NJT/MN Football trains run again for 2010

This Morning in Stamford, CT #4607 was leading with Cab Car #7029

Last night in Fairfield, the train was ALP-44 4424 leading and Comet V cab-car 6016 trailing. Came in about twenty-eight minutes late.

October 17:

South Norwalk:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ottomatic77/5200007690

Stamford:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ottomatic77/5200007822/

Nice pictures as always Otto. What type and brand of camera do you use?

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6195/1554973.jpg
Caught in Bridgeport 8:07 this morning.

This morning I saw it in Stamford, CT arriving and leaving the station with ALP46 #4616 leading and ML Cab Car #701(?)...sorry forget the number of the Cab car.

Train2009 wrote:This morning I saw it in Stamford, CT arriving and leaving the station with ALP46 #4616 leading and ML Cab Car #701(?)...sorry forget the number of the Cab car.

The cab car was 7016. I saw it in Rye.

Clean Cab wrote:Nice pictures as always Otto. What type and brand of camera do you use?

Thanks! I shootwith a Canon EOS Elan7, I usually shoot Fujichrome Provia or Sensia.

Was out on Sunday, caught the train at West Hven, New Haven, Westport and Greenwich... Photos to come!

Since they reduced the three round-trips to one, does anyone know what the ridership is like? Where the figures might be posted on the MTA site? Thanks.

This Morning the Football train had ML Cab Car #7039 on the west end and on the east end ALP46 #4628, saw it in Stamford, CT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teSXWuJV01U

Tommy, I thought they reduced it to two, not one. Although one may be more than enough.

Jeff Smith wrote:Tommy, I thought they reduced it to two, not one. Although one may be more than enough.

It was reported around the end of last season (iirc) that it would be reduced from 3 trains (2009) to 2 trains (2010). But I believe because of the round of MTA service cuts, it was further reduced to 1 train for 2010.

The current schedule shows just one round-trip.

Train 3137 dpt New Haven at 9:04AM and arr (by connection) at the Meadowlands at 11:42AM.

After the game the connection dpts Meadowlands Sports Complex at 4:48 PM, with Train 3148 shown dpting Secaucus Jct. at 5:31 PM and arr New Haven at 7:50PM.

Tonight was the first time I ever got close to a NJT double-decker (ashamed to say)! At about 8:30 tonight there was an incredibly long train idling at New Haven.

Just out of curiosity, (a) is the demand really so large for so many cars on the train?
and (b) there were many people taking the train to GCT at around that time. Why does the NJT train deadhead instead of acting as a revenue train to Penn Station?

milkyoreo27 wrote:Tonight was the first time I ever got close to a NJT double-decker (ashamed to say)! At about 8:30 tonight there was an incredibly long train idling at New Haven.

Just out of curiosity, (a) is the demand really so large for so many cars on the train?
and (b) there were many people taking the train to GCT at around that time. Why does the NJT train deadhead instead of acting as a revenue train to Penn Station?

The MN football trains used to be revenue NJT trains west of Penn Station NY in 2009, or at least that was the plan for 2009. I had not heard that that has changed for 2010. But it certainly could have.