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Whether or not the trip is worth the price depends on how meaningful the experience is to the individual. I will be flying from the West Coast to do this trip, and staying two nights in NYC, which costs many times the excursion fare. I am retired, and on a limited income. Am I crazy ? You bet ! Anyw...

In the past three years, there have been 3 excursions on the Housatonic Railroad. Danbury RR Museum sponsored one from Danbury up to Kent and return. Mass Bay Railroad Enthusiasts sponsored two excursions, one from Lenox up to Pittsfield, down to Canaan, and back to Lenox, and the second from Canaan...

Dick - Canaan Railroad Days this year will be July 9-18.

Rick - Good to hear that the railroad may be back in Railroad Days. I am sure it would generate a lot of interest, considering the success of the Mas Bay RRE excursions the past two years. On another subject, are you a member of the HRRC forum at Yahoo Groups ? Those guys are always hungry for up to...

I was aboard # 6 on Sept. 9th from Sacramento to Salt Lake City to do the detour through the Feather River Canyon. Had roomette 18 in the 640 car. I never saw an attendant in my car during the entire trip. My bed was made up about 6:30 pm while I was at dinner. When I got off the train, the conducto...

Lately, they seem to be using FL9's very frequently on the run between Wassaic and Southeast. Sometimes there is one FL9, and sometimes two, back to back. What determines if they use one or two ? On a recent trip back from GCT, the conductor made the following announcement at Southeast: "This i...

The MTA reports that one of two 200-ton tunnel boring machines has completed its tunneling under Manhattan for the East Side Access Project, which will provide LIRR service to GCT. The machine bored more than one mile of tunnel stretching from 63rd Street and Second Avenue, on Manhattan's East Side,...

I often take the through train which departs Wassaic at 8:02am on Saturdays. Ridership is excellent. If I don't get to Wassaic Station at least a half hour ahead of time, I may not get a parking space. Sometimes I have had to park at Ten Mile River. By the time the train gets to White Plains, it is ...

Re: Harlem Valley Rail Trail - Amenia, NY

On May 5th, work is scheduled to begin on a realignment of the HVRT where it crosses Rt. 343 in Amenia, NY. They are going to make the crossing at a 90 degree angle to the road, instead of on a slant, as it is now. This should significantly improve safety.

Hi emptjimd ! I used to live in Stratford - moved out last April. My experience on Superliners is that the temperature in the roomettes is never what I would call warm. Even in the Summertime, when the air conditioning was on, I found it a bit cool for my taste. Never had much luck adjusting the tem...

Here are some sample quotes from Sen. McCain: SEN. JOHN McCAIN, (R) Arizona: This has got to be called the great train robbery. It used to be in the Old West that the outlaws took money from the trains. Now the trains are taking money from the taxpayers. SEN. JOHN McCAIN: Look, the reality is that i...

Just a few days before this incident, I was riding the train back from Grand Central to Wassaic, and we were halted for a car stuck in the Green Lane crossing. We had to wait about 45 minutes for a tow truck to remove the vehicle. The conductor said that the car's rear bumper had hung up on the thir...

Construction of the new section of the Harlem Valley Rail Trail north of Millerton (NY) has been tied up in bureaucratic red tape for some time. The Lakeville Journal reports that the major obstacles have now been overcome, and that work is scheduled to begin in Nov. 2008.

The Strates Circus train does the Pittsfield/Danbury round trip every summer, so the HRRC is obviously willing to move passengers. Why not just have MNCR lend a few coaches to the cause, and let the Housatonic RR haul them with their GP-35s ? That way there would be no crew problems for Metro North.

I was on the 2:07pm New Haven bound train from GCT today. It got stuck in the tunnel. Apparently, one of the pantographs popped up, and they couldn't go forward or backwards. Had to wait most of an hour while mechanics were sent out to get it down. We then reversed into the platform at GCT, and chan...