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The former station building, 2014 Interior of the building. Rail service in Peekskill began on September 29, 1849 with the Hudson River Railroad. [1] The freight depot was the site of a February 19, 1861 visit by Abraham Lincoln who stopped there during his train trip to his inauguration.
The Amtrak Hudson Line, also known as the CSX Hudson Subdivision, is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation and leased by Amtrak in the U.S. state of New York. [1] The line runs from Poughkeepsie north along the east shore of the Hudson River to Rensselaer and northwest to Hoffmans via Albany and Schenectady [2] along a former New York Central Railroad line.
In July 1909, service began between the Hudson Terminal in Lower Manhattan and Exchange Place in Jersey City, through the downtown tubes. [27] The connection between Exchange Place and the junction near Hoboken Terminal opened two weeks later, [ 28 ] forming the basic route for the Hoboken-Hudson Terminal (now Hoboken–World Trade Center ) line.
In 1914 the New York Central Railroad, which the Hudson River had long been merged into, built a new station, the current building, in the Renaissance Revival style. It was placed on metal stilts to allow Main Street to pass over the tracks, eliminating the grade crossing that had been part of the original station. [ 4 ]
Directly west (railroad north) of the station, Amtrak's Empire Corridor services merges with the Hudson Line. [22]: 2 Originally, a wye existed at this station, connecting the current Track 4 with the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge. This was used by Hudson River Railroad and later New York Central trains, however passenger service ended in 1916. However ...
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The current station was built in 1896–97 and designed by Morgan O'Brien, New York Central and Hudson River Railroad principal architect. It replaced an earlier one that was built in 1874 when the New York Central and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the ancestors of today's Metro-North, moved the tracks from an open cut to the present-day elevated viaduct.
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