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New York, Westchester and Boston Railway

The New York, Westchester and Boston Railway Company (NYW&B, also known to its riders as "the Westchester" and colloquially as the "Boston-Westchester"), was an electric commuter railroad in the Bronx and Westchester County, New York from 1912 to 1937. It ran from the southernmost part of the South Bronx, near the Harlem River, to Mount Vernon with branches north to White Plains and east to Port Chester. From 1906, construction and operation was under the control of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH) until its bankruptcy in 1935.

Overview

Bronx, New York

NYWB

New York

1912–1937

New York City Transit Authority (IRT Dyre Avenue Line)

4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

A 4-mile (6.4 km) section survives as the IRT Dyre Avenue Line (5 train) of the New York City Subway.

At Jefferson Street near Station Plaza and Halstead Avenue.

Over the Mamaroneck River just west of Jefferson St. and east of the station.

At Mamaroneck Avenue. There is a staircase cut-out in the side of the wall on the east side.

At Fenimore Road and Hoyt Avenue.

Railroad electrification in the United States

IRT Dyre Avenue Line

Arcara, Roger (1985). Westchester's Forgotten Railway, 1912-1937: The story of a short-lived short line which was at once America's finest railway and its poorest: The New York, Westchester & Boston Railway. I & T Pub..

Arcara, Roger (1964). When the Westchester Was New: A supplement to Westchester's Forgotten Railway Journal and Railway Age Gazette. Consisting of reproductions of seven articles about the New York, Westchester & Boston Railway Company from 1912 issues of Electric Railway. Electric Railroaders' Association.

Bang, Robert A. (1987). Westchester County's Million-Dollar-a-Mile Railroad. R.A. Bang.

Bang, Robert A. (2004). The New York, Westchester & Boston Railway, 1906-1946. R.A. Bang.

Harwood, Herbert H. (2008). J.P. Morgan's Magnificent Mistake:The New York, Westchester & Boston Railway. Herbert H. Harwood. Publisher: Indiana University Press.

Additional NYWBRwy information from nywbrwy.com

Franchise History of NYWBRwy facsimile article from NYCSubway.org

NYPress article on NYW&BRwy

Existingstations.com has some details on NYW&BRwy stations

Forgotten New York: New York, Westchester & Boston Railroad: , Part 2

Part 1

Only known video of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway (from 1937)