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Apparently because of mechanical issues, everyone on train 8852 from Poughkeepsie was transferred at Croton-Harmon to an M7.

Jeff, I saw your post in the other thread. I found it interesting that the highest ridership (by percentage) was for a weekday game, when only one train runs on the New Haven and the Hudson doesn't have a clipper. The weekend runs are usually jammed. I'll see for myself on Thursday, I suppose.

Under Lamont's budget plan, SLE is going to be cut to 7 weekday and 5-6 weekend trains in each direction. Meanwhile, the Danbury Branch will maintain full service despite anemic ridership. I write this watching dead-stop traffic on 95-North in Branford as a train sails by. I'm going to Milford, and ...

Ideally, someone who hasn't taken a train in their life should be able to google "train to Yankees" and see their schedule within a click or two. Instead, they have to use the MTA's awful trip planner (if you do the "arrive by" function, it shows you only trains arriving after th...

Currently (and note that rush hour friday ridership is ~25% less, and trends earlier): Wassaic Shuttle 4949 has 140 people between Patterson and Pawling Danbury Thru 1860 has 105 people out of Grand Central (pitiful, even compared to its typical 150-160) on a maxibomb Danbury Shuttle 1844 (the one w...

They deadhead? Only two thru trains run, and I was under the impression that they came up on the evening Wassaic runs, then did a shuttle round trip, and sat in Wassaic overnight. The yard there is fenced in with a crew base.

I've been taking plenty of notes from the radar site. I happened to be waiting for a New Canaan train when the "Super Express" 3542 that got to Stamford at 1703. The platform was full. Some of the other 35xx runs I don't think are as patronized, but they're not exactly hurting, either. Al...

Wanted to create an actual thread for general observations, rambles, and complaints on Metro-North loads and on-time performance, made possible by https://radar.mta.info/loading . As it stands, the busiest part of the evening rush is the 4 to 5 PM departures, especially on the New Haven line, which ...

Currently 3542 is carrying 305 passengers (AFTER Stamford) on a 5-car set and 3546 has 510 (on an 8-car set.) Any SLE thru-runs would almost certainly need 6-car sets.

The original comment I was replying to specified lots, although I did mention nearby developments in Madison/Clinton. Branford is ripe for more TOD both in the second lot and around the station - there's still a good deal of vacant land near the current developments. Nothing will be built by Guilfor...

Probably as a DMU (assuming Metro-North has DMU's by the time this would ever happen) shuttle with rush hour direct service. Does CT still have that archaic law banning third rail?

For TOD - Old Saybrook has it and their main lot still fills up even these days. I suppose an extra apartment or two could be built in the overflow lot. Westbrook's lot is pretty constrained by marsh and houses. Clinton is already getting it. Madison just had a new apartment building go up less tha...

There’s no place in New London or Old Saybrook to store a train overnight. Storing on the main track isn’t an option. Old Saybrook has a third track that is electrified, and a train sat overnight on it pre-Covid. New London also has a third track, although I don't believe it's electrified yet. If a...

That's a downright laughable amount of service for the price that this thing costs. At a minimum, there should be hourly peak service and bi-hourly off peak service to both Fall River and New Bedford.

I thought I already posted this in here, but they should run it as a branch of the Harlem, Southeast-New Milford. Stops in the mall area, other side of Danbury yard, Federal Road area, Brookfield, and New Milford. I figure it'd be about a 35-40 minute run - 2 hours and a couple minutes from New Milf...