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Is this new book out and if so where can you get it? At the NHRHTA Show in CT yesterday there were a few New York area book dealers and nobody had it

Tom

Grogan mentions in The Coming of the New York & Harlem RR that at one time four tracks were used at the station. I've never seen a photo showing all four, but all of the old photos of the station platforms that I've seen clearly show room for four tracks. There's also a book It Happened in Old ...

I didn't believe this until I checked old timetables and indeed track 5 existed in the 30's and 40's at least from substation no. 9 to NW. I don't think it was considered a main track as it was apparently not signaled and use was governed at least in 1948 by the signalman at NW. Another thing that ...

If you have (or can get) the book The Coming of the New York and Harlem there is a photo or two of the station --- at least one from track level and one from street level. BTW I would say it was more than your typical "suburban station" --- a good sized brick building. It was south of the ...

I have to say this discussion amuses me a bit since some M2-4-6's are likely to be in service for a while to come --- much as some New Haven "washboard" MUs remained in service until some time in 1976, about 3 years after the first M-2s debuted. Planning for an "M-2 wake" this ea...

Jeff Smith wrote: Who's going to stand for three hours? I'm not familiar enough with what's in Amtrak's fleet, but I'd guess Amfleets? would do for that distance.

from what iv heard from a retired engineer that maybrook used to be a pretty fast route since its farily straight in most sections Well . . . I don't know about "pretty fast" but I will tell you the predominate speed limit was 40 mph during the New Haven RR era. I guess that was pretty re...

This isn't a Metro North subject, but anyway . . . Glad to read these comments on the Danbury dink, which i remember well and rode several times when growing up in Danbury in the 50s. First let me comment (humorously) that I was once told (by a conductor) that to be absolutely precise the word "...

The oldest equipment I personally experienced that had 3-2 were the round-roof MUs dating to 1926-1931. The earlier clerestory roof MUs dating to 1914 may have also but since I never rode those I will leave it to somebody else to comment on. I don't believe any NH cars other than MUs had 3-2 seats b...

Well it seems likely that it is somewhere where the tracks are quite close to the river, because of the undermined catenary support. Maybe somewhere around where Perry Ave. crosses the tracks just south of the Merritt? I know the river was put into a man-made channel through there after the '55 flo...

Could it be a view looking north near the north end of the tunnel under Wall Street in downtown Norwalk? If you look closely just to the left of the catenary support in the foreground you can see what looks like the side of a plate girder bridge, which would be the bridge over the Norwalk River at ...

The October, 1955 flooding, much less, but bad enough coming only two months after Hurricane Diane, was caused by Hurricane Hazel which went up the Hudson Valley and into Canada. That's a very unusual path and there was serious loss of life and destruction in an area that is not accustomed to that ...

I was on a fantrip in Oct 67 that went to West 30th St but not onto the High Line proper. (BTW The same trip did the Port Morris rat hole and the Put to East View. What a spectacular rare mileage day!!! When you consider this was 3 1/2 months before Penn Central it may well have been the very last N...

chnhrr wrote:Tom you’re probably right. That should have read October 1955 and not October 1, 1955. Here is a picture at Norwalk (photo courtesy Life Magazine).

chnhrr wrote: STAMFORD - OCTOBER 01, 1955: New Haven Railroad line commuters at train station waiting for buses to take them to Norwalk after floods ravaged the area and knocked out service further up the line.