An “Anonymous” reader posted an answer to a question about the old Park Hill railroad station I’d posed in this post:

The tracks were the Getty Square Branch of the Putnam Division of the New York Central Railroad. They started at Putnam junction in Van Cortlandt Park and terminated at Getty Square. The post card shows the lower elevator house as it looked before it was rebuilt after suffering a fire sometime in the 1980s. If you walk down Undercliff, you will see the two stone columns that are in the foreground of the post card. They are at the top stairs that lead down to what is now the parking lot of an apartment building on South Broadway. That parking lot sits partially on the former right of way. If you want to see the rails, just look at the supports for the guard rail.

Another reader wrote to me that he knows where the right of way is and would be perhaps willing to field an archaeologist for a day excursion for me. Perhaps he could be talked into doing it for more folks?