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Start Over Collection Harry F. Brown Papers, 1908-1933, 1959, 1964

View of 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 with 2-track branches that ran from Port Chester, New York, 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 (SS8) 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 1912, was abandoned in 1937 and scrapped during World War II], [ca. 1920] Box 6, Folder 139

  1. University of Connecticut -Archives and Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center
  2. Harry F. Brown Papers, 1908-1933, 1959, 1964
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