On Friday, May 10 2019, the last M-2 train set consisting of cars 8522-8523, 8738-8739 and 8736-8737 left MNRR property and embarked on their final journey of 575 miles to Frontier Industrial Corp in Ohio. Crews from New Haven MOE began prepping and sending cars out on November 20,2011. The salvage program lasted 7 years.
The last of the 342 cars built by GE between May 1973 and July 1976, and have served the New Haven Line for 45 years of M-2,M-4, and M-6 vintage were replaced with M-8 cars.
M-2 car fans can still visit pair 8607-8707 at the Danbury Rail Museum, and some M-6 cars have been repurposed as training cars for the MTAPD in Stormville, N.Y.
Mod Note: The above was found on the Metro-North internal MTA Today home page, accessible to employees of the MTA. It doesn't get more from the horse's mouth than that.
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