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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:
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 . FOOTNOTES REFERENCES
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