Wassaic (Metro-North station)

Wassaic
Train departing the station, seen from its entrance road to the south
Location	Route 22, 0.6 miles (0.97 km) north of the Hamlet of Wassaic Amenia, New York
Coordinates	41°48′53″N 73°33′44″W / 41.8147°N 73.5623°W / 41.8147; -73.5623Coordinates: 41°48′53″N 73°33′44″W / 41.8147°N 73.5623°W / 41.8147; -73.5623
Line(s)	Harlem Line
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	Harlem Valley Rail Trail
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	10
History
Opened	1857; 160 years ago (1857)
Closed	March 22, 1972; 45 years ago (1972-03-22)
Rebuilt	July 9, 2000; 16 years ago (2000-07-09)
Services
Preceding station   Metro-North Railroad   Following station Tenmile River toward Grand Central Harlem Line Terminus   Former services   New York Central Railroad State School toward New York City Harlem Division Amenia toward Chatham

Wassaic is a Metro-North Railroad station that serves the residents of Wassaic, New York (part of Amenia) as 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 side 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 northernmost station in the Zone 10 Metro-North fare zone. It is located on New York 22/343 just north of the hamlet of Wassaic.

The first Wassaic train station was about a half-mile south of its current location and was situated in the actual town section of Wassaic. The station operated by New York and Harlem Railroad, and later New York Central Railroad served the surrounding village area, as well as towns even as far as Connecticut. 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. In 1968, the railroad merged with longtime rival Pennsylvania Railroad to form Penn Central Railroad, and thus the station and line became property of the newly merged railroad. On March 22, 1972 Penn Central 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.