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How much fuel do the NMRR diesel trains carry? Do they need to fill up on every trip, or just once a day, or less often than that? I'm assuming there's no fuel available in GCT, so the trains into New York need to come in with enough fuel to make it back to their starting point.

I was at a workshop this evening to talk about the new Metro North stations in The Bronx (https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/bronx-metro-north/bronx-metro-north.page" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;). The people there were mostly city planners who were interested in the...

I'm curious about what's going on in this video starting at about 3:40. Why are the gates insufficient to protect the crossing? Why the flares?

I grew up in Westwood in the 70's. At the time, the PVL had about 8 trains inbound in the morning, and 8 outbound in the evening. I'm pretty sure just Mon-Fri. And the locomotives were still in Erie Lackawana livery. I remember walking along the tracks in the stretch where it went through the woods ...

I was driving up I-95 through Larchmont around 2:15 this afternoon when I saw an interesting train coming southbound on the New Haven Line tracks. It was three passenger cars (shoreliners, I think), then a locomotive, then another six or eight passenger cars, then a second locomotive. What's with th...

You said that right in your original post... This is true, but I assumed the person who said that must have not gotten the story straight. I just assumed if it was a railroad crossing, it had to be owned and maintained by the railroad. It still seems rather surprising to me that somebody other than...

Well, it turns out the NYC Parks Department controls the crossing!

More details at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ta-bron ... lFnJHgDAAJ.

Some other arrangement. There's a picture at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... ng_jeh.JPG

The South Bronx Greenway ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Bronx_Greenway ) has a gate-protected crossing with the freight rail lines running through the South Bronx. I saw this message on the TransAlt mailing list just now: I attempted to ride from The Bronx to Queens today via the Randalls Isl...

I'm researching the Julio and Marisol series of ads ( http://secondavenuesagas.com/2012/09/06/a-ride-back-in-time-with-julio-and-marisol/ ) that ran in the subways during the 1990's. I want to write a wikipedia article about this, and need some images. There's plenty of images I can find on the web,...

GirlOnTheTrain wrote:They run them that way and loop them if there's an issue with the cab car.

Today's 7:22 from NRO->GCT is a diesel (as it usually is). But today, the locomotive is pulling the train heading downtown. I've never seen that before. Usually, the locomotives are pushing heading downtown, and pulling on the outbound trip. Any idea why the train is reversed today?

On the new M8 Metro North cars, the automated announcement system often gets confused. We'll pull into New Rochelle, and the thing will be saying we're at Larchmont, or whatever. In the age of GPS being able to tell me where I am to within a few feet, it doesn't seem like it should be very difficult...

As I understand it, they simply switched third rail shoes and ran them on their own power, both systems being 600V DC. I think they were delivered on their own wheels, so it was simply a matter of rerouting a set. Interesting. I assume they had to fabricate custom shoes? What holds a subway shoe in...

Today's NY Times has an article titled, "How Did the Subway Get So Bad? Look to the C Train" ( https://nyti.ms/2rP2RBo ). The article says: More than half a century ago, a 20-piece marching band in green and gold uniforms assembled near Track 37 at Grand Central Terminal to herald the arri...