# Talk:Rhinecliff station

It says "Though it stops at Poughkeepsie, only people transfering to other service at Penn Station may board there." I use the station regularly for Metro North, and when I go to a Knicks game, I take Amtrak in to avoid using the subway. (madison square garden is in the Penn Station complex) Is there any verifibility to this?

Amtrak's own schedule for the Empire service says the following:
No local passengers carried [to/from Penn Station] between Yonkers, Croton-Harmon, or Poughkeepsie. Frequent local service is available on Metro-North Railroad.
I'd say it was because of track rights, but given that it is possible for someone to board at New Haven, Stamford, or New Rochelle on the New Haven Line into Penn as a local passenger something else may be at play. Scrabbleship 18:36, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Heh-heh... Amtrak's schedule also says that passengers may board lake-shore limited 2 hours before departure to use the dining services or get settled in early... I've ridden the route a good 10 times and that's NEVER happened! Liars...MartinDuffy (talk) 18:04, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm reading an 1888 map of the Hudson Valley off the "I Ride the Harlem Line" website, and it contains a connecting railroad between Rhinecliff station and the area between Boston Corners and Copake Falls stations on the New York and Harlem Railroad line. I don't know the name of the railroad (NH&CW), but it might be good for an expansion of the history of this station. ---------User:DanTD (talk)  14:26, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

The N is actually part of the NYC marking; it's H&CW for Hartford & Connecticut Western, a later operator of the Rhinebeck and Connecticut Railroad (which was later part of the Central New England Railway). Pi.1415926535 (talk) 15:48, 22 July 2014 (UTC)