MELGAR posted:First picture shows the former New Haven Railroad main line (now Metro-North New Haven Division) where it crosses the Byram River – the state line between Port Chester, New York (on the left) and Greenwich (Byram), Connecticut (on the right). Note catenary and support towers built by NHRR around 1906.
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MELGAR;
Never got to ride the New Haven Branch, but did frequent the Harlem line for several years and on the way north, I usually noticed where the NH branched off from the Harlem (somewhere around Woodlawn if I remember correctly). There were some pretty impressive catenary towers shortly after the split, but I never saw the pantographs in use. Do you know if the cat towers in that area were also from 1906 and do you know where the MN trains started using the overhead power???
Thanks.