That's good news, maybe Florida will take heed and ad some lines to help offset some of the car traffic, not to mention the construction and long term employment opportunities.

Amazing!  Chuck, I believe the the New Haven stopped commuter service on that division on 1933........mainly because with the subways/ELs and the New York Westchester & Boston, it was redundant.......then the NYW&B went under in 1938.

Wonderful for the east Bronx! I remember there was talk of a Coop City station when I was going to Spellman in the early 70s.

Peter

Wasn't this line part of the 'promise' to the developers of Freedomland? I do know that the local and state governments didn't fulfill the promise of adequate mass transporation to the park.  So down went Freedomland; up went Co-op City and now 50 years later they finally get their stations. 

Chuck.....that certainly makes sense.

Peter

Choo-choo stations planned for east Bronx

Very cute headline from the "Bronx Times"

Gary

In Interesting, I didn't think Metro North had trackage over there, the only rail lines running by coop city are Amtrak as far as I know.....was this part of the old New Haven that was abandoned? The current New Haven line runs up the Harlem division I thought and split at Mount Vernon (I used to live in the Bronx, about 10 mins west of Co-op City, I commuted from Botanical garden on the Harlem Division). Would this require redoing the trackage, or is it in use for other reasons?

Ok, the same trackage is in use now on what was the New Haven Railroad. The New Haven Div. of Metro North begins at Woodlawn Jct. and runs up to New Haven Union Station. At Shell interlocking in New Rochelle, the Harlem River line of the old New Haven Railroad began and ran into the Bronx, over the **** Gate Bridge into Queens and into Penn Station. That line is currently owned and operated by Amtrak. There are agreements in place for Metro North to run trains over Amtrak to Penn Station. They just have not been put into place as of yet. The opposite does take place, in that Amtrak runs over Metro North from Shell interlocking to New Haven. While the Harlem River Branch under the New Haven was 4 tracks, it is currently 2 with a 3rd track in the Bronx and Queens for freight only. So the infrastructure is in place but it will have to hammered out with Amtrak. Currently there are 40 round trips so it can handle more trains. I hope this explains!!

Here's a pic from when there was regular New Haven service along that route:

Here's some info on the the abandoned stations of the route. Look at the data on the Harlem River line.....

http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/bronx.html

Chuck,

   Great post...I haven't been on the forum for a long time until tonight. Good stuff when you can have people bringing up the New York, Westchester & Boston! 

   Happy Holidays!

     Tom 

In an interesting side note, I was just reading that there are hotels being built in the South Bronx, and I am not talking of the hot sheet variety...so maybe, just maybe, both are signs the South Bronx may be coming alive again

Tom.......glad to see you posting again.......looking forward to your 2nd book!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Peter

Peter,

   Thanks for the kind thoughts. Merry Christmas to all...

Tom

Happy to see you back, Tom. Hotels in the South Bronx? Not sure where, but I do know that there is new expansion near Co-op City and the new Trump Golf Course.

Then again, when I left the Bronx in '72 it the "South Bronx" was considered to start around Baychester Ave.  Merry Christmas all!