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Update on the Highbrook Avenue Bridge of the NYW&B in Pelham September 2017 Just wanted to inform you of the current situation. -The Village of Pelham has legally adopted parkland status for the bridge and most of the surviving NYW&B the right of way. The Friends of the Highbrook Highline, w...

Hi - I think we have mentioned earlier the US Army diesels loaned to the New Haven after the 1955 floods. There were 20 locomotives, some were the Alco MRS locomotives with B- + numbers and some the EMD MRS locomotives, just four numbers. I was seeking a numerical list of the Transportation Corps lo...

NYW&B THIRD STREET STATION IN MT. VERNON IS BEING DEMOLISHED THIS WEEK October 14th -- Passed the old NYW&B station on Third Street, Mount Vernon today. The construction machinery is crumbling the station, which is now half demolished. For decades it has sat unused, but the graceful lines of...

UPDATE 9-2016 ON NYW&B HIGHBROOK AVENUE BRIDGE -Would like to let NYW&B fans and supporters know that we have finally succeeded in having the Highbrook Avenue Bridge of the NYW&B placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Friends of Highbrook Highline, ably led by Pelham's S...

Hi All Ye NYW&B Railfans- Update on the NYW&B Highbrook Ave Bridge and associated surviving roadbed of the New Yotk, Westchester and Boston in Pelham NY. We reported earlier that the ROW had been saved from development, and designated a park by the Village of Pelham. As of March 3, Village o...

NYW&B Railfans -- Happy to report to you that the old NYW&B concrete bridge over Highbrook Avenue in New Rochelle has been saved. After a five year struggle by local residents and NYW&B railfans, the Village of Pelham board voted Oct. 20 2015 to dedicate the site as parkland, protecting ...

Past posts related how the Highbrook Avenue Bridge , a massive structure of the late New York, Westchester and Boston Railway, was in danger of being torn down by the Village of Pelham. A five year struggle by local citizens to save the venerable structure., organized as the Highbrook Highline (goog...

Hi Tom -- I'm not sure of along the track, but Dave Peters has a lot growing in his yard in Wallingford. Best wishes Roger

-HOPE rises. New Elections in Pelham. Susan Mutti, one of the energetic leaders of the Highbrook High Line preservation group was just elected to the Pelham Village Board. We now have a more sympathetic governmental body. This is essential, because the old NYW&B right of way in Pelham is owned b...

Hi - -- -just an update. The bridge still stands, crumbled a few more pieces of surface concrete. The Highbrookhighline group celebrated the 100th anniversary of the NYW&B with a champagne party for neighbors underneath the arch . People from the NY Highline and the Sierra Club have endorsed the...

-Curious about the date when electric headlights first used on NYNH&H locomotives and Multiple Unit Cars. -what types of lights were used? Any data on voltage wattage, type of arc or bulb, who manufactured the lamps etc. -I have read that c. 1910 there were still many oil lamps being used. I wou...

-One of the striking features of photos of the MP54 Mu cars is the big headlight box. I would like to know more about the lights. I have read that prior to 1910, a lot of locomotives were still using oil lamps. So -- -when were electric lights first put on the P54 MU cars? Were these innovative? -wh...

pbass - -With all respect, your breathless answer contains so many points of view that I am unable to respond to it. -Putting the NYW&B on 600v. operation was really considered as a possibility after 1937. -The original plan for the New York and Portchester RR, the predecessor of the NYW&B, ...

Hi Noel and Henry -- Do you recall the proposal of 1936, which was first proposed by the bondholders of the road, which would have reequipped the NYW&B with new cars built by Budd, stainless steel, with pantograph for operation north of the Harlem River, but small enough in dimensions, that they...

-The Modjeski & Masters study was received by the Pelham Village Board. It is posted on the Village website under Boston & Westchester Site Committee. It is a good and thorough engineering study, although it does not addres a minimal fix-up short of complete restoration. -The rough cost esti...