The average number of passengers per day for the first month (October) was eight hundred and thirty, and the total number twenty-one thousand five hundred and ninety-three ; and for the next month (November) the average number was ten hundred and fifty-five, and the total number twenty-seven thousand four hundred and forty-one. At this time it was calculated that the land taken for the roadway in Westchester County had cost the company, exclusive of agencies and other charges, $185,- 905.02, and also that the grading had involved an expenditure of not far from a million of dollars, which was about three hundred thousand dollars above the cost as estimated by the original lettings in 1847. The first train conductors on this road were J. D. Elliot and H. E. Newell.

Of the many interesting incidents in the early history of the running over the road in this county, none perhaps created more of a sensation than the double accident just above Croton, on the 4th of December, 1851. It seems that the four o'clock afternoon train from New York was stopped by the conductor (Carey) to put off two men who would not pay their fare, and was run into by an engine without cars, and five or six passengers were severely injured. But the five o'clock express train (Morgan's) which followed, having switched off" to the west track, on coming abreast of the wrecked train halted to render assistance, and while so doing was run into by the five and a-half Peekskill train (Nichols), which had also taken the west track, but was driving ahead heedless of danger at the usual speed. Here again others were hurt, some very seriously. The company exhibited on the occasion great concern for the sufferers, and visited with prompt punishment the offending officials.