Those of us that are old enough to remember "The Put," New York Central's long defunct Putnam Division, may have some interesting memories.
I grew up near the Cross County Shopping Center section of Yonkers, NY and was maybe a mile or two away from the Put in its waning years.
While in grammar school my school bus would get held up every now and then by short freights at the Mile Square Road grade crossing.
More common than that, I would play little league baseball at Cook Field, now called Redmond Field. Usually, I would be out in right field and in-between moments of boredom, I would notice RS-3's pulling short freights upgrade in the woods just north of Dunwoodie.
Funny to still find pieces of rail around all these years later, not to mention the occasional spike and pieces of coal.
Tom