Mount Vernon freight yard
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http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:860164575
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Photographer (pht): Brown, Harry F.
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Mount Vernon freight yard
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reformatted digital
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View of New Haven Railroad freight cars and catenary construction in Mount Vernon, New York, freight yard. There is a New York, Westchester & Boston Railway viaduct in the background [Note: the New York, Westchester & Boston Railway was a NHRR subsidiary in Westchester County, New York, with 2-track branches that ran from Port Chester and White Plains, New York, to a junction at Columbus Avenue in Mount Vernon, New York. It ran as 4 tracks to a connection with the Harlem River Branch (Signal Station 8) in the Bronx, terminating at Harlem River. All built as a high-capacity railroad with 11,000 volt AC electrification for multiple unit car operation. It opened in 1912, was abandoned in 1937 and scrapped during the World War II years in the 1940s.]
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40.911508, -73.828246
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