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I saw it being "tested" last week. Pulling out of New Haven, the "next stop" signs on my train to Grand Central said "Old Saybrok" and that this is the train to New London.

Just read that these will be capable of 125mph operations. Will be a big improvement over the 80mph MBBs and 85mph Mafersa's, and will hopefully make the trip times between CTrail and Amtrak on the Hartford Line identical.

Maybe I'm missing something. But I don't see any passenger display screens on the outside of the cars. Also, push-pull over DMU is extremely shortsighted, but we've beaten that topic to death already.

I believe the culprit is the Bronx River Parkway bridge, where a girder buckled and is dangling above the tracks. Trains have been suspended both ways all morning. New Haven Line service is suspended between Mt. Vernon East and Grand Central while NYS DOT crews conduct urgent roadway repairs above o...

Someone didn't tell MetroNorth that there was the first-ever postgame fireworks show tonight. The clippers are going out with a fraction of their normal load. Only 210 on the first one to New Haven, which would normally have at least 600 for a sellout crowd. It'll be mayhem at Harlem in about 30 min...

daybeers wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 4:53 pm Pride events too.

Then extra gameday service is needed. 2/3 of the train in question continued on to GCT, too. It's busy now on many of the non-Yankee trains.

Loads in excess of 120% on the Hudson Line today. Service is needed twice an hour at minimum.

There is too much emphasis on end point to end point. What about the peron who has an unreliable car that needs to go Madison - Dalton? Back in NC, the new Piedmont frequency will begin in July, the new schedule will result in a couple of intermediate stops getting skipped on some trains (all inter...

I REALLY hope they don't turn the off-peak semi express trains into locals to Penn. Those are the only tolerable runs on the outer New Haven. Virtually nobody rides off-peak from the stops they skip, anyways.

Is there anything that'd trigger especially high Wassaic Branch ridership? I've seen three trains (two north, one south) with 200 or more people as far north as Dover Plains and Wassaic.

Not sure who's idea it was to place a 9-car set on a nearly empty 3546, and a 6-car set on 1544, which usually gets heavy crowds who commute from CT to places like New Rochelle, Westchester, and Stamford.

More people than I've ever seen on the Wassaic Branch. 315 people on train #949, at Pawling. I imagine many are going to second homes in Litchfield and upper Dutchess counties.

I would argue that it's pretty difficult to get lost trying to figure out where your train is when there's only one track, but maybe I'm overestimating people.

Pretty impressed by the late night ridership. 8 (between LIRR and MNR) trains with ridership in the range of 300-500 at 12:30 AM eastern at various points on their routes.