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Did NYC issue a "Passenger Train Train Consist" book in the 1960 and is it possible to get any copies?

For a while one Brewster commute run carried a bar car (more were added in the late 60s) --- a converted heavyweight dining car which I believe was #1597.. In the same period there were a couple of Poughkeepsie based through commute runs to & from GCT.* Were there any bar cars on those trains? I...

Does any one have (or has anyone seen) a photo of a 3500-series passenger-equipped F-3 in the "cigar band" paint & letter scheme?

Another comment: I located from the NYCHS a commuter ckub car floor plan for one of the other guys in the Stamford CT O Scale club. I'll see if I can find it or if the person I located for still has it. His O scale models are gorgeous and look spectacular behind his P-2 motor

PAul, one of the three cars (99?) I don't know the number) was used on the Hudson Div. I was outfitted for use either as an MU trailer or a locomotive hauled consist, and operated in service on both kinds of consists. It was painted and lettered in the MU car scheme. I saw it in service occasionally...

Back in the mid 1960s I used to see late night mail train coming northbound on the Hudson Div. I presume it departed from the US Postal center on the West side line, ran up the west side, and continued up the Hudson. I recallthat I'd see it going through Tarrytown around 1:00 AM. According to an ETT...

Very interesting.... Additional comments That proposal was the first to replace the Metropolitan opera on 7th Ave which was only 30 years old at the time. Apparently the opera community was never happy with that opera house. The opera house that got built was not a second proposal but a third! The &...

My wife and I were having lunch one day recently in "Locali", the very good restaurant in Mt. Kisco station (Note: those station-to-restaurant conversions aren 't all good --- this one is) , and it occurred to me the the Harlem has now been electrified for 36 years, since 1984 --- which is...

I did not know that

What's the current status of this? ................ (Item from 2016) "The bar once again will be open on the New Haven Line of the Metro-North Railroad. Bar cars, phased out in 2014, will be making a return to the line, according to people familiar with the matter. “The Connecticut Department o...

But so far no responder seems to know where the RS-3s were used between their delivery in July 1951 and their assignment to "kill steam" on the Harlem in September 1952

I presume you mean the Century and NE States were combined west of Buffalo after the Dec 1967 last run, yes? Here are a couple of other question about the Century near the end: 1. The observation car Sandy Creek had not been running on the train for quite a while --- replaced, I think , by Wingate B...

The fondly remembered fleet of RS-3s that dominated the Harlem Division on the 1950s and 60s all had Alco Builder's plates dated July 1951 (according to a couple of items in an old notebook of mine from that era). However, it's well known that steam operation there continued until September 1952.** ...

I got it from Ron's Books [www.ronsbooks.com]. Quick and reliable service

Well folks, I just acquired the book --- published last year --- From Gotham to the Berkshires - New York Central's Harlem Division by John Ham. It contains many good photos from every era. And wouldn't you know, one is a 1954 aerial photo of the station area in Mt. Kisco before any relocation was d...