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Tremont (Metro-North station)

The Tremont (also known as Tremont – East 177th Street) Metro-North Railroad station serves the Tremont section of the Bronx via the Harlem Line. It is 7.9 miles (12.7 km) from Grand Central Terminal and is in an open cut at the intersection of Park Avenue and East Tremont Avenue (East 177th Street). Service at Tremont is limited; trains stop every 30 minutes during rush hours, every two hours otherwise. This station is in the Zone 2 Metro-North fare zone.

When Tremont station was originally built by the New York Central Railroad in the late-19th Century, it contained a station house as a bridge over all four tracks. Similar structures were built for the former Melrose Station as well as the former Morrisania Station. The station house was torn down in September 1999 and no longer exists today, but the platforms and staircases leading to the East Tremont Avenue bridge still remain to this day.

Platforms and tracks

The station has two high-level side platforms, each two cars long, reached by stairway from East Tremont Avenue. When trains stop at this station, normally the front two open cars receive and discharge passengers. The west platform next to Track 4 is generally used by southbound trains. The east platform next to track 3 is generally used by northbound trains.

Tremont (horse)

Tremont (1884–1899) an American Thoroughbred racehorse who, according to the New York Racing Association, was acclaimed by 19th Century Thoroughbred Horse Racing historians as the best two-year-old ever bred in the United States.

Background

Tremont was sired by Virgil who also sired the 1876 Kentucky Derby winner Vagrant as well as U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Hindoo.He was trained by future Hall of Fame member Frank McCabe.

Racing career

In 1886 Tremont set a record for the most wins by a two-year-old trained in the United States that still stands to this day. That year he went undefeated in his thirteen starts while setting an earnings record for his age group. The colt dominated his opponents, winning by an average of almost six lengths. Owned by the Dwyer Brothers Stable who were notorious for over-racing their horses, all thirteen of Tremont's races came within a ten-week period. By running him so hard and so often, the colt broke down and never raced again.

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