NYW&B Westchester Avenue Station — Attraction in New York

The old New York, Westchester, & Boston Railway once serviced what we would today consider suburban commuter trains for roughly 25 years. Running out of Grand Central Station in Manhattan, and once servicing the states of New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, the NY,W,&B saw low ridership and was decommissioned by 1940. Some of the steel infrastructure used to build the rail line was actually melted down and used to make weapons and machinery for the U.S. Armed Forces during WWII. It's interesting to note that the Dyre Avenue Line servicing the IRT#5 train is a remnant of that old railway. The Westchester Avenue Station house is a century old reminder of a bygone era in NYC transportation history. With the proposed Metro-North Penn Station link set to reestablish commuter service along the Eastern edge of The Bronx, one can only hope the city puts up money to rehab the once...

This c. 1912 landmark, one of a few New York Westchester & Boston Railway (NYW&B) stations still standing, should be preserved, renovated, and re-opened as a trackside railfan...

I've been near this place. I wish I could go on one of those kinds of trains. Only been on the subway. Can't wait to...