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The New York, Westchester, and Boston Railroad operated as an electric commuter railroad from 1912 to 1930. It ran from the southernmost part of the Bronx , near the Harlem River to Mount Vernon, New York , where it split. One branch ran north, through eastern Eastchester, New York , northern New Rochelle, New York , and eastern Scarsdale, New York , terminating at the site of The Westchester in White Plains, New York . The other branch went east through Pelham, New York , central New Rochelle, New York , then running on its own tracks located on the New York, New Haven, And Hartford Railroad right-of-way through Larchmont, New York , Mamaroneck, New York , terminating in Port Chester, New York .

Numerous traces of stations and the right-of-way remain including:
  • pedestrian trail through White Plains on right of way

  • Heathcote bypass

  • former Heathcote station

  • former Wykagyl Hills station

  • traces of right of way through Ward Acres Park in New Rochelle

  • former North Avenue station

  • bridge abutment near Willson Woods Park in Mount Vernon

  • former station in Port Chester

  • former station at 180th Street in the Bronx

  • former terminal in the Bronx.


The only portion of the railroad in active use as a railroad is a portion in the Bronx that is the IRT Dyre Avenue Line .


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REFERENCES

  • Arcara, Roger. Westchester's Forgotten Railway, 1912-1937 : The story of a short-lived short line which was at once America's finest railway and its poorest: the New York, Westchester & Boston Railway. I & T Pub., 1985.


  • Arcara, Roger. When the Westchester was new: A supplement to Westchester's Forgotten Railway Journal and Railway Age Gazette. Consisting of reproductions of seven articles about the New York, Westchester & Boston Railway Company from 1912 issues of Electric railway. Electric Railroaders' Association, 1964


  • Bang, Robert A. The New York, Westchester & Boston Railway, 1906-1946. R.A. Bang, c2004.



SEE ALSO

Railroad Electrification In The United States