The New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad ran along one side of Baychester village. There was a railroad station stop at the intersection of DeReimer and Bassett Avenues along Pelham Bay Park. It was called the Baychester Station.
Eventually the station was no longer used for passenger stops, and an iron/steel works factory was built on the platform foundation on the neighborhood side of the tracks.
Here are some exciting explosions the station experienced: June 4, 1900: The Baychester railroad station exploded in the early afternoon. The cause of the explosion was three barrels of gasoline consigned to the Westchester Country Club which was stored in the freight room in the rear of the ticket office. The ticket agent, Edward Whitehead, was severely burned but was dragged out of the burning building. Fishermen and others awaiting trains formed a bucket brigade to put out the fire. The fire was so hot that passing train cars blistered and had to be revarnished.
Oct. 24, 1903: At dawn, a twenty-five car train was passing Baychester Railroad Station when a brakeman noticed that a coupling on the fourth car from the read had broken, causing the last three cars to separate from the rest of the train, on a decline. The brakeman notified the engineer who applied the brakes, when the three separated cars slammed into the train. The engineer, when he recovered from the concussion of the explosion, was able to stop the train. The jolt caused explosives in one of the separated cars to explode. The explosion shook walls and broke windows as far away as City Island. Boathouses on Long Island Sound within one-half mile of the explosion were destroyed. The fire department was unable to save the burning cars, but worked with a bucket brigade to save the roofs of nearby buildings from sparks. The way list showed no evidence of explosives being on the train, but the official investigation results states that ten kegs of black powder exploded.
May 21, 1908: Don't mess the the union. An overpass bridge was erected for foot and vehicle passage, and was located at what is now the New England Thruway overpass over the tracks in Baychester. The overpass bridge was erected with open-shop laborers, much to the dismay of union laborers. The union was going to express its disagreement with the use of scab laborers. At dawn, the day after the overpass construction was completed, the union set off 50 pounds of dynamite and brought the structure down. This was just one of the many bridges that the union exploded in short time. On Oct. 11 1913 George E. Davis, alias George O'Donnell, confessed to wrecking twelve of the bridges built with non-union labor.