North Railroad in the U.S. state of New York. It runs north from New York City to Wassaic, in eastern Dutchess County. The lower 53 miles (85 km) from Grand Central Terminal to Southeast, in Putnam County, is electrified with a third rail and has at least ...
1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The New York and Harlem Railroad (now the Metro-North Railroad 's Harlem Line) was one of the first railroads in the United States, and was the world's first street railway. [1] [2] Designed by John Stephenson, it was opened in stages between 1832 and 1852 between Lower Manhattan Island to and beyond Harlem.
Southeast station (formerly known as Brewster North station) is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, located in Southeast, New York.It is the terminus of the Harlem Line electrified service, and with the exception of rush hour service, passengers heading to stations further north to Wassaic have to transfer here to diesel powered service.
Melrose. / 40.8257; -73.9154. Melrose station (also known as Melrose–East 162nd Street station) is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad 's Harlem Line, serving the Melrose neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. It is located in an open cut beneath Park Avenue at its intersection with East 162nd Street.
The current station was built in 1896–97 and designed by Morgan O'Brien, New York Central and Hudson River Railroad principal architect. It replaced an earlier one that was built in 1874 when the New York Central and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the ancestors of today's Metro-North, moved the tracks from an open cut to the present-day elevated viaduct.
History. The former New York Central Railroad station house, now the Valhalla Crossing Station Restaurant. Rail service in Valhalla can be traced as far back as 1846, with the establishment of the New York and Harlem Railroad, which installed a station named "Davis Brook," but by 1851 the name had been changed to " Kensico ."
The Harlem River Lift Bridge [1] (also known as the Park Avenue Bridge) is a vertical lift bridge carrying the Metro-North Railroad 's Hudson Line, Harlem Line, and New Haven Line across the Harlem River between the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx in New York City. The average weekday ridership on the lines is 265,000.
toward Chatham. Location. Wakefield station (also known as Wakefield–East 241st Street station) is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad 's Harlem Line, serving the Wakefield section of the Bronx, New York City. The station is located on East 241st Street and is the northernmost stop in New York City on the Harlem Line.