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The Wassaic Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Wassaic, New York (part of Amenia) at the northern terminal of the Harlem Line. Trains leave for New York City every two hours, and about every 30 minutes during rush hour. It is 82 miles (132 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately two hours, eleven minutes. The station consists of a single platform, on the east side of the single track line. Metro-North also has a small rail yard just north of the station, to store locomotives and cars used for peak service. This station is the first/last station in the Zone 10 Metro-North fare zone. It is located on NY 22/343 just north of the hamlet of Wassaic.
[edit] Platform and track configurationThis station has one four-car-long high-level side platform to the east of the track. The Harlem Line has one track at this location. [edit] HistoryThe first Wassaic train station was about 1/2 mile south of its current location and was situated in the actual town section of Wassaic. The station operated by New York Central Railroad served the surrounding village area, as well as towns even as far as Connecticut. On March 22, 1972 Penn Central Railroad abandoned service north of Dover, and in 1990, rails were removed from Millerton south to milepost 81.33 which became the northernmost point of the freight operation by Penn Central on the Harlem Line. The name "Wassaic" comes from the Indian word, "Washaick" which means a narrow valley that is squeezed between two hills. The Ten Mile River and the Wassaic station both had to twist and turn around mountains in order to squeeze the track through. Freight service was provided for mainly three industries in Wassaic, the Tri-Wall Container Corporation and Maxxon Mills Feeds. Bordens Milk operated a factory in the hamlet of which there was a side track provided for the purpose of transporting milk to points south. A furnace was located nearby and an early hotel, "The Wassaic House" was erected in 1851, following the construction of the railroad. The physical end of the track is located just north of the current Wassaic yard, at mile post 83.68, there is no track or railroad past that point, but the roadbed which is still visible, is slowly being reclaimed by nature. The Harlem Valley Rail Trail now operates a paved trail over the existing road bed. Some 45.8 miles (35.9%) of track have been removed in two stages following some bitter court battles. Before the station reopened on July 9, 2000[1], Metro-North Railroad rehabbed the tracks and grade crossings that existed north of Dover Plains and moved the physical location of the Wassaic Train station to approximately one half mile north of the old station and constructed a new rail yard facility. The moving of the station to it new location resulted in the re-laying of tracks over the existing rail bed approximately three quarters of a mile where the tracks end. [edit] Former StationsPast Wassaic, the following stations once existed while under control of the New York Central Railroad;
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