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The Beacon Line's western terminus is a short distance south of the Beacon station. [8] The line heads south parallel to the Hudson Line for a short distance, then turns eastward to cross over the Hudson Line via a bridge. Between the Hudson and Harlem lines, the Beacon runs a winding route, visible from many highways in Dutchess County.
Beacon station is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad Hudson Line located in Beacon, New York. The station has three tracks, with one island platform and one side platform. The station has three tracks, with one island platform and one side platform.
Station Line Municipality County Former railroad Opened Notes Ansonia Waterbury Branch: Ansonia: New Haven, CT: New Haven: Appalachian Trail Harlem Line: Pawling: Dutchess, NY: New York Central: April 1, 1990 [4] Built by Metro-North Ardsley-on-Hudson Hudson Line: Irvington: Westchester, NY: New York Central ‡ Circa 1896 Beacon Hudson Line
The railroad bought the Beacon Line right-of-way in 1995 for nearly $4.5 million and once considered using it as an east-west link for its Hudson and Harlem lines. Technically, the Beacon Line was ...
The Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad was a railroad in Dutchess County, New York, United States.Its line ran 58.9 miles (94.8 km) northeast from the Hudson River in Fishkill to the Connecticut state line near Millerton.
Another connection to the Beacon Street line was provided at Washington Square; streetcars came from Brookline Village along Washington Street and turned west on Beacon Street. This line was later extended north on Chestnut Hill Avenue and west on Commonwealth Avenue to Boston College and was the predecessor of the 65 bus route.
The current Danbury station is a short distance away, and sometimes Metro-North stores its trains on the tracks behind the station between runs. The museum's collection of older cars is on the tracks in the yard's interior. A grade crossing on White marks the eastern terminus of the Beacon Line kept in reserve by Metro-North for possible future ...
Towner's was a station on the Harlem Line of the New York Central Railroad (now Metro-North Railroad). It was 58 miles from Grand Central Terminal. The station dates as far back as December 31, 1848 and was closed when the New York Central merged into Penn Central in 1968. [4] [5] No station structures remain at the site.