Metro North White Plains-Electric or Diesel

I will be moving to White Plains soon and I am having trouble getting an answer to a Metro North related question:

When a Metro North train stops at or just passes through the White Plains Metro North station, is it electric or diesel powered? The academic in me is intensely curious so many thanks for any help you can give me in answering the question.

AHR

Just about every train stops at White Plains Station, 90% are EMU's(M-3's/M-7's)some are diesel powered.
There are a few EXPRESS trains that skip the station stop at White Plains.
You can get the entire Harlem Line Schedule as a pdf file from the MTA site.

I believe the only trains that run on electric (third rail) through White Plains are M.U. trains (M-3s or M-7s). The push-pull trains (locomotive-hauled coaches) are running on diesel power through White Plains until reaching 125th st in Manhattan.

think I ran out of face palm pictures ?? all are MU except the thru trains going to or from wassaic.

Ok, so in plain English: Look at a timetable - if it starts in Wassaic or Wassaic is the final destination it's diesel. If the train goes to/from Southeast or North White it's electric.

There's an exception to this rule. 509 and 534 consistently runs with maxi bombs for godonlyknowswhy....

I believe the only times that diesels run through WP are during the rush hours...someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong

I don't believe that's true, I've been on through trains both in-and-outbound during the off-peak

TDowling wrote:I believe the only times that diesels run through WP are during the rush hours...someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong

943 is the only off-peak diesel that runs through White Plains on the weekday. There are also a couple of them on weekends going in. I think only 1 going out in the afternoon though.

DutchRailnut wrote:think I ran out of face palm pictures ?? all are MU except the thru trains going to or from wassaic.

Wow. Way to answer a perfectly valid question...

Yes, as previous posters have said, most are electrics. Third rail ends at Southeast, so north of there, diesel power has to be used. Most of MN's diesel fleet has electric pickup shoes too, so they can run on 3rd rail into GCT.

If you ever see a train, it's pretty easy to tell if they're electric or not. All diesels have a discernible locomotive and cars, while the electrics will look like a bunch of cars moving along without an engine.

Hope I've been helpful!

Here are some pics

Diesel:

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Electric:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M7_(rai ... iv_hts.JPG

Or

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1/M3_( ... Harmon.jpg

DutchRailnut wrote:think I ran out of face palm pictures ?? all are MU except the thru trains going to or from wassaic.

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Dutch, original poster is a new member and obviously not a railroader. Observe the golden rule, please.