Yesterday evening a CSX Train carrying mainly compacted garbage derailed between the Spuyten Duyvil and Marble Hill Metro-North Stations. Today Metro-North Hudson Line service is a total mess. There main alternative is telling people to drive to stations on the Harlem Line. There is Limited Service (hourly during middays in each zone, half-hourly during rush […]
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Today I had to head up to New Haven for an important special occasion. This is the type of trip I wouldn’t have blogged about normally but with the Metro-North Crash on Friday closing off the entire New Haven Line between Westport to Bridgeport the Train-Bus-Train Transfer that we had to deal with made this […]
Today I attended (along with an estimated 40,000 other people, five times more than Metro-North expected, Didn’t Realize Trains are that popular!) Grand Central’s parade-of-trains. Yesterday I was in the area already had luckily made a round-trip on the Nostalgia SMEE Shuttle train yesterday (on track 1 using R15 #6239, R12 #5760, and R33WF #9306) […]
This post is the sixth (Post 1|Post 2|Post 3|Post 4|Page 5) in a multi-post series about my day wandering down to Midtown Manhattan after Superstorm Sandy when there was no subway service and the only train service to Manhattan was the Metro-North Harlem Line that resumed hourly service after 2pm, all bus service was fare-free. […]
I need to begin this post by saying that Metro-North needs to add more Sunday Service, trains just once an hour on each section of the New Haven Line (A local runs GCT-Stamford connecting to a non-stop express from GCT to Stamford that than runs local to New Haven) these trains were really crowded, I […]
Yesterday I returned from a quick 3-day visit to my grandmother in Syracuse. I thought of taking Megabus at least one way but the train was only $10 more so I took my familiar route up the Hudson and across to Syracuse. I did though for the first time discover (how did I not know […]
Three new rail stations from my recent trip east: Poughkeeps (10 photos), Harriman (32 photos), Newark International Airport (12 photos)
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One new MNR station, photographed today: Hartsdale (16 photos of the station, and 11 of the artwork)