Here was the story that appeared in the Journal News:
Saying goodbye to a familiar commute
By CAREN HALBFINGER
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: December 8, 2004)
Three hundred passengers, from their 20s to their 80s, briskly walked off one of Metro-North Railroad's oldest trains Sunday morning and race-walked through the underpass at the Bronxville station to Track 1. There they lined up like paparazzi along the platform, readying their cameras to shoot not a pretty young thing, but an old, grey workhorse — the ACMU 1100. They chatted together amiably while waiting for the train to double back on a different track. Suddenly, one of the railroad's newest trains — a shiny silver M7 — rolled into the station. Gasps of pleasure burst out like gunshots from the crowd as these rail buffs snapped frame after frame.
Then, as the ACMU 1100 finally moved south along the new third track, some men barked at each other to step back and called each other names. Some shutterbugs in the phalanx along the track's edge were blocking the views of others as they all jockeyed to get perfect, people-free shots of the moving train.
To be fair, each of these railroad fans had paid $50 for the opportunity to ride on and photograph the train in different and unique settings. The all-day farewell tour organized by Metro-North took the ACMU 1100 on the New Haven Line for the first time, then up and down both the Harlem and Hudson lines.
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On the Hudson Line, near Spuyten Duyvil, you can look south and see the George Washington Bridge. So I pointed this out to him going Northbound and tested him going Southbound. He remembered the name of the bridge and then told me that George Washington is on the quarter and dollar bill. 