On a Sunday afternoon in Penn Central's first summer, New York Central RS-3s gather at the Putnam Junction engine terminal in Brewster, NY, to await the Monday morning rush hour. By this time the ... (more)

Like a sparking, clanking, riveted dinosaur, a former New York Central P2b electric leads an inbound Penn Central commuter train through the now-closed 138th Street station in the Bronx. Ex-NH FL9... (more)

Commuter trains bringing people to work in the big city

A busy morning in Harlem.

The waiting passengers at Brewster, NY, prepare to board a Grand Central-bound Harlem Line train on a cold fall morning, as FL9 5042 and its equipment arrive from the Putnam Junction coach yard. C... (more)

On a misty fall morning, a former New Haven RDC now sporting Metro North colors has just departed from the Dover Plains, NY, station in the background, bound for Brewster and a Grand Central conne... (more)

Within a few months after Penn Central took over the New Haven Railroad on 1/1/69, PC moved some of the NH's dual power FL9s to the former New York Central Harlem Line, where they replaced ex-NYC ... (more)

The milepost says that Sunday-only Penn Central train 9030 has 127 miles to go to Grand Central Terminal as it departs Chatham, NY, on the upper Harlem Division with a pair of renumbered ex-NH FL9... (more)

Dover Plains, NY, still had the look of a country branchline station in 1982, when it marked the northern end of commuter service on Metro North's Harlem Line. Leased Amtrak RDC 43 laid over there... (more)

At first glance this is just another M-1 class Budd MU at North White Plains, but the DOT logo on the nose and the vents behind the cab indicate that it is one of the eight prototype dual power ga... (more)

A Metro North train sits at Wassaic Station between runs. The cab car here use to operate on the lines across the Hudson and we can see one of the faded Ms on the other side of the cab door.

A snowy meet for Metro North EMU's in Harlem... An inbound New Haven line train of M8 stock pauses on track 2 at 125th Street station, as a Hudson line service to Croton-Harmon operated by an M7A,... (more)

Snow plow train to keep the line open. One FL9 on each end of the train set.

New York City's first decent snowfall of the season wraps itself around this inbound Harlem line train as it leaves 125th Street station, heading towards the Park Avenue tunnel and Grand Central T... (more)

The storm bringing New York City's first decent snowfall of the season arrived in the early morning hours of Saturday, December 17th. It was still snowing when this inbound Harlem line train pulle... (more)