Tenmile River (Metro-North station)

Infobox Station
name=Tenmile River
style=MNRR Harlem
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image_caption= Tenmile River during the weekend evening commute
address=Sinpatch Road, Amenia, NY.
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other=Dutchess LOOP (Route 10)
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pass_year=2006
pass_percent=0
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zone=10
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The Tenmile River Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of Amenia, New York via the Harlem Line. Trains bound for Southeast which connect to trains for New York City every two hours with direct service to Grand Central Terminal leaving about every 30 minutes during rush hour. It is 80 miles (128 km) from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is approximately two hours, nine minutes.

This station is the first/last station in the Zone 10 Metro-North fare zone.

Tenmile River is named for the waterway of the same name adjacent to the station and is in nearly the same spot as the State School station (named for a nearby institution for the developmentally disabled, now Taconic Developmental Center) which was closed with Penn Central's abandonment of line north of Dover Plains in 1972.

History

North of Dover Plains was Conrail territory in 1981 and was mainly used for freight. After departing Dover, the train would cross the Ten Mile River, which the Indians knew as "Weebutook", and not far after that you would arrive at a small shelter with the sign reading "State School", at Mile Post 78.90. In addition to the few passengers that came to visit the New York State operated juvenile correctional facility, the major amount of railroad traffic was involved the shipments of soft coal on almost a regular basis. On any average day numerous carloads were moved in and empties switched out. Similar to the renaming of the State Facility at Wingdale, refecting the vogue of the era, the State School was renamed the "Wassaic Developmental Center" in the late 1970's

External links

* [http://as0.mta.info/mnr/stations/station_detail.cfm?key=172 Metro-North Railroad - Tenmile River]