Putnam line - Classic Trains Magazine

A couple of things.  I recently discovered there will be two new books, The Old Put by Joe Schiavone and Forgoteen Railroads of Westchester by Otto Vondrak.

RE your last post,  passenger operations ended in 1958, not 68.  The line was kept intact for freight into 1962 because it was a good "high and wide" route into New York.   After that it began to be dismembered a few miles at a time, as local freight customers ceased, on approximately the following schedule:

Lake MAhopac-East View  1962

Carmel-Lake Mahopac 1969

Putnam Jct.-Carmel 1970

The Bronx-East View 1976

I am not sure of all those dates, most of them are estimates.