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YORKTOWN, N.Y. – Last week, the Yorktown Town Board awarded a contract to Clemco Construction & Restoration Inc. for a little more than $476,000 to restore the defunct Yorktown Heights Railroad Station depot in Railroad Park.
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The 420-square-foot depot, a one-story frame structure with deep, bracketed overhangs, was built in 1877 by the New York, Westchester and Putnam Railway. Its two rooms served as waiting and baggage rooms, and the building itself served as the center of town, sitting in the midst of stores and businesses, a school and churches. New York Central Railroad, Putnam Division, acquired the line and station in 1894.
But the ever-increasing popularity of another mode of transportation—the automobile—drove train service out of town. The last train to pull into the station did so on May 29, 1958, four years before freight service was abandoned between East Falls and Mahopac. In 1966, the town purchased it, and the exterior of the depot was repaired in the latter half of the 1970s.
The depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, followed by placement on local and state registers.
According to Tegeder, the depot is the only one of its type on the abandoned line that has not been significantly modified.
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~el Jefe :: RAILROAD.NET Site Administrator/Co-Owner; Carman at Naugatuck Railroad
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~el Jefe :: RAILROAD.NET Site Administrator/Co-Owner; Carman at Naugatuck Railroad
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