The milepost says that Sunday-only Penn Central train 9030 has 127 miles to go to Grand Central Terminal as it departs Chatham, NY, on the upper Harlem Division with a pair of renumbered ex-NH FL9s leading a string of ex-NYC commuter coaches. Passenger service here ended in 1972 with a cutback to Dover Plains, and this part of the ancestral NYC Harlem Line was abandoned a few years later.
The three biggest passenger carriers - Pennsylvania, New York Central, and New Haven - merged to create the ill-fated Penn Central, whose passenger losses and poor service led to the formation of Amtrak and state-owned commuter lines.
