124 Delivered to New Haven Yard
12 Under Inspection and Testing by Kawasaki Rail Car, Inc.
112 Conditionally Accepted by Metro-North Railroad for Service
7/2/12 Information Provided
More M-8's In Service
A total of 112 M8 cars support the 88 M8s (three 10-car train, five 8-car train sets and three 6-car train sets) operating in regularly scheduled train service as of July 2, 2012.
Customers have the opportunity to ride one or more of the 501 weekly trains (386 weekday and 115 weekend) operating in scheduled New Haven Line service with the 10 M8 train sets. The new M8 trains represent 35.1% of the total New Haven Line main line Mon-Thursday weekday service, 33.0% of the total Friday weekday service, 53.8% of the total service on Saturdays and 56.7% on Sundays.
These trains operate during peak and off-peak service between New Haven, Stamford and Grand Central Terminal.